Other events
Delivered by OACP partners and stakeholders
List of Services
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Everyday English & Cultural Awareness
Designed for carers from overseas in partnership with SESCA.
An online course over 6 weeks with a live trainer, 10 - 11.30am, each Wednesday for 6 weeks, from 15 October 2025 - 19 November 2025.
This is the training that we have offered to workers registered with the IR scheme in the SE region, and we have had excellent feedback on it.
RecruitMatch have agreed to offer a special price of £150 to providers who book it for their staff.
Providers should contact RecruitMatch directly if they have any questions.
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Care Sector Cyber Series
Tuesday 4 November
10 - 11 am
Care Sector Cyber Series
Delivered by the Cyber Resilience Centre Network - free police-led webinar for the UK Care Sector.
Session 3: Learn to spot everyday mistakes, encourage "speak up" habits and embed awareness in daily routines.. Includes live Q&A.
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Market Position Statement
Thursday 6 November
10 am - 12.30 pm
Kidlington
Oxfordshire County Council are updating their Market Position Statement. Join them and OACP to hear what the needs requirements are for the coming years and contribute to the discussion about service requirements.
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International Recruitment
Wednesday 12 November
10 - 11.30 am
Following the hugely successful webinar series, this next webinar will be delivered by immigration experts at Lester Aldridge Solicitors.
Open to all registered providers in the South-East, the webinar will offer practical guidance addressing key challenges including:
- Sponsoring in-country migrant workers
- Undefined CoS applications
- Visa renewals
- Employing sponsored staff on a secondary employment basis
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Employment Rights Bill - is your care business ready?
Tuesday 13 November
10 - 11 am
The Employment Rights Bill represents the biggest overhaul of employment law in over 50 years and is set to significantly rebalance the employer - employee relationship.
Now is the time to start considering how the changes could impact your care business and how you are going to implement them. Join RWK Goodman and Virgin Money for a webinar to cover the key changes in the Bill affecting care providers, as follows:
- Fair Pay Agreements for care workers
- Regulation of zero hours contracts
- Unfair dismissal from day one
- New rights for trade unions
- Sick pay eligibility reform
- Fire and re-hire: restrictions on changing terms and conditions.
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Careers Festival
Wednesday 26 November
11 am - 3 pm
Oxfordshire
Join us for a dynamic Careers Festival aimed at young people currently studying health and care courses locally.
This event brings together local care providers and students to help them with first steps into social care employment.
This event is organised by LSIP Oxfordshire and LSIP Berkshire in collaboration with local partners, including OACP.
More details - see Networks & Events drop down menu
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The preceptor role in practice
Thursday 27 November
(3 hours – different time on each date)
Only need to attend one
This autumn a series of free sessions aimed at supporting your organisation to run a successful nursing preceptorship programme.
Preceptorship programmes are a vital part of the support required to recruit and retain registered nurses and nursing associates who are new to the NMC register.
Nursing preceptorship is a structured period of support and development for newly registered nurses and nursing associates as they transition into their professional roles.
It is designed to smooth the transition into the workforce, promote safe, effective, and confident practice and foster a sense of belonging and professional identity. Newly qualified nursing staff are called ‘preceptees’ and are supported by more experienced nursing staff who act as ‘preceptors’.
The preceptorship series is designed to enable organisations to put a programme of preceptorship in place and utilise the existing knowledge and skills of their experienced nursing staff who can provide preceptorship leadership and act as preceptors for newly qualified staff.
There are two separate sessions, running through September, October and November, for those people in your nursing team who could carry out the following roles - one would be a preceptorship lead, who would lead on this for the organisation, and then other nursing staff who could act as preceptors.
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DSPT walk-through (face-to-face)
Thursday 27 November
10.30 am - 2.30 pm
Dinton Pastures, Wokingham
A chance to step through DSPT completion with support from the Berks, Oxon and Bucks digital team).
A light lunch will be provided.
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School careers fairs
Find local events run by Oxfordshire schools that need employers to talk to young people about career prospects.


