EXCELLENCE IN TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Dr Celia Harbottle is a freelance lecturer/trainer in the field of health and social care with many years of experience, delivering a wide variety of course and programmes across the sector.
Her background is rooted in practice in both the NHS and social service provision combined with a robust academic foundation across both the further and higher education sectors. She was formerly a senior lecturer at both the universities of Sunderland and Teesside prior to deciding to go freelance in 2004. Her academic research interests include workplace learning, safeguarding adults, workplace culture and its effect on social care delivery.
Celia has a growing reputation across the health and social care sector for her enthusiastic, lively, well-researched and up-to-the-minute knowledge, which underpins her teaching and style of delivery. This has been particularly welcomed by practitioners needing to know about key pieces of policy affecting their work. She believes that participants are more likely to learn and engage if they enjoy the programmes she delivers, and this has been borne out in evaluations by the many agencies with whom Celia has worked. She is able to illustrate policy with practice examples, thus allowing participants to understand the relevance of the learning to their immediate working environment and role. Most significantly, however, is her ability to communicate directly and memorably with those who attend her courses. Her practice experience gives her credibility to deliver programmes on subjects with a specific focus on service issues. Her academic background gives breadth and depth to topics of policy and procedure underpinning the provision of health and social care. She can thus work with staff at all levels across the sector.
Dr Harbottle has also been involved in the design and delivery of programmes to meet specific workplace issues and organisational need. She has been commissioned for research and evaluations for services eager to identify their strengths and developmental needs in terms of service delivery and has also facilitated staff teams who are managing specific work-based challenges to meet the needs of those using their services.
The health and social care sector is undergoing significant change as it embraces new policy initiatives and demands. Demographic changes and growing expectations affect the way in which services are designed and delivered and the workforce need to be skilled and knowledgeable to be able to respond. Creative responses will be required to transform the way in which social care and health is provided. Celia sees her role in preparing workers across the whole sector to meet these challenges.
Celia has been recognised by the English Community Care Association (ECCA) as an approved provider of Mental Capacity Act 2005 training. She is a General Social Care Council (GSCC) registered practitioner and a Fellow of the Institute for Learning (IfL) and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
