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About this course
Open courses
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About this course
An all-new course designed to enable organisations to upskill their frontline staff in recognising, assessing for and prescribing minor aids and adaptations to reduce risk and promote independent living.
- The course is designed for professionals looking to enhance their abilities to support their customers. Learners typically include physiotherapists, nurses and social workers along with support staff such as technicians, care managers, reablement staff, support workers and occupational therapy assistants.
- The course is also suitable for urgent response services and discharge teams and any other staff wishing to update or learn new skills around assessing for minor adaptations and equipment provision.
What are the learning outcomes?
- Understand how impairment of function impacts on general well-being and the ability to perform a task
- Understand the significance of safety and risk throughout the process of equipment selection
- Understand the impact of the built environment when planning equipment provision
- Understand the impact of other family members when planning equipment provision
- Know a range of equipment solutions that can be used for clients
- Be able to measure for equipment and know when it is fitted correctly
- Know when to refer back to Occupational Therapy if a case is beyond the remit of a Trusted Assessor
- Be able to reflect on your own work.
How is it delivered?
This is a two-day face-to-face course which runs as a regular public course and can also be directly commissioned. Learners complete an assignment after the course to gain accreditation. The course is also available as an online course, learners work through a series of interactive E-learning modules at their own pace and to fit around other duties.
Open Courses
We are delighted to offer a calendar of our most popular courses designed for booking by individual learners who prefer learning face-to-face. We have chosen venues that we know well and that combine the advantages of great spaces for learning with the benefits of getting hands-on with a range of equipment. At these courses you will enjoy the blend of theory and practice and you can take advantage of the chance to network with peers during interactive sessions and in the refreshment breaks.
In the last 12 months, we have delivered training all across the UK, if you can’t find a suitable date please get in touch and we’ll see what we can do.
Upcoming 2025/26 Trusted Assessor courses:
- February 17th & 18th, London FULL
- February 23rd & 24th, North Wales
- March 3rd & 4th, London
- March 23rd & 24th, South Wales
- April 13th & 14th, Exeter
- April 14th, Derby (blended course)
- April 20th & 21st, Warrington
- April 27th & 28th, Warwick
- May 5th & 6th, London
- May 21st, Southampton (blended course)
- June 8th & 9th, Leeds
- June 16th, Bristol (blended course)
- September 7th & 8th, North Wales
- October 6th & 7th, London
- October 12th & 13th, Leeds
- November 2nd & 3rd, South Wales
- November 11th, Newcastle (blended course)
- December 7th & 8th, Warwick
- December 8th & 9th, London
- January 12th & 13th 2027, North Wales
- January 19th 2027, Hereford
- February 2nd & 3rd, North London
- March 1st & 2nd, South Wales
- March 3rd, Warrington
The role of Trusted Assessor was created over twenty years ago by the then Department of Health as a way of speeding up the safe provision of community equipment. A wide range of staff around the person with needs can be upskilled to undertake a simple assessment and to know when to refer more complex cases to an Occupational Therapist (OT). The Competency Framework for Trusted Assessors was devised to outline the skills needed to safely determine the equipment required, and the publication of Adaptations without Delay (2019) by Housing LIN and RCOT reinforced the profession’s commitment to the model.
You can download the Framework from our Resources page along with a range of other useful materials, reports, case studies and articles.
Who Can Become a Trusted Assessor?
If your work involves visiting older and disabled people at home, you can be trained to confidently identify and prescribe equipment, aids and adaptations that enable independent living. Trusted Assessors are now found in:
- Health teams
- Social care services
- Housing teams and providers
- Care providers
- Charities and other organisations supporting people at home
You can read case studies and download resources and surveys about who Trusted Assessors are on our website.
Additional Qualifications and Specialisms
Over the years, further qualifications have been developed to complement the core role and improve access to equipment and adaptations, including:
- Trusted Advisors – provide advice and signposting with confidence
- Trusted Installers – demonstrate and deliver equipment
- Courses for suppliers of equipment and adaptations
- Top-up courses for specialist areas such as:
- Seating
- Technology Enabled Care (TEC)
- Training Provided by TACT
Training provided by TACT
TACT’s trainers are all Occupational Therapists with a background in equipment and adaptations, ensuring high-quality delivery of Trusted Assessor courses.
All courses include:
- Access to 12 months of free webinars
- Ongoing knowledge top-ups
- Support during the transition to successful practice
If you need help identifying the most suitable course or want to tailor training to local requirements, please contact us.
We can also advise on:
- Governance
- Supervision
- Support structures for Trusted Assessor roles
Contact us
For more information about Trusted Assessor programmes, accredited training and wider programmes dealing with independent living please contact the TACT team, we love collaborating.
You can contact us by:
Phone: 01626 879 528
Email: info@trustedassessing.com
Or by filling in the form opposite.