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Apprenticeships and Diplomas
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Top-up skills and knowledge
Health and Safety Awareness Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Medication Awareness Understanding Care Planning
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Adult Care Apprenticeship & Sector Training

We build better careers in social care
As a social care provider, your everyday performance and service users’ wellbeing depends on you finding the best apprenticeship training in social care career pathways. 
After all, skilled, confident, motivated teams form the heart of your work and underpin growth. See why investing in tend-trained teams makes perfect sense for everyone.
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Why use tend for Adult Social Care training

It's Personal
It's personal with tend
By drawing on our expertise in your sector and really getting to know your organisation, we’ll deliver a far more relevant, tailored and joined-up social care apprenticeships and training solutions. 
From course content matching your evolving needs to delivery that fits your working patterns – expect training shaped around you, not us.
Career-long learning
Career-long learning
Social care settings get the best from their people when they develop them longer term, supporting them through their entire learning lifetime. 
Our end-to-end approach does exactly this, developing any or all of your workforce, at whichever level is appropriate.
Solving headaches
Solving headaches
How can you shrink staff costs by upskilling your way to better retention? Who’ll keep you up to speed with ever-changing practice in SEN? 
From support with funding, eligibility and compliance to devising a business-wide training strategy – our 360° partnership approach covers everything you can think of (and hidden risks you can’t).
Tech solutions
Solutions through tech
Our expertise with technology, data and HR means we can identify and recruit the people you need to upskill. 
 This helps you improve operational efficiency, stay one step ahead of regulatory changes or fill skills gaps before they even happen.

The benefits

Improved staff morale and retention helps reduce operational costs.
Boosted CQC compliance through up-to-the-minute best practice in DEI.
Higher quality care thanks to improved communication and teamwork.
Significantly enhanced employer reputation via sector-leading CPD.

The Courses

Career Builders
Career Builders courses give your people in-depth and longer-term training for really progressing their career. Typically, these are social care apprenticeships delivered over 16 – 18 months and carefully tailored to meet your specific organisational needs.

Level 2 Adult Care Worker- Community Apprenticeship

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Level 2 Adult Care Worker- Residential Apprenticeship

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Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship- Generic Pathway

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Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker – Dementia Apprenticeship

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Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker – Mental Health Apprenticeship

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Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker – Supported Living Apprenticeship

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Skill Builders
Meanwhile, shorter courses fill the gaps in between, delivering the specialist niche skills a particular remit relies on. Learner to leader in every sense, whether you’re a social care support worker, the organisation’s CEO, or hoping to grow from one to the other.

CPD End of Life Awareness Course

This CPD-certified course supports healthcare workers and elderly workers in providing compassionate, safe, and dignified…
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Health and Safety Awareness Course

This Health and Safety Awareness course introduces the essentials of health and safety at work,…
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CPD Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Course

Creating an inclusive workplace means more than meeting compliance requirements — it’s about fostering respect,…
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CPD Medication Awareness Course

This CPD-certified Medication Awareness training provides clear guidance on the safe handling of medication in…
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CPD Physiological Measurements Awareness Course

This CPD-certified Physiological Measurements course gives staff the knowledge to recognise key vital signs that…
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ISEP Environmental Sustainability Skills For Managers

Develop the skills to manage sustainability effectively. The ISEP Environmental Sustainability Skills for Managers course…
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Transform your organisation by empowering its people, with expertly tailored on-the-job training delivered by sector specialists. 
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