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What is a care pilot? Training, benefits, further training

Many employees are faced with the task of reconciling work and care. These employees often have high levels of absenteeism, partly because the psychological strain is enormous. Train your employees to become care guides and strengthen your employees' work capacity and motivation in the long term.

What does a care guide do?

Having a relative in need of care raises questions for many employees and makes the balancing act between work and private life more difficult. As a rule, HR departments can only provide limited support to those affected.

Company care guides provide quick and uncomplicated support and initial orientation. They are confidants and provide advice to colleagues. In addition, they provide information on the topic of care within the company and develop measures to improve the compatibility of care and work.

What are the benefits for employers?

1. make care visible - a clear appreciation of employees

By using care guides, you add a new dimension to the compatibility of family and career. It becomes clear that, in addition to parents, people with caring relatives also make an enormously important contribution to society.

2. your internal and external figurehead

Unlike many employee retention and recruitment measures, the work of the care pilot has a face and a name. As a fixed point of contact, they are visible to colleagues and can be approached at any time. For new employees in particular, this offer stands for trust and humanity.

3. less absenteeism due to close supervision

Timely information and quick advice in acute care cases can reduce or even prevent absences from work for the employees concerned.

4. sustainable OHM - focusing on the health of employees

A care situation is always changing. Long-term support from colleagues can help to identify physical and mental overload among employees in good time and measures can be introduced to relieve the strain. 

"I was immediately drawn to the training course to become a company care pilot at pme Familienservice . At that time, there were emergency care situations in my private life and among my immediate circle of colleagues that made me realize how little preparation there was for an emergency and how difficult it is to navigate through the jungle of paragraphs and forms under pressure. 

I found the format of the training very successful. It was easy to integrate into everyday working life and at the same time took into account the scope of the topic. The speakers were characterized by their enormous expertise and conveyed the material in an understandable and extremely entertaining way. Company care guides can effectively support employees in reconciling care and work. This also serves to protect their mental health and is an appreciation of the important contribution they make to home care."

Ulla Goldmann, Human Resources Management, Thüga Aktiengesellschaft

Training as a care guide: Contents

The training consists of six 2-hour sessions.

In a mix of lecture, film, expert interview, moderated exchange and discussion, we will work together with you on the following topics:

Our experienced instructors have studied social pedagogy or nursing science or are trained nursing consultants. To ensure the impeccable technical quality of our training, each course is attended by a course instructor and a moderator. All participants also receive a digital training folder.

Further information and registration

You can find all current dates, more detailed information and the costs of further training on this page:

Company care guides