SYR has helped to equip a new training centre and provided equipment to train to the centre which is unique in the West Midlands area. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust has just launched its own on-site training facility, which has achieved BICSc accreditation. It means that as well as keeping its own staff trained in the current programmes, the Trust can also offer BICSc training to other organisations. SYR was shown the premises, at The Barberry Centre in Edgbaston, by the Trust’s domestic and housekeeping manager Julie O’Connor.
“We have 128 domestics, stretching from Erdington to Dorridge, delivering domestic and housekeeping services across 24 locations. We, like many hospitals, did not have access to a specific training facility. Often, one-to-one training would have to take place at different locations. When an area at the Barberry became available, I suggested to my manager that investing in a training facility would make a considerable difference to us.”
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