Workforce Development for Health and Social Care
Export to PDF and Excel are some of our most requested features. This quarter we have been working closely with some of our key residential care partners to provide new export features that make it even simpler to evidence knowledge
New Skills For Care Guidance was issued this summer. As always, The Grey Matter Group aim to provide you with timely updates on learning and competency in our sector. Recently Skills for Care released two new guidance documents that I’d
At the Grey Matter Group, we have always valued the process of gathering and recording high quality evidence and observations to support decisions about staff members’ safety to practice. We are about to raise the value of evidence gathering to
We have published updates to our popular quick start guides this week to include the new functionality we released in our quarterly scheduled release. Managers can download a four page guide covering information on reporting, viewing assessment results, administration and group
Our much anticipated holistic observation capabilities will be launched on the evening of 22nd March 2016, and as we hinted in an earlier post in February, the benefits for managers and staff are really exciting! New Ways to Record Observations As
Enhanced Reporting Capabilities has been one of the two most-requested features for our assessment and competence recording solution since the introduction of the Care Certificate in April 2015. The wait is over! We are pleased to say that the wait
Care Certificate Observations Since October 2014 The Grey Matter Group have been working closely with some of our national customers and partners to design new capabilities for managers to record staff observations against Care Certificate outcomes within our assessment and
Our hugely popular Care Certificate Webinar programme has been extended again to allow more health and social care staff to find out all they need to know about the changes brought about by the Care Certificate. If you missed the
We are excited to announce that The Grey Matter Group has a new apprentice on the team! Our New Apprentice: Daniel Stevens Daniel Stevens – Dan to his colleagues and friends – is an aspiring technologist who wants to work at
We are really proud to see that another of our customers has been recognised by Skills for Care in the press recently. REaCH Stockport Council’s in-house Reablement and Community Home Support was the winner of the 2015 Skills for Care Accolade
The Grey Matter Group are delighted that one of our largest customers, Home Instead, has achieved the highest Care Quality Commission (CQC) compliance score of any national provider for the elderly in the latest Laing & Buisson report. The quarterly
In its annual report on the state of health care, published this week, currently trending with the hashtag #StateofCare, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found that the majority of adult social care services in England provide good quality caring but there
The introduction of the Care Certificate (1st April 2015) for Health and Social Care (H&SC) has increased the focus on observation because of the requirement to evidence worker competence “during real work duties”. Assessing knowledge, checking understanding and observing practice
The Grey Matter Group is pleased to share that Log on to Care, our award winning eLearning club, has experience a significant jump in usage – more than 43% – over the last quarter. Increased Usage Sarah Knapp, Project Manager
The Grey Matter Group are delighted to announce the successful release of our new portal and vastly improved Care Certificate assessment tools today. The new portal, accessible to all customers via the ‘Log in‘ button at the top of the
Register for a free webinar this Autumn. Complete the Care Certificate on your iPhone or Smart Phone Our latest updates to our popular Care Certificate solution which will allow you or your team to complete the Care Certificate on almost
Are you responsible for delivering the Care Certificate for Health in your setting? More accurately, are you charged with measuring competence for NHS and Healthcare staff against the new Care Certificate standards? The Grey Matter Group is delighted to announce
Are you ready for the Care Certificate? Join one of our free Webinars to find out. Alex Knapp, CEO of The Grey Matter Group, will share useful information and answer your questions about the Care Certificate. When Are The Webinars? Our
Induction Programme The Care Certificate is the national induction programme for people new to health and social care. It should be arranged and provided by employers during the new workers first 12 weeks to ensure that new workers are effectively
The Care Certificate Launches April is here, and with it, the introduction of a new era of positive change in health and social care with the new Care Act. The principles of wellbeing, observation and evidence of competence are common