Sector Expertise

Established in 2000, JS Consultants (JSC) is a company, based in Wolverhampton that provides consultancy, education and
training support to Health and Social Care organisations to address specific regulatory and workforce development requirements.

Our team consists of a wide range of professionals which includes Health and Social Care Consultants for Adults and Children,
Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Management Specialists, Ex Registered Managers, RGN’s, RMN’s, Health and Safety
practitioners, Advanced Practitioners – Dementia Care Mapping, National Skills Academy for Social Care Endorsed Practitioner,
Qualification / System Consultant for City & Guilds and Ex External Verifier for the Open University.

JSC achieved the National Skills Academy for Social Care centre of excellence for training and education quality mark (now Skills
for Care) in July 2011. JSC was accredited with the Matrix Standard in April 2010, and in November 2008 we were one of the first
Health and Social Care training providers to achieve certification in the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Training Quality
Standard, for training excellence. This Standard recognised and accredited training providers that demonstrated excellence in
delivering training solutions to employers that met their needs and impacted positively upon their business outcomes.

In the 2009 West Midlands Skills for Care / LSC recognition of achievement ceremony for health and social care stakeholders, JSC
won the category “Training provider who has demonstrated effective partnership working with health and social care employers”.

SECTOR EXPERTISE

• Members of the management team have been or are currently involved with:
• Skills for Care and Development Stakeholder Panel: Member
• Skills for Care / National Skills Academy for Social Care Board: Member
• Skills for Care Audit and Risk Committee
• Skills for Care Workforce Development Sub-committee: Chair
• Skills for Care Apprenticeship Strategy Board: Member
• Skills for Care: Trailblazer Task and Finish Group – Members
• Skills for Care: Care Bill Learning & Development Programme Steering Group – Members
• Skills for Care: Learning and Development Matrix Task and Finish Group – Members
• Skills for Care: Workforce Development Forum – Members
• Skills for Care: West and East Midlands Regional and Core Network Committees: Members
• DH / Skills for Care: Social Care Commitment Steering Group – Chair
• Association for Care, Training and Assessment Networks (ACTAN): Chair
• National Institute for Care (NIFCARE): Employer Strategy Advisory Board – member
• National Skills Academy for Social Care: Endorsement Framework Review Panel – Chair
• City & Guilds Industry Board for Health and Social Care: member
• OCR Health and Social Care Consultative Forum: member
• Black Country Partnership for Care Board (BCPC): Member
• The Moreland Trust Health and Social Care Charity: Chair
• Health Education West Midlands: Integrated Care Transformation Theme Partnership Group – members
• Skills for Care: 2015 SLQA L5 alignment Steering Group: Member
• Skills for Care: 2011 QCF Reference Group advising on H&SC Diplomas L2/3/5, Awards/Certificates in Dementia Care – members
• Skills for Care: Accolades: 2011 & 2013 – Judge, 2012 – Judge “Winner of Winners” Category
• WorldSkills UK Caring Competition: 2012-17 – Steering Committee, Judges and sector experts – selection of Squad UK 2013
• The safe use and management of controlled drugs NICE guideline 2014: stakeholder
• The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hospice and Palliative Care (30th June 2010): Participants
• The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia inquiry into the dementia care skills of care home staff and staff
• supporting people with dementia in their own homes (16 June 2009): Participants
• Bradford Dementia Group, School of Health Studies at the University of Bradford: Affiliate Members
• University of Worcester Association for Dementia Studies: Members
• Dementia Advocacy Alliance: Members
• Carers UK: Members
• The Dying Matters Coalition: Members

QUALIFICATIONS

Our care qualifications are designed to meet the national occupational standards required of professionals working within the Health
and Social Care Sector, in particular the Care Act 2014 and Fundamental Standards. We are regarded as an exemplar Centre for
the quality of our management systems, processes and qualifications, which include:

• L5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care
• L2 / L3 Diploma in Health and Social Care
• L2 / L3 Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care
• L2 / L3 Award in Awareness of Dementia
• L2 / L3 Certificate in Dementia Care
• L2 Award in Supporting Activity Provision in Social Care
• L3 Certificate in Activity Provision in Social Care
• L2 / L3 Award in Awareness of End of Life Care
• L3 Certificate in Working in End of Life Care

Our aim is to ensure that students develop and maintain the practical skills and knowledge necessary to ensure success in their
chosen programme of study, and to effectively apply these skills in their workplace to achieve positive outcomes for people who
use services. Feedback from learners and their managers regularly refers to the high levels of learning achieved, support offered,
flexibility of delivery, positive impact on the service and people who use services.