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LOUTH Leader Partnership are continuing their employment success on their QQI FETAC Level 5 Healthcare assistant course.
Following on from the August 2018 graduation where 22 unemployed participants graduated a new group of seventeen participants started on 11th September 2018.
This healthcare assistant FETAC Level 5 programme is funded by SICAP under the Louth Local Development Committee. The programme is part-time five mornings each week and is delivered by Mary McLoughin from Healthcare Training Solutions.
The programme is implemented and co-ordinated by Louth Leader Project Co-ordinator Ina McCrumlish.
Louth Leader Partnership is a local development company with offices based in Mayoralty Street in Drogheda, Bridge Street Ardee and Park Street Dundalk.
The aim of the company is to promote, assist and engage in social development and enterprise development to facilitate rural and urban regeneration and community development designed to benefit and promote the welfare of local communities to deal with the causes and consequences of social and economic disadvantage and poverty.
Ina McCrumlish, project co-ordinator, explained that this Healthcare training programme sets out to address one of the major forces of societal change which is our aging population.
‘ To meet this need we must have individuals trained up to quality standards in order that that they can provide elderly and special needs individuals with the appropriate level of care.
‘ The pedagogy which Louth Leader Partnership has developed is a model of best practice proven in terms of its huge success in terms of unemployed participants securing full time and part-time employment in the healthcare sector across the county.’
Each time a new group is recruited new modules are added in response to market needs. To-date, employment has been secured in the HSE, Tredagh Lodge, Community Care Ardee, Aras Mhuire, Malta Services, Blue Bird, Gormanston Wood Nursing Home, Alzhemers Day Care Centre, Simon Community Dundalk, Comfort Keepers, Irish Homecare, The Beacon Clinic, St. Ursulas Bettystown, Hillview Nursing Home, Moorehall Lodge, CPL, St. John of Gods and Homecare Independent Living.
Entry onto the programme is a rigorous routine for any interested unemployed applicant or Local Employment Services clients. Not everybody that applies is guaranteed placement. There are several stages to the selection routine and each participant’s dedication to the learning is assessed continually throughout the programme.
Louth Leader Partnership would ask employers who may be looking for carers to contact Ina at Louth Leader Partnership Company to discuss their carer needs.