Falls & Frailty CHAMPION – Application

Course fees: HCPA Full Member: Fully funded* | ACE Member: £264+VAT | Associate Member: £300+VAT | Non-member: £400+VAT
Four day programme open for applications
Day 1: 14/07/2026 | Day 2: 21/07/2026 | Day 3: 28/07/2026 | Day 4: 04/08/2026
All sessions must be attended

Lead Excellence in Care with HCPA Champions
Empower your team by developing experienced colleagues to become HCPA Champions – individuals who influence positive, high-quality change within their care services.

What is an HCPA Champion?
A Champion is a trained experienced care professional who drives improvements in care practices, embeds governance, and models excellence across the organisation.
The programmes equip Champions with the confidence, tools, and knowledge to influence change, support colleagues, and apply best practice consistently.
Champions revalidate every two years by evidencing change through action plans, case studies, and continuing professional development.

Why have Champions?
Care Managers cannot do everything, they need support from trusted staff to ensure the service remains compliant with evolving national and local guidance. Champions mentor peers, influence care delivery, and maintain elevated care standards through ongoing governance and learning.

We suggest care providers have a Champion in each relevant topic area. To ensure quality and focus, each individual may only be a Champion in up to two topic areas:

This Falls & Frailty CHAMPION course will enable Care professionals to take on the role of Champion within their organisation for this topic. The Champion will have a clear understanding of local and national guidance and legislation for and will cascade this information amongst care teams, improving the safety and quality of care for individuals.

Learning Outcomes:
• Define the role of a Falls and Frailty Champion and explain how this role benefits their organisation by promoting awareness, prevention, and safe practice.
• Describe the overlap between falls and frailty, the importance of awareness, and current legislation, guidance, and evidence-based approaches.
• Explain the differences between dementia and delirium, and their link to falls and frailty.
• Apply the SMART goal-setting process to create personalised plans aimed at reducing falls and managing frailty.
• Demonstrate how to identify and assess an risk of falls and frailty, and how to monitor and review these risks regularly.
• Demonstrate safe techniques for helping an individual to get up from the floor after a fall, following local care home fall pathway procedures.
• Analyse a range of effective interventions to reduce the risk of falls and frailty, considering both physical and mental health factors, and the importance of enabling care to prevent sedentary behaviour.
• Evaluate the role of community and multi-disciplinary support in managing falls and frailty, and identify appropriate referral and collaboration pathways.
• Assess the impact of falls prevention strategies and frailty management on individual wellbeing and care outcomes, recommending improvements where necessary.
• Develop a SMART goal-driven action plan to embed falls and frailty prevention into everyday care practices, ensuring evidence-based enabling care and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.

Find out more and apply here

Note – This is an application, not a booking. If approved, you will be invited to book.