The ‘employer offer’ is a wide range of services, support and resources we’ve created and pulled together for employers to help you in your role.
The employer support team
As the employer support team, we aim to:
- work with employers to hear from you about what's happening in the sector. We share this intelligence with the rest of our organisation to help shape our work
- share what's available to employers to support you and the workforce
- help employers to understand your regulatory responsibilities and make this as straightforward and efficient as possible.
We hold online information sessions for employers and management teams. We'll give you more information and talk you through things like:
- the employer support service
- the fitness to practice process
- the employer offer.
If you’d like a bespoke session, tailored to your team or event, please email employersupport@socialcare.wales
The employer offer
The ‘employer offer’ is a wide range of services, support and resources we’ve created and pulled together for employers to help you in your role.
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Supporting your workforce – helping you recruit new people, retain and support them
Recruitment and retention
- WeCare Wales campaign and a jobs portal to support recruitment and retention in the sector
- Resource for employers with staff who are new to working in social care in Wales
- Employing 16 and 17 year olds in the social care sector in Wales
- First steps in management – a resource for new social care managers
- Framework to support workforce retention - we’ve created a framework that offers social care employers tools and actions to help support and retain staff. The framework brings resources and research together to help create conditions that encourage staff to stay, grow, and thrive in their roles.
Positive cultures
- Supporting positive cultures - This guide explains the principles of positive cultures and why they matter. It also has links to resources, programmes and tools to help you use the principles
- Effective supervision in social care, early years and childcare - Find out how to provide effective supervision and appraisal in social care, early years and childcare settings
- Compassionate leadership - Information, advice and resources about leadership in social care
- Strengths – based practice - Resources and information about what strengths-based practice is, why we use it and how to use it in social care
- Health and wellbeing resources - Health and well-being information, advice and resources for social care and early years and childcare workers.
Improving services - Access to resources, data and information to improve practice
- Safeguarding – training, resources and case studies
- The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) - What you need to understand about the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and how they apply to you
- Using Welsh at work – training and resources
- access to information on our approach and plans for research, data and innovation across social care
- the Insight Collective gives you access to evidence summaries, social care data, e-journals and the opportunity to join communities of interest
- a range of online learning modules
- opportunities to attend events, training and conferences
- Positive approaches: reducing restrictive practices in social care – This learning resource aims to provide an understanding of how to work using positive and proactive approaches and reduce the use of restrictive practices in social care
- Recognising and preventing delirium - A quick guide for care home managers to help recognise and prevent delirium. This guide is based on NICE guidance and has been adapted for practice in Wales
- All Wales Guidelines for Delegation - The guidelines provide a guide to help social care managers to deal with the delegation of tasks by health staff to social care workers and to ensure that the worker is competent to undertake that specific task
- Infection prevention and control - Resources to help anyone involved in the social care or early years and childcare sector know how to behave to reduce the spread of infections
- Age Cymru - A toolkit bringing together resources to help care homes, families, friends and residents create the ideal environment for supporting care home residents' wellbeing.
Early years and childcare
You can find out information about early years and childcare on our website here.