an exclusive care training partner
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The Care Partnership Programme
Specialist Health and Social Care training provider, Training Now (part of the Agincare Group), are seeking partners to deliver an accredited 12-week course that prepares students for a sponsorship visa and a full career in the UK.
Our Care Partnership Programme has been carefully designed to give your students all the knowledge, skills and support they need to achieve sponsorship and employment in the UK or elsewhere.
Training Now will deliver bespoke training to your tutors on how to teach the course content, as well as quality assurance, validation and welfare support to your students.
This is a fantastic opportunity for your students to dramatically improve their employability in the UK or elsewhere and for your organisation to form a lasting partnership with Training Now and Agincare.
Derek E. Luckhurst Founder and Chairman, Agincare
Become an exclusive care training partner and offer your students guaranteed employability in the UK.
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History of Agincare
Agincare is one of the largest family-owned, independent care providers in England, employing over 3,500 team members across 73 locations nationwide.
Our founder, Derek Luckhurst, opened his first care home, Agincourt, in Weymouth, in 1986. Since then, we have grown to provide reliable and professional care across a range of services, including care homes, home care, live-in care, supported living and training.
We have strategic partnerships with the NHS and local government across England.
Yet, we remain a family-owned company with a commitment to a long-term, sustainable future delivering high quality care.
Our teams contribute to national, regional and local policy, publications, panels and forums including at government level. This underlines Agincare’s place as a market leader and strong lobbyist for social care reform, funding and long-term workforce strategy.
Committed to our workforce
As our range of services and scale of provision grows, we recognise that our teams also need to develop.
Our future is focused on recruiting and training incredible people that share our passion for care, utilising our specialist training provider, Training Now. This ensures that everyone joining Agincare receives thorough, professional learning in preparation for a career in care.
Although we have always recruited internationally, in 2021 we launched Agincare International. Our specialist global recruitment team facilitates sponsorship for individuals from overseas looking to start a career and life in the UK or elsewhere.
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Agincare's Gorseway Park Care Home and Retirement Village
Training facilities in Portland, UK
Training Now
Training Now is a leading UK-based, specialist provider in Health and Social Care training and is experienced in planning and supporting the delivery of training internationally.
As part of the Agincare family, Training Now offers specialist training specifically for the healthcare industry. They are rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted (the government regulator for education and training) and are endorsed by Skills for Care (the government’s strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England).
Why should you become a care training partner?
The Care Partnership Programme is a unique opportunity for you to offer your students a tried and tested pathway to a successful career and life in the UK or elsewhere.
Our Sponsorship Journey
Agincare has always been proud to recruit globally.
Our diverse and multi-national workforce represents the best from around the world, and we take pride in being an experienced and successful sponsor of international healthcare workers.
Our care home, home care and live-in care divisions are UK Government-approved sponsors for skilled workers. The process of supporting and training new team members through their journey towards a career in the UK is managed by our specialist global recruitment team, Agincare International, and training partner, Training Now.
By becoming one of our training partners, you will benefit from:
A partnership with one of the UK’s largest independent Health and Social Care providers and established international recruiter
Full, high-quality training to your tutors, delivered in the UK and in your country of origin
Support running the course from specialist training provider, Training Now
Guaranteed employability in the UK for your students
Enhanced employability for your students worldwide
The potential to increase student numbers
The potential to increase income generation
Comprehensive training in how to sell the training course to prospective students
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Sponsored care workers at Agincare’s Cheriton Care Home
Agincare International
Agincare International selects, sponsors and supports applicants from overseas, welcoming over 200 new team members to Agincare annually.
As a result of this comprehensive support package, Agincare has the highest retention rate in the sector when it comes to supporting people to work in the UK under a visa arrangement. 98% of our sponsored care workers continue to work for Agincare today.
Anu’s Story
Anu, from India, now works as a Registered Nurse with Agincare thanks to the training she received from Training Now.
Since childhood, Anu had always dreamt of becoming a nurse and, with sponsorship and the associated support to train and work in the UK, that dream became a reality.
“Everything was super-fast for me and they made it easy.”
Once in the UK, Anu was welcomed to Agincare’s Gorseway Care and Retirement Village.
With further training and support, Anu went on to pass her Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) and is now a Registered Nurse with Agincare.
This success is underpinned by the comprehensive training provided by Training Now.
As a specialist provider of Health and Social Care training, Training Now provides learning to candidates that prepares them for a career and life in the UK or elsewhere.
The feedback we have received has been overwhelmingly positive and we are proud to have sponsored skilled workers who now play a key role in Agincare’s future.
“They gave me a good care worker to shadow and they explained everything so that I got to know the residents and all their routines. Every couple of days I received new training.”
As a newly qualified practitioner, Anu is supported in her role via a Training Now facilitated Preceptorship programme. This is enabling Anu to develop confidence as a professional and refine her skills as a nurse in the UK.
Proud to be part of the Agincare family, Anu is encouraging others to follow their dreams through The Care Partnership Programme:
“I really recommend all other nurses and all those who are planning to come to the UK come and join Agincare. It will always be a super supportive platform for you.”
Learn more about Anu’s sponsorship journey with Agincare
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The Care Partnership Programme
We can train you and your team to deliver exceptional social care learning to individuals seeking a career in care in the UK or elsewhere.
Training Now is offering you the opportunity to deliver a unique accredited 12-week learning programme that provides your students with a thorough induction to the care industry in the UK.
Preparing students for a career in the UK
The 12-week course includes modules on Care Essentials, Medication, Moving and Handling, Types of Care in the UK and more.
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Supporting you to deliver our course
From the moment you become a care training partner, our team will support you to deliver the programme.
Your tutors will also benefit from full, highquality training from Training Now. Through a blended delivery model, we will train your tutors both in your country and in the UK.
What’s more, graduates of The Care Partnership Programme will access support and sponsorship opportunities with Agincare International partners; all at no charge to the student for the introduction or the visa.
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Introduction to Working in Care
Working in the UK Care Industry
Looking After Yourself & Others
Care Essentials
Medication, Moving & Handling
Dementia & Mental Capacity
Person Centred Care
Learning Disabilities & Mental Ill Health
Keeping Safe & Well
Communication in Care
English Conversations in Care
Working in the UK
There are also skills sessions designed to support students to adapt to life in the UK and to develop their language skills, as well as modules on understanding English values and culture.
As part of The Care Partnership Programme, students will also have access to online learning modules.
With skilled, UK-based, tutor assessments throughout the programme, students will receive unique coaching to prepare them for life in the UK or elsewhere.
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The Student Journey
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Call our team now on: +44 (0)808 304 1759 Or email: cpp@agincare.com Sponsored skilled workers welcomed to the UK Training at Training Now facilities in Portland
Eligibility to apply for permanent leave to remain in the UK
Potential to work with UK employer for 3-5 years
Become one of Agincare’s exclusive care training partners Call our team now on: +44 (0)808 304 1759 Or contact us on WhatsApp: 07458 077 252 Or email: cpp@agincare.com agincare.com/care-partnership Partner with us: A leading independent Health and Social Care provider in the UK A leading international recruiter within Health and Social Care in the UK A specialist, UK-based, Health and Social Care training provider Agincare Group Limited. Company number: 06182736 Registered Office: Agincare House, Admiralty Buildings, Castletown, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1BB. VAT No: 905129248 Agincare/CPPB0223V1.0
