Group bookings ONLY: Please note this training course is only available to employers, such as NHS Trusts, CCG’s, Independent Providers etc. This is because the course is delivered onsite within the customers training facilities for groups.

Complex care training courses for healthcare workers and carers

Our comprehensive range of complex care training courses have been specially developed to support personal assistants, support workers and registered nurses to provide evidenced based care and support to people with complex needs. Our complex care training courses and competency assessments are tailored to individual medical and social requirements, and are suitable for:

• Nurses
• Support workers
• Healthcare staff
• Personal assistants
• Family carers
• Home care providers
• Residential homes
• Nursing homes

Complex care needs is an umbrella term for a number of different clinical skills. Our bespoke courses are designed to include only the clinical skills and topics required, popular topics include:

• An overview of Acquired brain injuries
• An overview of Spinal cord injuries
• Bladder care including catheter care (if required)
• Bowel care including DRE, DRS and DRF (if required)
• Gastrostomy or Jejunostomy Care (PEG/PEJ and PEG-J) and Enteral Feeding
• Suction (Oral, Nasopharyngeal, Oropharyngeal, Tracheostomy)
• Tracheostomy Care
• Non-invasive Ventilator

Why choose Guardian Angels for your complex care management training?

Our fully qualified and experienced nurse trainers ensure and deliver safe, effective and relevant learning and development along with additional support regarding competency assessment and testing within the workplace. Following our learning and development courses, should you not be able to source nurses from the local NHS trust to assess competency for various clinical skills such as:

• tracheostomy care
• enteral tube care
• ventilator care
• catheter or bowel care
• Etc.

we can discuss providing additional assistance.

Our complex care training programmes

Here’s a brief overview of the various complex care training modules we offer, but if you’d like to learn more, please visit our website or give us a call.

• Airway management training:
• Assisted cough training
• Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) training
• Tracheostomy training
• Suctioning training – nasal, oral, and tracheal suction
• Acquired brain injury (ABI) and / or spinal cord injury (SCI) training
• Autonomic dysreflexia training
• People handling/manual handling – for individuals affected by an acquired brain injury and / or spinal cord injury
• Pressure area care and tissue viability training – for complex care individuals
• Bowel management training following a spinal cord injury
• Catheter care training – for complex care individuals and those with a spinal cord injury and/or acquired brain injury

We tailor our courses to meet your specific needs, combining modules or developing a personal training programme according to the level of support you require.

Course duration

As each module is different, the duration of our complex care training courses varies - please contact us with the specific course(s) you’re interested in and we’ll advise of the length of training. All courses are delivered at a time and location suited for you.

Assessment and certification

The course process consists of continual assessment by the course tutor, case studies, practical scenarios, OSCE's and workbook completion. Guardian Angels Training will provide the necessary competency proformas required to ensure safe and evidenced-based clinical practice following completion of our training course, allowing the registered provider to ensure mandatory competency assessments are completed within the workplace by a nominated mentor/supervisor. For more information regarding competency assessments or to request an onsite competency assessment conducted by one of our specialist registered nurse trainers, feel free to get in touch and we’ll be happy to help. Upon successful completion of the course, delegates will receive a certificate valid for 2 years.

Further information

For more information about our clinical observation training course or to learn more about our other training courses and how they can help you to deliver a better standard of patient care, please feel free to contact our team who will be happy to help.

Group bookings ONLY: Please note this training course is only available to employers, such as NHS Trusts, CCG’s, Independent Providers etc. This is because the course is delivered onsite within the customers training facilities for groups.