What is an Approved Awarder 

Simply put, an approved awarder is an organisation that issues care certificates that other organisations can be confident of.  This is because they have shown that they have structured systems for training, development, support, and assessment of learners.

An approved awarder is, therefore, able to demonstrate quality in their processes, giving their staff, other organisations and themselves confidence that those achieving the care certificate are able to satisfy the standards of the award. 

Approved awarders demonstrate that their staff are well trained and competent and so able to provide high quality care and support.

The benefits include appearing on the South Yorkshire list of approved awarders that will not only promote employers as examples of good employment practice, it will also be evidence to CQC and contractual partners that staff training commitments are addressed. 

As it is also important to be as efficient as possible, assurance that employees have been trained effectively supports employers to reduce costs and training workload by reducing unnecessary repetition of training.

Where all partners in the wider health and social care arena work together, efficiencies can be achieved whilst quality is maintained. 

Additional benefits include: 

• Raises the profile of your business as a person centred organisation for both the staff it employs and the people it supports.
• Quality assurance re learning and development in place for employees both new to care and existing staff.
• Reflective tool to help you scrutinise processes and practice re induction and ongoing learning and development.
• Improves staff morale – a caring organisation.
• Will ultimately save time with induction if more providers were on board and quality marked as a trusted assessing organisation.

Becoming an approved awarder

Simply complete the questionnaire (for latest version contact everild.hindley@nhs.net)  and send it to us at the address included. The South Yorkshire Region Education and Career (SYREC) team Care Certificate working group meets three to four times per year.

Amongst other things, we review submissions from organisations, where necessary seek clarification, and maintain the list of approved awarders. Once your submission has been accepted, your organisation will be added.

Update of approval status

At present, there is no time limit for how long approved awarder status will last, although this is under review. 

SYREC Care Certificate Approved Awarder Logo

You can download a copy of the SYREC care certificate approved awarder logo here.

Example of certificate