Concerned about compliance with the Essential Standards, your next inspection or just finding it difficult to keep up to date with the ever changing regulations in the health & social care sector? We can provide expert advice and support to help you whether you are completing your CQC Outcomes, facing compliance issues or developing systems and procedures. Our support is bespoke to your needs and can suit any budget. We can also guide you to pots of funding, when available, to help with the costs.

Workforce development encompasses commissioning, planning and development to meet new visions and priorities in health and social care. Good workforce development will equip you and your staff with the right skills to deliver safe and high quality services with particular focus on supporting dignity, independence and choice where people are enabled to stay healthy and actively involved in their communities, while those who need support have maximum control over the services they receive. We can help you with every aspect including; Business sustainability, Common Induction Standards, Manager Inductions, training plans, supervision & appraisal systems and management mentoring.

We understand how easy it is to drown under the amount of paperwork you need to complete to run your business. We have a range of ‘off the shelf’ policies and procedures, ready for your business to use as well as bespoke policies for your business in a variety of areas including; human resources, health and safety, operating procedures, safeguarding and other specialist areas. Our consultants can provide advice or training that care providers need to consider in order to comply with the Essential Standards of Quality and Safety. We can also support with a plan of action for providers who have compliance issues following an inspection.

Setting up a new care business can be challenging and overwhelming. We can assist in the registration of new services with CQC, or amendments to existing services including the completion of all the paperwork involved. We can also help with the registration of nominated individuals and managers including the completion of all the paperwork involved and preparation for interviews.

We are pleased to announce that we are now offering Apprenticeships for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (Child Care). If you are a young person aged between 16-24 and interested in becoming an Apprentice OR a Child Care provider and interested in taking on an Apprentice please contact us. There are some Government financial incentives for employers who take on Apprentices in any sector so please contact us if you would like to know more about that too.

The first seminar has already proven very popular, which came as no surprise to us. We were thrilled when the rather wonderful Barbara Pointon MBE agreed to come and give her presentation ‘Offering Enlightened Support and Care to People with Dementia’. She covers from diagnosis to death. Following the death of her husband, for whom Barbara was a Carer, she went on to become an Ambassador for Alzheimer’s Society and Dementia UK (Admiral Nurses) and a member of Standing Commission on Carers.

The events will start at 8.30am for coffee and networking and they will be finished by 10.30am. Future topics will include; Meeting the CQC Essential Standards and Getting Human Resources Right. If you would like to know more or book a place please contact us.

Staff from Venus had a great time at the 2011 Plymouth Inspire event on 13th Oct. The event was held at the University of Plymouth and was aimed at young people looking for careers and training. Nearly 100 young people took our nutrition challenge as part of the World Skills London Have a Go campaign.