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Training

With over a decade of experience providing care at home in Gloucestershire for those who need it, Bramble Home Care has built up the knowledge and expertise that comes with ensuring the highest quality care is delivered by properly trained staff. Our training is not only available to our carers but everyone in the health and social care industry and beyond, so please get in touch to find out how we can help.

Keep up with CPD

Keeping up with the training requirements of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and ensuring you or your team maintain the right skills to perform at the highest level in your role can be challenging. Utilising the skilled Bramble training team and booking onto one of the many training days available will help you tick off those crucial hours towards maintaining CPD. 

Flexible options

Whether you're a self-employed health and social care worker looking to maintain your skills, a business looking to book private training for your team or one of Bramble Home Care's care staff, every member of the health and social care industry is welcome to attend Bramble Home Care training sessions. We offer flexibility with private courses or places on existing training days available to book now.

Gain new skills

If you work in health and social care you will already know that there are multiple facets to everything we do, requiring some general but also some very specific skills. If you are looking to take your career into a new direction by gaining new skills, or if you are a business with a specialist team, we’d love to help you to gain the all-important knowledge you need.

Growing course list

We are proud to support the training and development of our internal team too, which means that soon enough, we'll be offering even more training courses to grow your knowledge and to meet the changing needs of our clients.

If you don't see the training course you require, that's no problem. We'd love to discuss the courses you need so we can continue to expand our offering.

Prevention & Management of Violence & Aggression (PMVA) Training

This SafeCert-endorsed course covers the principles and practical measures that should be taken to increase safety in the workplace. While this course is most widely utilised by staff in the care industry, this essential training is applicable across a range of public-facing industries, offering enhanced safety, teaching workers to diffuse situations involving aggression and violence, and better equip staff to safeguard their wellbeing in the workplace.

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Across two learning units you will:

  • Understand the need for the prevention and management of violence and aggression

  • Understand the laws that govern the prevention and management of violence and aggression in the workplace

  • Learn how to conduct a risk assessment

  • Understand the assault cycle and the effective use of communication

  • Understand the principles of the use of restraints

  • Know the psychological and physiological risk factors of physical intervention

  • Be able to apply physical interaction skills safely

Guided Learning Time
14 hours

Total Qualification Time
22 hours

Number of Units Covered
2 units

Accreditation Level
SafeCert Level 2

PMVA training being delivered to care workers
Care workers listening to their trainer
PMVA training demonstration

First Aid / Basic Life Support Training

Our First Aid and Basic Life Support Training course aims to provide candidates with the knowledge, skills and confidence to handle a range of first aid situations. The course uses a mixture of practical skills and theory-based discussion which culminates in a short quiz to consolidate knowledge.

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During the course you will cover:

  • Actions to be taken in the event of an emergency occurring at their place of work

  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation methods, including use of an AED

  • Provide first aid to an unconscious casualty (recovery position)

  • Provide first aid to a choking casualty

  • Describe the correct actions to take with regard to control of wounds and bleeding

  • Describe the correct actions to take regarding a range of other first aid situations

Refresher Period
Every 3 years

Maximum Group Size
12

Accreditation Level
Level 2

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Care workers and Bramble staff discussing training
Trainer deomstrating how to ensure clear airways on dummy

People Movers' Moving & Handling Training

Candidates are taught in our training facilities in either the Staverton or Cinderford office both of which are equipped with an adjustable bed, hoist, slings, slide sheets and staid aids. This allows candidates to put the theory into immediate practice thereby solidifying their knowledge and ensuring we send out staff that are safe to practice. The course culminates in a short quiz to consolidate knowledge.

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Across two learning units, you will cover:

  • The legal aspects of manual handling

  • The body and what can go wrong during manual handling

  • Principles of safe moving & handling

  • In-house policy and assessments

  • Practical training and competency assessment of using a hoist and stand aid

Refresher Period
Every year

Maximum Group Size
12

Accreditation Level
Level 2

homecare nurses learning to use a hoist
Care worker helping an elderly woman to move safely using a frame
Bramble trainer delivering training to home care workers

Medication Awareness Training

Health and social care professionals who take part in this training will gain the knowledge and skills to safely supervise/assist clients with their medication. It's so important with declining health conditions that the medication support is in place for service-users so that they can maintain and improve their health, and not risk it due to medication-related mistakes. The course culminates in a short quiz to consolidate knowledge.

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Across two learning units, you will cover:

  • Documentation and the administration of medication

  • How medication should be stored

  • Different types of medication and how they work

  • Knowledge of the common adverse reactions

  • The seven guidelines of administration of Medication

  • Controlled drugs

  • Drug errors

  • Disposal of medication

  • Implementing policies, procedures, competency checks and audits

Refresher Period
Every 2 years

Maximum Group Size
12

Accreditation Level
Level 2

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Bramble trainer demonstrating correct way to deliver chest compressions
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