Mandatory Training For Care

Our CPD Accredited Mandatory Care Training Course for care workers and care staff encompasses a robust curriculum designed to address all the essential areas necessary for effective and compliant care provision.

Below is an outline of the course content, with each module elaborated to highlight its importance and objectives:

• Equality, Diversity, and Human Rights: Dive into the principles of equality and inclusion, understanding the importance of promoting diversity and recognizing the human rights of individuals. This module will prepare you to create an environment where everyone’s beliefs and values are respected and where discrimination is challenged.

• Health, Safety, and Welfare: This crucial module ensures you are well-versed in workplace health and safety legislation. You will learn about common hazards and risks, as well as the procedures for responding to accidents and illness in a care setting.

• Infection Prevention and Control: Gain detailed insights into the principles of infection control, the importance of personal hygiene, and learn how to implement effective control measures, including the correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Safeguarding Adults Level 1: Develop the knowledge to recognize the signs of abuse and understand your role in the safeguarding process. You will be trained on how to respond to suspected or disclosed abuse, in accordance with national policies.

• Safeguarding Children Level 1: Learn about the key concepts of safeguarding children, identifying types of abuse, and understanding the importance of acting in the best interest of the child, making timely referrals to the appropriate services.

• Basic Life Support Including Resuscitation: This life-saving module will teach you the fundamentals of basic life support, CPR techniques for adults, children, and infants, and managing choking emergencies, equipping you with the confidence to react in life-threatening situations.

• Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disabilities: Increase your awareness of mental health conditions, understand the challenges faced by individuals with dementia, and explore approaches to support those with learning disabilities.

• Communication: Communication is key in caregiving. Enhance your listening and speaking skills to ensure that you can communicate effectively with service users, colleagues, and external parties while maintaining confidentiality.

• Duty of Care: Explore the concept of duty of care and understand how it influences your work. You will learn about dealing with dilemmas and conflicts, as well as the importance of working in the best interests of those who require care and support.

• Information Governance: Delve into handling information in a healthcare setting, including the legal requirements surrounding information security, data protection, and how to appropriately share information.

• Nutrition and Hydration: Learn about the fundamentals of good nutrition and hydration, the importance of a balanced diet, and how to recognize signs of poor nutrition and dehydration to maintain the health of those in your care.

• Privacy and Dignity: This module will teach you to support individuals to maintain their privacy and dignity, recognising the importance of privacy and personal space, and promoting independence wherever possible.

• Understanding Your Role: Get clarity on your responsibilities as a care worker, including understanding your job description, working within professional boundaries, and the importance of working with others in a care team.

• Work in a Person-Centred Way: This component is focused on understanding person-centred values, applying it to practice and working with care plans to ensure that individuals are at the centre of their care.

• Your Personal Development: Recognizing the importance of ongoing personal development, this module encourages reflective practice, identifying learning opportunities and creating a personal development plan to enhance your skills continuously.

Each of these modules is designed to be engaging and interactive, using real-world scenarios to ensure that the knowledge you gain is practical and easily applicable in your day-to-day work. Upon completion, you will be equipped not just to meet the requisite standards set by regulatory bodies like the CQC, but to exceed them, demonstrating the highest level of care and professionalism