Homecare Management Course

Course Duration: One Month- (7 hrs per day Mon-Friday)

The Homecare Management Course is intended to equip the trainee with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that will enable him/her to effectively manage and perform duties and operations of homecare services in private households, children homes, hospitals, hostels and boarding institutions both locally and abroad.

It will also help the trainee to identify, evaluate and control workplace hazards and advice employers accordingly.

The trainers are encouraged to continuously carry out research to establish the emerging trends and issues and integrate them in the teaching.

The course includes mandatory units i.e. Life Skills and Home Care in order to enhance interpersonal relationship and positive work ethics. It also has two optional units in Childcare and Homecare Nursing.

Pre-departure Training is a mandatory unit for workers who have secure employment in foreign countries.

Homecare practical training

Home Care Management Course targets those with a minimum of Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) or equivalent qualifications to prepare them to perform duties as salaried or self-employed workers. This curriculum has been developed in line with other National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) industrial training curricula.

Course content

The Homecare Management is packaged in five stand-alone units comprising of:

1. Basic Mandatory units

• Homecare
• Life Skills

2. Optional unit

• Childcare
• Homecare Nursing
• Food and nutrition

3. Mandatory unit for foreign migrant workers

Pre-departure Training