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Upcoming Courses for Residential Care

Custom Programmes

Our upcoming courses for Residential Care are just the beginning. We provide a wide range of tailored courses to meet your team’s needs.

If you don’t see the training you need listed, please contact us, and we will be happy to assist you.

Workshops

  • Non-Violent Personal Safety Awareness
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • Restrictive Practices
  • Dementia
  • End-of-Life Care
  • Dining With Dignity
  • Complaints
  • Team Building
  • Conflict Management

Clinical Care

  • Falls Prevention
  • Venepuncture
  • Male Catheterisation
  • Supra-Pubic Catheterisation
  • PEG Management
  • Wound Care
  • Recognising & Responding to a Deteriorating Resident

  • Medication Management
  • Care Planning & Record Keeping
  • Nutrition
  • Communication

Management

  • Management of Complaints
  • Risk Management
  • Auditing
  • Preparing for HIQA Inspections
  • Governance & Management
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Instructor Courses

  • Cost-saving in-house training for your mandatory training needs

  • Train the Trainer (Level 6)
  • Fire Warden Instructor
  • Manual Handling Instructor (Level 6)
  • CPR/BLS Instructor

LHP Skillnet healthcare courses can be delivered online or face to face at your facility or centre.

Custom Course Delivery & pricing

We offer complete schedule flexibility that suits your needs. You have the option to run various courses on the same day, conduct individual half-day courses/workshops, or spread them out over days or weeks. The choice is yours!

Delivery is just as flexible as scheduling. You can choose between in-person classes at your private care centre or nursing home, or live online sessions. All training and education is subsidised ensuring high quality at a more affordable price.

Courses for Residential Care

Workforce Development is Key

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Courses for Residential Care

Workforce Development is Key

The main challenges faced by Irish private residential care providers in training and educating their staff include limited funding for professional development programmes, difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified personnel, addressing the evolving needs of diverse resident populations, and keeping up with advancements in healthcare practices, regulations, and HIQA standards.

In view of these challenges, we aim to support the private residential care sector by providing training and education programmes that are specific to your needs while lowering the cost. Furthermore, we are committed to advancing our knowledge through collaboration, feedback, high-quality education, and innovative program design. Our goal is to provide you and your teams with the latest evidence-based practices.

All our training is sector-led to guarantee a high standard while keeping the cost low.

Despite all complexities, investing in training and development for staff in Irish residential care centres is crucial, as it improves the quality of care, enhances resident outcomes, boosts staff morale, increases staff retention, and ensures regulatory compliance.

Our Approach

We Plan
We Design
We Deliver

Effective & Comprehensive
Staff Training for
Residential Care Providers

We Plan
We Design
We Deliver

Effective &
Comprehensive

Staff Training for

Residential Care Providers

Needs-Based Approach
Focusing on areas such as person-centered care, dementia care, palliative care, infection control, and communication skills, we identify the specific needs of healthcare staff and tailor training programs accordingly.
Continuous Professional Development
To keep up with best practices and evolving healthcare regulations, we emphasize the importance of ongoing learning and provide opportunities for staff to update their skills and knowledge.
Practical & Interactive Learning
Our training programmes incorporate hands-on experiences, case studies, role-playing, and interactive exercises to enhance engagement and application of knowledge in real-world scenarios.
Collaboration
Collaboration and knowledge sharing among our member companies and between different disciplines within the organisation is encouraged to foster a holistic approach to healthcare.
Evaluation & Feedback
We implement a system to assess the effectiveness of training programs through evaluation surveys, feedback mechanisms, and performance assessments to continuously improve and refine training initiatives.
Cultural Awareness & Diversity
To promote understanding, respect, and effective communication across different cultural and ethnic groups of both staff and clients, we incorporate into our training cultural awareness, inclusivity, and sensitivity.
Focusing on areas such as person-centered care, dementia care, palliative care, infection control, and communication skills, we identify the specific needs of healthcare staff and tailor training programs accordingly.
To keep up with best practices and evolving healthcare regulations, we emphasize the importance of ongoing learning and provide opportunities for staff to update their skills and knowledge.
Our training programmes incorporate hands-on experiences, case studies, role-playing, and interactive exercises to enhance engagement and application of knowledge in real-world scenarios.
Collaboration and knowledge sharing among our member companies and between different disciplines within the organisation is encouraged to foster a holistic approach to healthcare.
We implement a system to assess the effectiveness of training programs through evaluation surveys, feedback mechanisms, and performance assessments to continuously improve and refine training initiatives.
To promote understanding, respect, and effective communication across different cultural and ethnic groups of both staff and clients, we incorporate into our training cultural awareness, inclusivity, and sensitivity.

Our Research

LHP Skillnet conducts valuable research in collaboration with leading academic institutions. Through surveys, studies, and collaborations, we explore pressing industry issues. Our research findings, published in esteemed journals like Nurse Education in Practice, demonstrate our commitment to evidence-based practices. By actively engaging in research, LHP Skillnet contributes to knowledge advancement, enhances best practices, and benefits our member companies as well as the wider private healthcare sector in Ireland and beyond.

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