Rewarding Adult Care Staff while tracking professional development
ABOUT US
We’re incredibly proud of the work we do here at the Academy and want to make sure your teams are getting the most out of our platform, it’s their passport to progress.
The Care Professional Academy is a not-for-profit company, with an overall mission to professionalise the care sector, reward Care Professionals for their commitment to their role and their CPD (Continuous Professional Development); raise the sectors profile as a great place to work and to change the culture and attitudes and promote Care staff across the sector as Care Professionals.
Social Care providers can sign up to the Academy to support and enhance their recruitment and retention strategies, whilst progressing a positive culture across their whole organisation. Through the provider portal organisations can view your teams’ certificates, receive training reminders for refresher courses, run reports and have evidence at their fingertips for governance and compliance at a micro and macro level. As well as offer an effective employee benefit scheme across their whole adult social care workforce.
Would you like to know more about how the Care Professional Academy can support, develop and reward your workforce? To find out more about what we do, watch the video below.
RECRUIT | RETAIN | ASSURE | GROW
The provider portal offers a clear overview of staff training, both in detail and as a whole. It helps manage certificates, analyse skills gaps, and provides evidence for compliance for Local Authority monitoring meetings, internal audits and CQC inspections, as well as best practise.
The training report makes it easy to track staff training, ensuring compliance. It alerts providers and Care Professionals when certificates are about to expire from 60 days and counting down at incremental stages, giving plenty of time for refresher courses supporting governance and compliance. Plus, option to upload competency assessments related to training certificates to support skills, abilities, confidence and knowledge.
Providers use the Care Professional Academy to enhance their recruitment & retention strategies through their recruitment adverts, citing employee benefit scheme and retention of supporting financial wellbeing of their staff through rewards scheme, offering Care Professional Rewards with savings and discounts on:
- Supermarkets
- Holidays
- Fashion & retail
- Wellbeing
- Mortgage Service
- EAP – Employee Assist Programme
- Healthcare Insurance (available to purchase)
- Days out
- Leisure activities
- Healthy eating subscriptions
- Gifts & experience days
- Restaurants & coffee shops
- Car & Van hire
- Car leasing
- Spa days and luxury experiences
- Plus, regular competitions
Ensuring your care workforce is trained to a professional, best practice standard
The Care Professional Academy is a platform for you to track your staffs’ learning and development. With access to the Provider Portal, you can:
- Set up profiles for your employees and upload certificates on their behalf.
- View new and existing employees training passports.
- Facilitate the creation of training plans for your staff to aid their career development.
- Identify training that is due to expire, and monitor your employees’ current accreditations and qualifications.
- Accurate training records for your staff to support compliance, governance and evidence for inspections and monitoring visits.
- Reward and motivate your employees to engage with training opportunities by providing them with exclusive rewards and discounts through the Academy.
- Support your staff’s financial wellbeing and enhance your developing culture.
- Keep your staff up to date with the most current Adult Social Care News.
The Providers Portal offers you as an employer the opportunity to incentivise your staff to engage with training and development.
With a tiered reward system, you can motivate your staff to learn and upload their certificates to the portal. This will result in them moving up through the 5 tiers to access more rewards and benefits!
In the fastest-growing work sector in the UK, it is important to remain competitive and do all we can to motivate and retain our staff. What better way than providing your staff with exclusive rewards and discounts?
Incentivise and Reward your Staff
Working in Partnership
The Care Professional Academy started as a partnership between Hertfordshire Care Providers Association and Adult Care Services at Hertfordshire County Council and was aimed at ensuring the entire care workforce across the county was trained to a professional, best practice standard. The remit has grown beyond Hertfordshire and the Academy is now available in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and continues to develop into other areas.
The Care Professional Academy is available to purchase for ALL Social Care Providers across UK and Local Authority. To find out more visit https://www.careprofessional.co.uk/services or email contact@careprofessional.co.uk
The Academy is available to all adult care providers and all services across the entire country including residential services, community groups, Direct Payment Holders, domiciliary care.
This would not be possible if it were not for the various staff powering these organisations, however, it is recognised working in social care is not always seen as attractive. We aim to support recruitment and retention, and help individuals continue to recognise and grow their knowledge, creating a culture of excellence through continuous learning and development.
