Care Academy

Under the banner of the charitable foundation the St Monica Trust aims to improve the standard of care that we provide for older people, both within the Trust and nationally, through the establishment of a sector-leading learning academy at the Somerdale Pavilion in Keynsham.

As well as training our own colleagues and those looking at entering the health and social care sector, the Trust’s first-class training provision will also be available to organisations who can’t afford to pay the fees charged by the private sector.

The Academy will look beyond statutory requirements and provide people with the skills to deliver the best outcomes for older people within the services they work, including the harnessing of new technology to deliver care. We will also encourage people to spread their wings beyond our shores, spend time in countries with exceptional practice in caring for older people and bring those learnings back to the UK.

Through The Academy we have already established a provision of more than one hundred apprenticeships at the Trust within the first year of it opening. The Trust aims to build on that impressive start and run apprenticeships for other organisations within the voluntary sector. Not just for starters who are looking at a way in, but all the way up to PhD level and the sponsorship of academic research into the issues affecting older people.