1,050 new carers complete their training at Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club 

Embark Learning Care Academy, a regional training provider, has recently reached a major milestone at Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club, as it has now trained 1,050 learners at its site on the grounds at Billesley Common.

Embark Learning Care Academy helps carers, new or fully qualified, develop and acheive nationally recognised qualifications and has done so, with great success for the last 10 years, throughout the West Midlands. One of its bases in the Midlands is at Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club, where it is also a headline sponsor, it also trains carers at multiple of other sites, including its head office in Royal Sutton Coldfield, Telford and Wolverhampton amongst others.

Over the last three years that the company has been working at Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club, it has trained more than 1,050 carers, which brings the number of people that have completed training with Embark Learning Care Academy to 3,125. With the 1,050 carers trained at the rugby club providing approximately 25 hours of care per week, this works out to 26,250 hours of care per week, more than one million hours a year!

While taking a Health and Social Care course could usually cost applicants up to £2,000, through Embark Learning Care Academy, it’s completely free for the recruits, who need no prior qualifications or experience, and allows them to get all of their qualifications and into a job in just four weeks.

Once successfully trained, staff are offered a role with Fairway Homecare, whether that’s within their domiciliary service or working in one of over 300 social care settings in the West Midlands. All learners are reminded that this is merely the start of their journey, as career progression is at the heart of the Embark Learning Care Academy and Fairway ethos. 

Operations Director, Alex O’Neill, said: “Our relationship with Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club began some three years ago when we were invited to discuss the possibility of sponsoring the club. From the off, both Fairway Homecare and the Embark Learning Care Academy were interested - but on one specific condition! 

“We wanted to explore how we could really engage with the club and the local community and how the club and the businesses would be able to develop an effective partnership, rather than merely appear on advertising boards and have our logos on the shirts. 

“During our time, we have now successfully trained 1,050 people who were previously unemployed, or hard to reach, facing barriers to entry or economically inactive, and have now achieved formal qualifications and work experience leading to more than one million hours of care capacity being added to the Birmingham workforce. 

“Some 23% of those learners had some form of disability and 25% of the learners were males – both hugely underrepresented groups within health and social care. So, between us all, we are making a massive difference to many thousands of people’s lives and families in an extremely positive fashion and are so delighted that collectively, Birmingham Moseley, Fairway and Embark Learning can all share in and celebrate that success. So, here’s to many more success stories coming from our learning centre at the rugby club, as well as the other bases we have around the West Midlands!”

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For more information about Embark Learning Care Academy or this press release, call Donna Clapp at Chicane on 07789 078710 or e-mail 

donna@chicane.marketing