Scils website
If your organisation have not registered on the Scils website, contact Gill Doyle on 0161 603 4191 who will register you on to the system. Please ensure that you have permission from your manager to do this.
Scils is an independent organisation providing information and learning services to health, social care, education, and the independent sector with the biggest single area of work being the provision of a subscription website containing:
- Qualifications
- Individual learning sessions
- Group learning sessions
- Induction and Foundation
- Assessor and Verifier
- Post qualifying
- Learning needs analysis
- Newsdesk
- Discussions
- Questions and answers
This section enables you to view structures for specific qualifications/standards in social care, including the units required for each, and to search for learning materials that link with them from a drop-down list.
Learning sessions (up to an hour and a half in length) covering a wide variety of topics for individual staff at all levels in the organisation.Two versions of each session are available - one specifically designed to support learning on-line and one plain version that is easy to print out and copy.
Course areas:
- Attitudes, values and principles of care
- Legislation
- Looking after and developing yourself
- Management/Human resources
- Understanding service users
- Working directly with service users
- Working indirectly with service users
Attitudes, values and principles of care
- Challenging Age discrimination
- Confidentiality
- Independence, choice and inclusion
- Person centred planning
- Promote empowerment of service users
- Understanding the values
- Access to policies and procedures
- Data protection legislation
- Disability Discrimination Act
- Health and Safety legislation
- Legal developments in the area of Disability since 1944
- Legislation relating to Adult Protection
- Legislation, policy and good practice
- Mental health legal framework
- The Care Standards Act 2000
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 - consent issues
Looking after and developing yourself
- Coaching in the workplace
- Compiling your NVQ portfolio
- Constructive feedback
- Goal setting
- How adults learn
- Managing your time
- Personal safety
- Reflective practice
- Research to improve practice
- Becoming a manager
- Customer care
- Decision making
- Handling complaints
- Individualising services
- Making meetings work
- Managing a team
- Managing change
- Managing financial resources
- Mangaging medication
- Managing policies and procedures
- Managing quality
- Performance appraisal
- Planning and delivering training
- Recruitment interviewing
- Supervision skills
- The recruitment process
- The training cycle
- Learning disability
- Mental health awareness
Working directly with service users
- Acquired brain injury
- Advocacy
- Assessing the needs of carers
- Basic personal care
- Challenging behaviour
- Communicating with people who are deaf or have hearing impairment
- Creating movement within care environments for older people
- Critical incidents
- Dealing with people we find difficult
- Direct payments
- Eating disorders
- Horticultural therapy
- How to responed to dementia and confusion
- Introduction to pressure care
- Listening skills
- Moving and handling inanimate objects
- Promote achievement and fulfilment
- Promote anti-discriminatory practice
- Recognise and work with constraints and conflicts
- Recognising adult abuse
- Recording skills
- Reminiscence work - memory and creativity
- Responding to adult abuse
- Risk assessment
- Safe food handling
- Supporting people through the process of loss
- Understanding loss and bereavement
- Working with a group
- Working with a person in 'denial'
Working indirectly with service users
- Empathy
- Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points - HACCP
- Huntingdons disease
- What is counselling?
High quality group/taught training sessions designed for managers or those with training responsibilities to download and run with their staff. Some will be appropriate for an hour and a half training session at the end of a staff meeting; others are designed to last for longer. All come with handouts ready for photocopying, step by step guidance about running the session and clear learning objectives.
Course areas:
- Attitudes, values and principles of care
- Looking after and developing yourself
- Management/human resources
- Understanding service users
- Working directly with service users
Attititudes, values and principles of care
- Anti-discriminatory/anti oppressive practice
- Breaching confidentiality (induction)
- Demonstrating the values
- Equal opportunities, prejudice and power
- Maintaining confidentiality (induction)
- Policies and procedures (induction)
- Promote empowerment of service users
- The worker relationship (induction)
- Understanding the values
Looking after and developing yourself
- Understanding supervision
- Developing a team (1)
- Developing a team (2)
- Looking after your customers
- Service setting (induction)
Working directly with service users
- An introduction to fire prevention
- Control of substances hazardous to health
- Emergency first aid at work
- Introduction to understanding loss and bereavement
- Promote achievement and fulfillment
- Promoting anti-discriminatory practice
- Recognise and work with constraints and conflicts
- Recognising adult abuse and neglect
- Responding to an incident of abuse
- Safe manual handling
- Stages of grief and mourning
- Understanding communication skills (induction)
Induction and foundation training programme:
A comprehensive Induction and Foundation Standards training programme to enable those with managerial / training responsibility to download and run it with staff. There is also a tool at the end of each Standard enabling staff to enter their evidence.
A1, A2 Assessor and V1 Verifier guidance:
Guidance for staff who are undertaking A1, A2 Assessor and V1 Verifier training.
Guidance for staff who are in the process of putting together their PQ portfolio.
Learning needs analysis tools:
A series of working tools to enable you to audit the skills of your staff and enable you to identify training and developmental needs.
Key issues /documents relating to policy, legislation, research etc. are identified from over 60 other websites twice a week, for example the Department of Health / Education, Commission for Social Care Inspection, Skills for Care etc A summary of the new information is provided along with a link to the source of the information. Subscribers are then emailed when updates are made.
A forum for registered users to ask questions or start discussions with other users.
A facility for staff to ask questions and we guarantee an answer within 48 hours
Downloadable documents
If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.
This page was last updated on 30 April 2008
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