GSF Domiciliary Care Training & Accreditation Programme

The next GSF Domiciliary Care Training & Accreditation Programme commences on Wednesday 10th April 2024.

The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Domiciliary Care Training Programme was first developed in 2011 initially at Certificate level to improve care for people in their last year of life. In 2019 the GSF Domiciliary Care Gold Quality Improvement Programme was introduced, leading to accreditation and the Quality Hallmark Award.

Domiciliary care has a very important role to play in care for people living at home, and particularly for those who may be in the final year of life. Domiciliary care workers are vital in helping people to live well and to remain at home right to the end if they wish to, thereby decreasing avoidable crisis hospital admissions. Yet, often care workers have not received adequate training and don't feel confident in this important area of care or able to work effectively with other community teams. Over 3,500 teams have been GSF trained since 2004, with hundreds accredited and reaccredited, improving care for millions of people. The Domiciliary Care programme fits with other GSF training programmes to enable domiciliary care workers to gain the knowledge and understanding of how to proactively support their clients as an integral part of the community team.

GSF helps implement national policy in practice. GSF improves proactive, personalised, well-coordinated care, in line with the NHSE Long Term Plan, NICE Guidance, supporting GPs’ Quality Outcomes Framework, enhancing quality of care and reducing crisis hospital admissions and deaths, whilst providing evidence of impact for CQC and local commissioners

The GSF Accreditation Quality Hallmark Award is nationally recognised as a kite-mark for quality, recognised in by Care Quality Commission, and co badged with National Care Forum, Care England, National Care Association, British Geriatrics Society, Royal College of GPs, and other national organisations, with high numbers of ‘CQC Outstanding’ organisations being GSF Accredited.

The training includes:

8 Live Webinar Sessions: Each session covers one of the GSF 7 key tasks, sharing good practice and monitoring step-by-step progress.

Tools & Resources: Exclusive access to our members area and resources, including teaching materials, posters, videos, leaflets and good practice guides.

Measures: Intrinsic evaluations showing benchmarked change and progression over time. The evaluations are at the organisational, client and staff level and are aligned with national targets to demonstrate change.

Fore more information, please visit: www.goldstandardsframework.org.uk/domiciliary-care-training-programme

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