Our Training Centre
The Training Facility will be a centre of excellence providing high quality evidence-based palliative and end-of-life-care, education, and development opportunities. We wish to train unemployed youth to be certified excellent caregivers, at our training centre situated on the premises in Maryland.
CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
Aged 20 – 35
Male or Female
Poor, unemployed from Hanover Park and surrounds
Minimum requirement is completion of Grade 9
Candidates will need to commit to one year of training
Course Outline
Skills development
Basic nursing, palliative patient care, complementary therapies, upgrade literacy and numeracy, learning and study skills, computer literacy, communication, principles of housekeeping: good hygiene, cooking, and cleaning.
Nursing
Basic biology, patient care, giving medication, home and community care.
Palliative care
Principles, home-based care, interventions to reduce pain and assist mobility, complementary therapies.
Self development/care
Problem solving, work opportunities and work profile, personal finances, drivers license and self-care.
Course Outline
Skills development
Basic nursing, palliative patient care, complementary therapies, upgrade literacy and numeracy, learning and study skills, computer literacy, communication, principles of housekeeping: good hygiene, cooking, and cleaning.
Nursing
Basic biology, patient care, giving medication, home and community care.
Palliative care
Principles, home-based care, interventions to reduce pain and assist mobility, complementary therapies.
Self development/care
Problem solving, work opportunities and work profile, personal finances, drivers license and self-care.
Teaching Styles
Student centered, active learning, growth mindset | Everyone is capable when their needs are met. |
Excellence rooted in ownership | Each student owns their behaviour, learning and environment. |
Formative assessment: | Outcomes are presented, applied, and assessed everyday as a class, group and individual. |
Practical experience | Students rotate weekly to gain experience in adding value to patient care and contributions to the running of the training Centre. |
Teaching Styles
Student centered, active learning, growth mindset | Everyone is capable when their needs are met. |
Excellence rooted in ownership | Each student owns their behaviour, learning and environment. |
Formative assessment: | Outcomes are presented, applied, and assessed everyday as a class, group and individual. |
Practical experience | Students rotate weekly to gain experience in adding value to patient care and contributions to the running of the training Centre. |
The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.
Learning Styles
| Language and literacy – Workbooks will be available in English and Afrikaans and on Audio. |
| Individual formative assessment to include options in answers when appropriate – e.g. verbal, written, sketched. |
| Sharing in pairs and small groups. |
| Neurodiversity – choice in seating/standing; fidget devices, readers and scribes, one-on-one tutoring. |
Diversity
Celebrate diversity – we learn from differences in background, culture, neurodiversity, age, gender and educational background.
Accommodate diversity – each student has their own strengths, special needs, learning preferences and requirements.
Teach for diversity – provide more than one way to receive, process and apply knowledge.
Coming Soon!
Take the opportunity to boost your knowledge and open doors to exciting career prospects.
Let’s embark on this learning journey together!
- +27 82 711 6124
- info@utopiacares.org
- Summit Rd, Hanover Park, Cape Town, 7782, South Africa