Training & Qualifications
Managing services amid financial pressure and significant changes in demographics and government policy calls for new skills and fresh approaches.
We deliver a range of courses, all offering the practical support you need to improve your skills in a tough environment.
Do you want the formal recognition of a university-accredited qualification? Or do you want to focus on a particular learning objective to help you in your role? Either way, we have a course to suit you that will give you the same depth of knowledge.
We offer a selection of our courses at a significant discount if your organisation is a member of the IPC Network or Partnership Programme.
Short courses
Learn practical skills and approaches to help your organisation deliver effective services and practice improvement.
Highly stimulating taught sessions combine theory with case studies and practical application exercises.
All our short courses have the option of being accredited by Oxford Brookes University to help with your Continuing Professional Development.
| Commissioning and Purchasing | Achieve the best use of resources through good commissioning practice. |
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| Housing with Care | Manage and deliver flexible accommodation and care that enables and supports the independence of residents. |
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| Integrated Performance Mangement | Achieve a consistent performance management culture throughout your service or organisation. |
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| Leading Quality Improvement and Change | Support front-line managers and senior practitioners to improve the quality and consistency of practice within their teams and services |
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| Managing service redesign and change | Analyse and reconfigure services with minimal impact on the level of personalisation, quality and outcomes for service users |
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| Market and Service Development for Providers of Public Care | In the current climate how can providers be pro-active in identifying and creating business opportunities? |
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| The social care workforce is your most expensive and most valuable resource. Is your workforce fit for purpose? |
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Workshops
Cost-effective skills development for commissioners, managers, heads of service and directors of children’s or adult’s services. Workshops focus on current issues such as:
- Analysing Needs and Resources
- Change Management for Personalisation
- Commissioning for Efficiencies: Understanding the Costs and Benefits within Social Care
- Developing Outcome Based Service Specifications
- Developing a Council Wide Approach to Commissioning and Contracting
- Ensuring Quality in the Provision of Services
- Shaping an Outcome Focused Market through Commissioning Grant Prospectuses
2012 dates will be published here at the end of February. To receive a programme please e-mail us at ipc@brookes.ac.uk
All our workshops have the option of being accredited by Oxford Brookes University to help with your Continuing Professional Development.
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Longer Development programmes
Gain in-depth knowledge and skills and receive personalised support to help you and your staff improve practice quality.
Advanced Diploma in Leading Care Services
A unique course to help managers of care services and owners of care businesses provide leadership in a tough climate.
This course addresses the everyday challenges of growing a sustainable business, recruiting the right staff, and meeting inspection criteria.
Team Manager Development Programme for Wales
This programme is designed specifically to help front-line managers and senior practitioners to improve the management of practice quality in their teams.
IPC has been commissioned by the Social Services Improvement Agency to deliver this programme for social care team managers across Wales.
It is accredited by Oxford Brookes University and successful completion leads to a Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Practice Quality in Social Care, worth 60 Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) points at Level 7.
Read more about the impact of TMDP here
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