Client Specific Skills Sample Clauses

Client Specific Skills. A further issue that came out of the Scottish Care research and also from the discussions that we had with employers during Stage 3 was the importance of training in skills specific to the service users (clients) that staff work with daily. The research underpinning the Stage 1 report had identified this as an issue but as being of less importance than shortfalls in soft or core skills and as a result it was given limited attention within the Stage 1 report. However, in the Scottish Care research it was the main skills need identified and it was also mentioned in a number of the Stage 3 discussions. In the Scottish Care research and to some extent in the Stage 3 discussions it was linked to the need for staff training in working with people who have dementia (or more broadly, a mental illness). The importance of this area of training has been further confirmed by the publication during the summer of research into the expected increase in dementia within Scotland as a result of demographic change. The research by Alzheimer Scotland (Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, 2007) indicates that the number of people with dementia will increase by 23% between now and 2017 and 75% between now and 2031.

Client Specific Skills. Most of the qualifications and awards available to the sector and listed in the Stage 2 report have a significant generic component, one reason for which is to aid staff mobility and flexibility within the sector. However, in addition, the SSSC has been actively engaged in the development of skill sets which aim to guide employers as to which Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) units and underpinning knowledge are most relevant for particular areas of practice (e.g. working with people with learning disabilities). As these are not awards, the extent to which these are being made use of is unclear. The area identified earlier as likely to require even greater attention is that of working with people who have dementia. This appears to both an issue of extent and range of provision.