Support workers in care home services for adults can now apply to register with the SSSC. Care home services for adults include services regulated by the Care Commission such as care homes, nursing homes and adult residential homes. All workers in care home services for adults should now be applying to register.

Registration of the workforce makes sure that people who use services are protected and workers can rely on a trained and trusted workforce. The SSSC is responsible for registering key groups of social service workers and support workers in care home services for adults are the next phase to be able to register.

Derek Phaup, Service Manager Older Peoples Provision at East Lothian Council explains the benefits of registration:

“We see registration as a positive step in the professionalism within care home settings and it begins to acknowledge the professionalism and skills staff have achieved throughout their careers. As a council we look forward to other front line staff taking up registration through the SSSC and having their skills acknowledged.”

Workers who apply to register with the SSSC must agree to abide by the SSSC Code of Practice for Social Service Workers, undergo an enhanced Disclosure Scotland check and will need to have or gain a relevant qualification agreed by the SSSC. However workers who don’t already hold a relevant qualification but meet all other registration criteria, you can still be registered on the condition that you gain the qualification within a specified period of time. This is normally the first three years of the initial registration period.

For further information regarding registration or to request registration packs, please contact the SSSC on 0845 60 30 891 or email registration@sssc.uk.com