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Celebrating Nursing Support Workers' Day with the launch of a new grant

The RCN Foundation and LV= have partnered to launch an education fund for healthcare support workers.

Thanks to a generous £20,000 donation from LV=, the RCN Foundation is running a two-year education fund for health care support workers who wish to develop their careers.

Whether you are a health care support worker, nursing support worker, health care assistant or care home worker – whichever role you hold or title you use – the RCN Foundation and LV= are proud to support you in your career.

That’s why we are launching the RCN Foundation LV= Education Grant. This grant will fund health care support workers who seek to advance their practice and develop new skills.

Each education grant, worth up to £1,600, can be used to cover the cost of a training module or short course in healthcare.

Courses that the grant can cover include: phlebotomy, cannulation, wound care, and taking an ECG.

Applications for the RCN Foundation LV education grant are open until Monday 23 January 2023.

You do not need to be a member of the RCN to apply. However, nursing apprentices are not eligible for this grant. Read the full criteria for applicants and submit your application here.

Please share this opportunity far and wide. Download our printable PDF flyer for your ward noticeboard or email list.

LV= General Insurance is working with the RCN Foundation to support and celebrate the healthcare team. If you'd like to learn more about their insurance services by clicking here or on the logo below:

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Supporting the support workers

The RCN Foundation provides education grants for health care support workers on an annual basis, through the RCN Foundation Kershaw Grant which opens for applications each spring.

We are delighted to add this education fund from LV= to the options available to the health care team for 2022 and 2023.

Deepa Korea, Director of the RCN Foundation, says ‘We know that things are not easy for health care support workers this year, and we are glad to be able to provide grants to make career development achievable.

‘We hope that information about this grant will be shared far and wide, so that the health care support team can access training and education modules they might not have been able to consider otherwise.

'We are very grateful indeed to LV= for the funding they have provided which has enabled us to establish this important grant programme.’

We hope that this fund will help health care support workers like Daniel, who used an RCN Foundation education grant to study a BSC in Children’s Nursing as part of his journey towards qualifying as a nurse.