Care Certificate

Duration: Four Full Days

The Care Certificate is the start of the career journey and is only one element of the training and education that will make them ready to practice within their specific sector.

1. Understand your role
2. Your personal development
3. Duty of care
4. Equality and diversity
5. Work in a person centred way
6. Communication
7. Privacy and dignity
8. Fluids and nutrition
9. Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
10. Safeguarding adults
11. Safeguarding children
12. Basic life support
13. Health and safety
14. Handling information
15. Infection prevention and control

Safeguarding of Vunerable Adults

Duration: Half-Day

The module is relevant to those working with vulnerable adults. The topic areas explored include:

• ​History and social policy of safeguarding vulnerable adults
• Legal influences
• Classification of abuse
• Multi-agency collaboration
• Research and evidence
• Human trafficking, prostitution and asylum seekers
• Advocacy
• Mental health
• Disability

Communication and Record Keeping

Duration: Half-Day

Records in health and social care settings may be required as legal documents. This is just one reason why anyone completing or using records needs to know how to use them properly.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, such as QCF or the Care Certificate, this is a thorough course in proper  record keeping (written communication) training, the way you want it to be.

Confidentiality

Duration: Half-Day

This course will improve your understanding of confidentiality, giving you the practical support and advice you need to ensure you are satisfying your confidentiality responsibilities. As a health or social care worker you have access to private and personal information about those in your care.

Do you know who has a legitimate need to know this information? Do you understand your legal duty to protect confidentiality? If not, this is the ideal course to expand and develop your knowledge, to ensure you are fulfilling your duty of care.

COSHH

Duration: Half-Day

We have successfully made CoSHH training meaningful and interesting, injecting life into the subject so that your colleagues understand why it matters and importantly, how to work appropriately.

Succinctly and practically, the course addresses legislative needs and practical approaches, which makes the training effective. This makes it ideal for induction and vocational qualifications, for example, QCF and the Care Certificate.

Equality and Diversity

Duration: Half-Day

This course will help you understand fair and balanced approaches to delivering health or social care in ways that properly reflect diversity and equality. It is a practical, sensible, mature and understandable explanation of the issues and how to work with those issues on a day to day basis.

Diversity and equality training will help colleagues see diversity and equality in a fresh way that they should feel comfortable putting into practice. It’s the perfect resource for induction, refresher, management and vocational training, for example QCF and the Care Certificate.

Fire Safety Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

Fire Safety training for staff is a legal requirement in the UK under the regulatory reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. This course is ideal for all staff who need a basic understanding of fire safety, their legal responsibilities and how to use fire extinguishers.

Food Hygiene

Duration: Half-Day

By law, everyone who handles food, in any way, must have relevant food hygiene (food safety) training. This course is the most comprehensive health and social care specific food hygiene training course. It is legally compliant and promotes best practice, in order to keep people safe. Without doubt, if you’re a health or social care organisation, this is the online course you’re looking for.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, such as QCF or the Care Certificate, this is a course you will find invaluable, plus, it’s ready to use, right now!

Health and Safety

Duration: Half-Day

This is legally compliant, health and social care specific health and safety training. We genuinely believe it beats any safety training you’ve experienced before.

Concise, comprehensive, clear, straightforward, easy to use and not boring (unlike some health and safety training you may have experienced!). As a result, it encourages health and social care workers to put the course into practice, improving the quality of your health or social care provision.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, for example QCF and the Care Certificate, this is health and safety training you’ll really appreciate.

Infection Control

Duration: Half-Day

This is legally compliant, health and social care specific health and safety training. We genuinely believe it beats any safety training you’ve experienced before.

Concise, comprehensive, clear, straightforward, easy to use and not boring (unlike some health and safety training you may have experienced!). As a result, it encourages health and social care workers to put the course into practice, improving the quality of your health or social care provision.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, for example QCF and the Care Certificate, this is health and safety training you’ll really appreciate.

Loss and Bereavement

Duration: Half-Day

If you are working with people who have recently suffered a loss, life histories can help them through the grieving process. Put a loved one’s life and death into a greater context. Find meaning through reminiscence therapy session. You can add these corner stones of any good service, to yours. The course is designed to provide those who attend the skills needed to conduct life histories lead reminiscence sessions.

By the end of the course those who attend will be able to:

1. Facilitate life history sessions
2. Facilitate a variety of group and one to one reminiscence sessions
3. Conduct a practical assessment, evaluate sessions and reflect

Medication Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

A medication awareness course will take you through a number of different aspects of drugs and medication. Courses tend to be for people who are just getting into this field or those who are requiring a refresher course either by choice or as a compulsory measure. Modules on courses range from the dispensing methods and procedures, as well as medical record keeping and the proper disposal of expired medication, in line with legislation, of which you will also be taught on.

Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberties Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

Working properly with people who may lack what is known as, “mental capacity” is expected of health and social care providers, which requires training. This course makes mental capacity straightforward to understand and work with, in a legally compliant manner.

Thorough and informative, it is put across in plain language, which makes is easy to understand. Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, for example QCF or the Care Certificate, this is a course you will find extremely useful.

Nutrition Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

Quality care provision means health and social care workers need to understand the vital importance of nutrition and diet in care provision. This comprehensive course promotes healthy eating as part of an individual’s wellbeing within health and social care situations.

Put across in an interesting and clear way, it is an easy to understand course and one that is enjoyable to put into practice. Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, for example QCF and the Care Certificate, this is the online option for healthcare related nutrition and diet training.

Palliative Care

Duration: Half-Day

Topics covered on this module include:

• Management of pain and other distressing symptoms
• End of life tools/models
• Palliative care assessment process
• Multi-disciplinary team work
• Support mechanisms for patient’s families and carers
• Palliative care in specific environments
• The role of advanced care planning

People Moving and Handling

Duration: Half-Day

This course is probably the most straightforward training in health and social care related handling assessment you will have experienced, whether online or otherwise. It is fully compliant and specifically developed for health and social care settings.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, such as QCF or the Care Certificate, this is top quality handling assessment training, put across in a way that makes it easily “doable”.

Administering Medication

Duration: Half-Day

We are delighted to be in the position of being able to offer you a very comprehensive medication administration training. Satisfying current standards, this course will help you get medication administration right, first time, every time. Put across logically, in bite size pieces, people understand it, learn from it and can put best medication practices into daily use.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, for example QCF and the Care Certificate, this is medication administration training you will want to use time after time.

Person Centred Care

Duration: Half-Day

This course explains what person centred care is about and how to put that into practice. This course is easy to understand and straightforward to put into practice – exactly what you want training to be. It’s a refreshingly information-filled course with lots of practical guidance on day-to- day person-centred care in health and social care situations.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, such as QCF or the Care Certificate, this is person centred care training you will want to use time after time

Risk Assessment

Duration: Half-Day

The course takes you, step by step, through the risk assessment process in a clear and logical manner. You will know how to spot, record, report and manage risks in order to prevent harm. Many possible risk areas are highlighted and explained making this a uniquely interesting and extremely useful training resource.

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, for example QCF and the Care Certificate, this is compliance training you will find extremely helpful.

Stress Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

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Stroke Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

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Ageing Process

Duration: Half-Day

This course is aimed at all staff working in the care environment who work with older people. A general
understanding of the ageing process will be established and attendees will gain under-pinning knowledge of the
following topics:

• Working with Older People
• Changing Needs of Individuals
• Understanding the Ageing Process

Wound Assessment Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

This course is for staff currently working within the health care sector. Candidates will benefit from having knowledge of wound assessment and an understanding of causes, stages, treatment and risk factors associated with a service user with a wound.

First Aid Awareness

Duration: Half-Day

All health and social care workers should be "first aid aware" (legally different to being a “first aider”).

This course is ideal for first aid awareness training, management awareness, first aider refreshing and vocational training such as QCF and the Care Certificate.

It is the perfect first aid awareness course for induction and, for that purpose, is compliant with current legislative requirements.

Communication Skills for LD staff

Duration: Half-Day

This module will provide a contemporary overview of the needs of people with a learning disability. We will briefly consider definitions, terms and prevalence and historical perspectives before exploring in more depth the changing picture of needs, models of care and the principles on which care is based.

A number of concepts introduced in this module will be returned to throughout the learning resource such as person centred approaches to care, inter-professional working and maximising opportunities for people with learning disabilities and complex needs.

Advocacy for Care staff

Duration: Half-Day

The aim of this unit is to support learners to develop practical skills and knowledge required to provide
Independent Advocacy as introduced within the Care Act 2014.

• Understand the purpose, the main provision and the principles of the Care Act 2014
• Understand legislation which affects the provision of independent advocacy under the Care Act 2014
• Understand the role of the advocate as required by the Care Act 2014
• Be able to provide independent advocacy support under the Care Act 2014
• Be able to raise concerns and challenge decisions made by the local authority as required by the Care Act 2014