Who We Are
The Community Care Providers’ Forum is open to all care providers across Midlothian. If you are not receiving information please contact us to be added to the list.
The Midlothian Community Care Providers' Development Officer will develop the effectiveness and competitiveness of community care providers and staff in Midlothian, through the promotion of training, guidance and skill development opportunities.
What We Do
The Development Officer will work with the forum to:
- Facilitate Community Care Providers’ Forum meetings
- Research sector-wide gaps in training
- Identify local sources of training and support
- Undertake training needs analysis with providers and their staff
- Provide information to providers on training issues
- Undertake promotional activities raising awareness of the issues and to overcome barriers to accessing training
- Promote life-long learning
- Promote relevant training opportunities
The EVOC Care Training Needs Analysis (ECTNA) is available on the EVOC website now!
The Training Needs Analysis (TNA) has been designed as a first step tool to enable organisations to
- Identify and collate post/grade qualification requirements for recruitment & service development
- Develop a learning & development plan which will identify training needs, costs and timescales to achieve mandatory /registration and non accredited training; staff replacement costs; learning support etc
- Provide evidence for the Board/management committee/stakeholders on the learning needs of the organisation.
- Provide evidence to the Care Commission of the organisation’s understanding and commitment to staff learning and development.
- Provide evidence on the organisations learning requirements to funders.
For More information please contact the MVA office.
To view the ECTNA and discuss learning and development for your organisation contact Trina or see http://www.evoc.org.uk/learning/caretna.asp
Website Aims & Disclaimer
The aim of this site is to bring together information relevant to Midlothian Community Care Providers, especially around the issues of training and staff registration. This site contains many links to other websites, please remember that the views expressed on them are not necessarily the views of Midlothian Community Care Providers.
Our Funders
The Development Worker’s position is funded by:



