Healthcare assistant Level 5 presentations
LOUTH Leader Partnership Company held their FETAC Level 5 Health Care Assistant Ceremony in the Barbican Centre.
At the event thirty four unemployed participants were presented with their hard earned Certificates. The Healthcare programme, funded by SICAP under the Louth Local Community Development Committee , was delivered by Mary McLoughlin, Healthcare Training Solutions 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, Ardee and 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 or poverty.
At the event, Chairperson of the Board of Management, Frank 0’Brien explained to the audience that the need to deliver the FETAC level 5 Health Care programme in particular was identified in late 2016 by an expression of interest list generated by the Connect Family Resource Centre in Moneymore. Entry onto the programme was not easy as interested candidates were subjected to a rigorous selection routine. Fifty four people applied and just twenty six candidates were selected who were joined at the event by six candidates who had returned in order to attain their full accreditation. CEO, Ciaran Reid welcomed the large gathering and congratulated all the participants on their dedication and commitment to the learning programme.
The employment outcomes attained on the programme were outstanding with participants securing employment in Gormanston Wood Nursing Home, Alzheimers Day Care Centre, Irish Homcare, The Beacon Clinic, St. Ursulas Bettystown, Hillview Nursing Home, Moorehall Lodge, CPL, St. John of Gods and Homecare Independent Living.
The next Louth Leader Health Care Programme will be implemented in September 2017. Recruitment will start in mid August 2017. If you are unemployed and interested in being considered for placement please telephone Louth Leader Partnership on 041:9842088.