Qualification as a company care guide

The need for care often catches relatives unprepared. To ensure that the compatibility of care and work can be implemented in companies in the best possible way, a qualification as a company care guide will be offered in Bocholt from 5-7 September 2022. The care guides provide support in organising all important matters such as care and support.

Initiative for reconciling care and work

The company care guide is a qualified contact person in the company who supports colleagues with their knowledge on the subject of care.

In Germany, 4.1 million people currently receive nursing care. Reconciling work and care is therefore particularly important, especially in view of demographic change and an ageing society.

How do you become a company care guide and what are the tasks?

The prerequisite is participation in a qualification programme to become a company care guide. The content of the qualification programme includes providing information on local support options and explaining the legal regulations, services and options offered by the employer. In addition, the guide is intended to help create sustainable care arrangements to reconcile professional tasks and caring responsibilities.

The qualification programme comprises a total of 22 teaching units and begins with an online introductory event, followed by two full-day face-to-face events. A subsequent refresher course (online) offers the opportunity for the care guides to exchange experiences and discuss cases with each other.

Free certification

The certification is offered by AOK NordWest in cooperation with the family education centres in Bocholt, Dülmen, Rheine and the business development agencies in Münsterland as part of an initiative by the state of NRW to reconcile work and care. The campaign is supported locally by the city of Bocholt, Bocholt's business development organisation and

Detailed information material in the form of a digital care kit (www.betrieblicher-pflegekoffer.de) is provided for counselling family carers in the company. The qualification is free of charge and all participants receive a certificate as a company care guide in NRW.

Overview of dates, contact and registration

The initiative is supported locally by the Bocholt and district economic development agency, the city of Bocholt and the family education centre. The FaBi accepts registrations for the qualification as a company care guide by e-mail at fabi-bocholt(at)bistum-muenster(dot)de. Registrations can also be made by telephone at the following contact addresses.

Dates of the qualification programme:

• 5.9.2022 18:00 - 20:15 (as a Zoom conference)
• 6/7 September 2022 09:00 - 16:30 (in presence)

Enquiries to:

• Mrs Köller, Business Development Agency Borken, Tel.: 02561/9 79 99 55
• Mr Koller, Bocholt Economic Development Agency, Tel.: 02871/29 49 33 21
• Mrs Schlütter, City of Bocholt, Tel.: 02871/953 670.