Whilst the Care Certificate is the national minimum standard of competence, it is sometimes difficult for an employer to know whether they should recognise a care certificate issued elsewhere, as there is no common standard or measure applied to those who issue the award.
South Yorkshire Region Education and Careers (SYREC) aims to provide a degree of assurance across the health and social care sector by maintaining a list of approved awarders. Those appearing on the list are able to demonstrate that they support staff to develop in a structured manner.
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.
Why is this important?
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 list of SYREC 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
List of approved Awarders
| Title of Organisation | Contact | Date of submission |
| Crossroads Care Rotherham | Gail Taylor, Training Officer Email: gail.taylor@crossroadsrotherham.co.uk | October 2023 |
| Kinetic Nursing Services | Name: Ben Hardy Job Title: Talent Manager Email: ben.hardy@kinetic-nursing.co.uk | August 2023 |
| Perfect Care | Name: Andrew Charles, Training Manager – Chesterfield, Gainsborough [Lincoln], Rotherham, and Waltham House Email: andrew.charles@crtcare.co.uk Name: Hazel Bainbridge Email: hazel.bainbridge@perfectcare.co.uk | July 2023 |
| Dale Care | Name: Andrew Charles, Training Manager – Chesterfield, Gainsborough [Lincoln], Rotherham, and Waltham House Email: andrew.charles@crtcare.co.uk Name: Sophie Cook Email: sophie.cook@dalecare.co.uk | July 2023 |
| Eden Futures | Name: Emily Chapman Job Title: Care Certificate Lead Email: www.edenfutures.org | June 2023 |
| Home Instead | Name: Antoinette Bingham Job Title: Assistant Care Manager Email: antoinette.bingham@homeinstead.co.uk | June 2023 |
| Respectful Care | Name: Sarah Larkin | June 2023 |
| CRT Care Services | Name: Andrew Charles Job Title: Training Manager – Chesterfield, Gainsborough [Lincoln], Rotherham, and Waltham House Email: andrew.charles@crtcare.co.uk | June 2023 |
| Barnsley MBC – Organisation & Workforce Development Service | Name: Kay Welbourne Job Title: Assessment Centre Manager Email: kaywelbourne@barnsley.gov.uk | July 2022 |
| Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Name: Brian Burke | August 2021 |
| Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Name: Vicky Waller Organisational address: Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Gawber Road, Barnsley, S75 2EP Telephone number:01226 432157 Email: Victoria.waller@nhs.net | August 2021 |
| Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Name: Stephanie Allen Organisational address: Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust,Fulwood House, Old Fulwood Road, Sheffield, S103TH Telephone number: 01142263111 Email: stephanie.allen@shsc.nhs.uk | August 2021 |
| Vida Healthcare | Name: Victoria Hull, Senior Accredited Learning Officer Email: vhull@vidahealthcare.co.uk | October 2021 |
| Doncaster Council | Name: Gill Adams, Senior Accredited Learning Officer Email: gilladams@doncaster.gov.uk | October 2021 |
| NHS Professionals | Name: Olivia Hawkins Job Title: Director Care Support Worker Development Programme | April 2021 |
| Cristal Care | Name: Andy Miller Job Title: Training Coordinator Email: andymiller@cristalcare.co.uk | April 2021 |
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Care Certificate approved awarders in November 2019
| Hesley Group | Name: Sarah Ware |
| Respectful Care | Name: Sam Bernard
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| TAPTONHOLME | Name: Jamie-Lee Broadley |
| TRUSTCARE LTD | Name: Janet May |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | Name: Mary Dougan |
How does my organisation become 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 SYREC Care Certificate working group meets 3-4 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
