Services for a brighter future

The Quinn Centre

The Quinn Centre is an educational charity established in 2002 to deliver high quality, flexible and cost effective training to the health and social care sector.   Our enthusiasm for training and staff development combined with our knowledge of the care sector ensures that we provide the best training solutions around.   We can provide consultation and bespoke work based training to meet an individual organisation's specific needs.  We can also deliver our training solutions at our own centre or at any other preferred suitable location

The NVQ Assessment Centre:

The Quinn Centre has responded effectively to the demand for NVQ's in the domiciliary care sector.  100% of candidates gain their NVQ Level 3 within twelve months and 79% of candidates gain their NVQ Level 2 within nine months, exceeding key performance indicators.  This outstanding success is due to the support provided to candidates to achieve their goals.  The Quinn Centre ensures that NVQ training is delivered in a flexible way meeting the unique needs of those who work in the health and care sector.

  • NVQ 2, 3 and 4 in Health & Social Care
  • Assessor and Internal Verifier Award
  • Leadership and Management for the Care Services
  • Dental Nursing Level 3

Short Courses and Bespoke Courses

A comprehensive year plan and price list for short courses is available upon request.  Short courses can be tailored to meet the needs of an individual organisation.  We offer monthly payment plans for pre-booked training, allowing our customers to budget efficiently, with peace of mind that essential training needs will be delivered at a time and place that best suits them. 

A comprehensive Year Plan and price list for short courses is available on request.  Any short courses can be tailored to meet the needs of an individual organisation if needed.  The following is a selection of just some of the short courses and bespoke courses available:

  • 1 day and 2 day Re-ablement Training
  • Moving & Handling
  • Induction
  • Introduction to and working with service users with dementia
  • Recruitment, Selection and Interview Skills
  • Medication
  • Person Centred Planning
  • Infection Control
  • Supervision and Appraisal
  • Challenging Behaviour
  • Mental Health Overview
  • Infection Control
  • End of Life Care
  • CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Hygiene
  • Sexuality: raising awareness of how to provide care holistically

Comments below sourced from the Quinn Centre Ofsted Inspection Report No. 333278 (26/08/09)

~  '...Effective partnership working to benefit learners...'
~  '...Good action to increase social inclusion... '
~  '...High levels of satisfaction with quality of the training...'
~  '...Particularly flexible and responsive to meet the full range of learner and employer needs...'

97% OF OUR LEARNERS RATE THE TRAINERS AS BEING 'GOOD' or 'EXCELLENT'.

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