Edgeworks News

Care Academy is pleased to announce that Care@ is the latest organisation to sign up to our dedicated care sector e-learning programme. Care@ is a successful specialist healthcare recruitment business with a growing network of nursing and care agencies throughout the UK.  Following the successful launch and roll-out of the Care@ branded Care Academy, student feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive, with staff stating 

“the lessons are well presented”, “it is so easy to learn this way”, and “I was worried about using a computer, but it has been so easy”.

Speaking about the partnership with Care Academy, General Manager Philip Rainsford stated:

“We look forward to continuing to build our relationship with Edgeworks, in particular to expand our training academy to offer NVQ training.”

For more details about Edgeworks Care Academy please visit www.care-academy.co.uk or contact Paul Allman on 0161 228 1712.

Today Edgeworks formally launched our latest product Policy-Safe.

Policy-Safe will enable organisations to create, deliver and track key policies and procedures such as recruitment guidelines, employment contracts, health and safety policies, quality assurance procedures to name but a few. Importantly, Policy-Safe can also be used to demonstrate due diligence in the event of a claim for non-compliance.

Historically, these type of products have only been available to large companies with the financial resources to invest in this type of technology. However, Policy-Safe has been designed to be an affordable solution for companies of all sizes and delivers many of the features normally reserved for technologies costing tens of thousands of pounds.

If you would like to find out more about Policy-Safe please visit http://www.policy-safe.co.uk/.

Edgeworks has today announced the launch of their unique Recruitment Marketing Solution ‘JobDept’ (http://www.jobdept.co.uk/).

JobDept enables companies to maximise the organic exposure of their job vacancies across popular search engines, vertical (job specific) search engines, job boards, RSS directories and blogs to ensure access to the widest pool of talent.

JobDept meets key industry guidelines for:

1. Data Protection especially the transfer of personal data via job applications and CV’s.
2. Usability and accessibility as provided by W3C guidelines.
3. Search Engine Protocol for site submission.
4. Individual user privacy protocols such as P3P.

In addition to the core functionality, JobDept can be combined with Edgeworks Performance Marketing (Pay-Per-Click) and online advertising services to target niche vacancies.

JobDept is provided as a fully outsourced solution and so requires no in-house IT support or complex contract. Following an initial set-up, the solution is offered on a simple month by month basis.

Key features of JobDept include:

1. Crawlable URL’s: this makes it easy for search engines to find and index your job vacancies.
2. Search Engine Optimised (SEO) friendly job descriptions: enable search engines to index key words and descriptions for each and every job listing.
3. Simple and intuitive management and administration interface: requires very little training and product support.
4. RSS subscription: enable users to receive automated job alerts.
5. XML feeds: enables organisations to feed multiple online job boards specific to their industry.
6. Site Analytics: On-demand site analytics available to track and monitor visitor traffic.
7. Fully secure and web compliant solution: organisations have peace of mind that JobDept will always meet industry best practice guidelines.

For more information about JobDept please visit http://www.jobdept.co.uk/ or contact Steve Helsby on 0161 228 1712.

Edgeworks announced today that UK Quality Care Solutions (UKQCS) are the latest organisation to sign up to the Care-Academy Partner Programme. UK Quality Care Solutions provides quality management support and training to the care industry. The Care-Academy sits well with both their Quality Management and Training offering and gives UKQCS greater flexibility in learning delivery.

Speaking about the Partnership, Neil Crawford stated “We are delighted that this partnership with Care-Academy will now enable UKQCS to enhance the range of support we provide by adding their flexible and excellent quality on-line training solutions to our workforce development and training menu”.

Paul Allman, Edgeworks Head of Learning commented “We are delighted to welcome Neil and UKQCS as our partners. UKQCS compliment Edgeworks and will provide us with access to new markets as well as facilitate new programme content. We look forward to working with Neil and his team over the coming weeks and months to provide the Care-Academy to their client base.”

For more about UKQCS go to their website www.ukqcs.com.

For more details about Edgeworks Care-Academy visit www.care-academy.co.uk or contact Paul Allman on 0161 228 1712

Edgeworks has today announced they are developing an Induction programme meeting the requirements of the Children’s Workforce Development Council Induction Standards.

The programme will contain content for both Early Years and Young Adult settings and will be available early May 2007.

For more details about Edgeworks Care-Academy visit www.care-academy.co.uk or contact Paul Allman on 0161 228 1712.