The First 12 Weeks and Beyond

This book features the 2005 Common Induction Standards. As of 10 June 2010 those standards have been replaced with the New Revised Common Induction Standards. However, there is a transitional year, until 10 June 2011, in which the use of the 2005 standards continues to be recognised by Skills for Care as a valid way of inducting new staff. This transitional year is to allow employers and training providers to adapt their programmes and systems to the new CIS. In view of this, the priced publications Your Induction to Work in Adult Social Care and The First 12 Weeks and Beyond will continue to be sold for the first half of the transitional year, that is until 10 December 2010. Further products to support the use of the 2010 refreshed CIS are in development at Skills for Care and will be announced in due course. 

The First 12 Weeks and Beyond -- the manager's guide to using the Common Induction Standards to achieve competence, confidence and quality in adult social care Additional material written by Lynda Tarpey   Paperback: 38 pages Publisher: Skills for Care, Leeds, 2006 Language: English Product Dimensions: A4 portrait Price: £17.00 including P&P

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This is the official Skills for Care book to help managers of social care workers who are new in their post in adult care in England to complete the Common Induction Standards. It will help managers enable workers to deliver high quality care to the people who use care services. Most care services are legally required to induct their new staff, and Skills for Care recommends that all care services should do so. The Common Induction Standards are the recognised standards in adult care to meet the induction requirements of the National Minimum Standards that implement the Care Standards Act 2000.

The Common Induction Standards are freely available at www.skillsforcare.org.uk, but The First 12 Weeks and Beyond provides additional material not available in the free edition. As well as a specially-written introduction to managing the induction process and integrating it into overall workforce planning, this book provides manager's notes against each standard and a skills scan tool on a CD-Rom to help managers assess new workers. It also has the same sample questions as in the Skills for Care book for new workers, Your Induction to Work in Adult Social Care, as examples of the sorts of things care service managers will want to check that their new staff know or can do before they are 'safe to leave alone'. It is stressed throughout that the Common Induction Standards must be added to in order to meet the particular requirements of each workplace and of people who use care services.

This additional material has been written for Skills for Care by Lynda Tarpey, who has over twenty years' experience as a social care practitioner, manager, consultant and writer and who has consulted social care employers, managers and trainers in the development of this material.

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"...goes into detail on each of the standards, really breaking down the skills needed..."

(Community Care Magazine)

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