Pin Point care staff training

CPD-Accredited Care Staff Training 

Good care staff training, aligned with Skills for Care standards, is not a tick-box exercise. Quality care staff training is the foundation of safe, high-quality care. At Pin Point, we deliver a comprehensive in-house training programme that combines practical classroom teaching with current legislation, best practice and real-world experience.

As well as providing free training to all our registered candidates, we offer our full training programme to external care providers - giving care homes, supported living services, children's residential homes and NHS settings access to high-quality CPD-accredited training without the cost of building it in-house.

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Pin Point care staff training

Care staff training for everyone

Our training is available to individuals and care providers of all sizes, from new starters through to registered managers.

  • Pin Point Health candidates - free of charge
  • External care providers
  • Care homes and nursing homes
  • Supported living services
  • Children's residential homes and NHS settings
Pin Point care staff training

Care staff training courses

Our programme covers all core subjects required across health and social care settings:

  • Safeguarding - adults and children combined
  • Moving and handling - practical and theory
  • Basic life support and first aid
  • Medication awareness and administration
  • NAPPI - Non-Abusive Psychological and Physical Intervention
  • Dementia awareness and learning disabilities
  • Diabetes management
  • Epilepsy awareness
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Mental health awareness

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Meet Leanne Kirkup - Training Manager

All Pin Point training is delivered by Leanne Kirkup, our Training Manager. Leanne brings extensive experience from the NHS, local authority and private care sectors. Her training is known for being practical, engaging and directly relevant to the environments candidates will actually work in.

  • CPD accredited across the full range of subjects delivered
  • Regularly reviews and updates course content to reflect legislative changes and best practice
  • Has trained hundreds of care professionals across all care settings

Leanne does not just deliver slides. She makes sure every person leaving her sessions feels genuinely more confident and capable in their role.

Book Care Staff Training

Want CPD-accredited care staff training for your team? We deliver mandatory and specialist courses in our own facilities or on-site at your service, keeping your team compliant and confident. Individual care workers will train with us too as part of joining our team. Contact us to book our or open plan training facilities, fully equipped with audio/visual presentation space, and adjoining care home staging set up, for hands on staff development.

Why outsource your training to Pin Point?

Running a care service means constant competing demands. Keeping your workforce trained to the standards required by CQC, local authorities and sector best practice can be time-consuming and expensive - particularly when staff turnover is high.

By working with Pin Point, you get:

  • Experienced trainers with genuine care backgrounds - not just training theory
  • Training aligned with current CQC expectations and legislation
  • Practical, engaging sessions that staff actually benefit from
  • Flexible scheduling to suit your service
  • Training suitable for both temporary and permanent staff
  • Delivery to teams across care homes, nursing homes, supported living, children's residential and complex care settings

Training for Pin Point candidates

All training is provided free of charge to registered Pin Point candidates. Our training ensures every person we place meets the mandatory requirements for their role - and goes into placement with the confidence to deliver good care from day one.

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Care Staffing Solutions FAQs

We deliver CPD-accredited mandatory and specialist care staff training, including safeguarding, moving and handling, medication, basic life support and more.
Yes. Our courses are CPD-accredited and delivered in our own fully equipped training facilities by experienced trainers.
Yes. We offer training in our facilities or on-site at your service, tailored to your team and the people you support.
Our training is for care providers, care home and children's home teams, and individual care workers building their skills across the North East and beyond.

Institutions, awards & accreditations

Pin Point is a proud member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for the UK recruitment industry. Alongside institutions like the NHS, we work to the highest compliance, training and safeguarding standards on every placement we make.

Real results from our care teams

See how Pin Point delivers in practice.