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ver two million new workers will need to be trained and recruited into the health and social care sector between now and 2022 – that’s over 50% of the current workforce. This presents opportunities for exchange of ideas, and challenges relating to working patterns, staff retention and training. We spoke to Steven Embleton, Chief Cloud at My Learning Cloud - the industry leader for training in the care support and health sector, about the questions to ask before investing in a learning management system and what it means to be the first elearning provider to be endorsed by Skills for Care. “There are a lot of different learning management systems on offer so it’s difficult to know where to start. My advice is to keep it easy and simple.” says Steven. “To understand what you want from a learning management system, first you have to understand what types of learning you currently use and what you want to do in
future. Talk to your staff and find out how they prefer to learn - when and where they learn best and what devices they prefer to use. What reports do you currently get on your learning and development needs and what would you like to see? Finally, do you want to integrate your learning environment with your HR system so people can automatically be given training relevant to their job role? Now you’ve
support organisations in their buying decisions when it came to elearning, so we worked with Skills for Care to develop the endorsement framework. When a care home manager sees the Skills for Care endorsement logo, they can be assured of the quality of the elearning they are receiving – I’m proud to say My Learning Cloud was the first organisation to be endorsed by Skills for Care in 2016. Our next
“Choosing a learning management system can seem very daunting – that’s why we approached Skills for Care back in 2015” got your basic list of “must haves” and “niceto-haves” you can start to work out which is the best provider to deliver the solution you need.” “Choosing a learning management system can seem very daunting – that’s why we approached Skills for Care back in 2015. We saw a need for someone independent to help
challenge is to ensure limited resources can be spent where they’re needed most, so we’re developing on a new product with Skills for Care to do just that!” This latest innovation in care sector training will be launched at Stand B54 at the Health+Care show 27th June. ExCel London.
FIND OUT MORE FROM MY LEARNING CLOUD BY VISITING STAND E20 AT THE CARE SHOW & B54 AT HEALTH+CARE 39