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Bluebird Care York invests in new training facilities

Home care provider Bluebird Care York has invested in new training facilities to ensure its staff develops the necessary skills to provide customers with the best possible care and support.

Bluebird Care York has moved into new offices at Green Lane Trading Estate in Clifton Moor in York, which includes a purpose-built training room.

The new facilities, which include a bed, hoist and TV/projector, will enable Bluebird Care York to offer all staff training in-house, covering subjects including dispensing medicine, looking after patients with dementia, health and safety, and stroke awareness.

In the summer, the company will also offer free public workshops including Dementia Friends information sessions and stroke awareness information.

Bluebird Care York began delivering homecare and support services throughout the York City Council area (including Clifton Moor, Acomb, Rawcliffe, Skelton, Dunnington, Strensall, Wigginton, Haxby, Heworth, Holgate, Fulford, Copmanthorpe, Osbaldwick, Woodthorpe, Huntington and Bishopthorpe) in March 2011.

The company has also recently supported a campaign that addresses the language that is used to describe people living with dementia.

The Dementia Words campaign, led by the Dementia Action Alliance (DAA) and The Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP), calls on collective action to change the choice of words that are used to describe dementia and its day to day experiences.

Currently, there are 850,000 dementia sufferers in the UK, a figure expected to increase to more than one million by 2021 and two million by 2051.

Nicola Walden, director at Bluebird Care York, said: “At Bluebird Care York, we value our staff and see them as the key to our success and the development of a new training room will mean we can continue to support them from the beginning and throughout their career to ensure we deliver the very best quality of care to all our customers. We’re also looking forward to holding free sessions in the coming months to raise awareness of living with the effects of dementia and stroke.”

“We have also signed up to the ‘Dementia Words Matter Call to Action’ and pledged to change any words and descriptions in our written materials that people with dementia have identified as ones to avoid.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Claire Woffenden .