Home Care Practice Licence (HCPL)
About the Project
Home Care Practice Licence (HCPL) is a testing process which determines the competence of home care workers. Starting with a pilot project between 2002-2003, it has evolved into an easy-to-understand and objective system, which care providers are adopting to determine the competence of their workforce and quality of their training programmes. All of the materials are based on the Care Standards for Care At Home (Scotland) and is mapped to other standards within the care industry.
Some of its benefits are:
| ~ | Provides an objective way of testing the knowledge and practice of home care workers |
| ~ | It is suitable for experienced, inexperienced and ‘hard-to-reach’ workers (e.g. older, part-time, home helps, direct payments) |
| ~ | It can indicate gaps or quality of existing training programmes giving organisations to improve the quality of their workforce |
| ~ | Easy process to implement for large numbers of the workforce |
| ~ | Each care worker can achieve a certificate in 6-8 weeks |
| ~ | Simple English used throughout |
HCPL has won an Innovation Award from SURE Enterprise in May 2006 and continues to be implemented with service users who wish to improve the quality of their service provision.
Please browse through these pages to find out more about the test process or contact us if you wish to discuss HCPL in person.