Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Learning and Development for Adult Care Workforce: Flexible Purchasing Solution (FPS)
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This is a large award for Education & Training — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 23,516 valued Education & Training tenders in our corpus.
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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for suitably qualified training and development applicants to be appointed onto a flexible purchasing system (FPS) for the provision of a range of training solutions for the adult social care and public health workforce.
Training solutions provided to the authority must be based on person-centred values and principles and support high quality services and improved outcomes for customers through the provision of a competent, capable, and skilled workforce.
Adult social care comprises personal care and practical support for older adults who cannot manage the tasks of everyday life and for working-age adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses.
It also includes support for their carers and personal assistants.
Public Health centres around protecting and improving the health of the population and the local community, through various means at all life stages to improve health outcomes for Rotherham residents.
The audience may include wider public health workforce, businesses/ employers and/or residents themselves.
The Learning and development FPS will provide the Authority with the opportunity to procure a range of services within the scope of learning and development.
And will be split into 13 different lots, which are listed within this notice.
The rules of the FPS permit additional lots to be added to the FPS, subject to remaining within the same scope.
What the notice asks for
Training solutions provided to the authority must
Training solutions provided to the authority must be based on person-centred values and principles and support high quality services and improved outcomes for customers through the provision of a competent, capable, and skilled workforce.
Adult social care comprises personal care
Adult social care comprises personal care and practical support for older adults who cannot manage the tasks of everyday life and for working-age adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses.
It also includes support for their carers
It also includes support for their carers and personal assistants.
The Learning and development FPS will provide
The Learning and development FPS will provide the Authority with the opportunity to procure a range of services within the scope of learning and development.
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- tender · Open
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