Mandatory Training For Care Assistants

As care assistants, your engagement in our CPD Accredited Mandatory Training is crucial for delivering exceptional care and complying with established care standards. This comprehensive training comprises various modules, each tailored to enhance your skills and knowledge in specific care areas:

• Equality, Diversity, and Human Rights: Understand how to honour and protect each individual’s unique background and rights while actively preventing discrimination.

• Health, Safety, and Welfare: Master the essentials of workplace health and safety laws, effectively assess risks, and manage incidents in the care environment.

• Infection Prevention and Control: Learn to uphold hygiene standards, prevent infections, and correctly utilise personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Safeguarding Adults in Care Homes: Detect signs of abuse, comprehend your role in adult safeguarding, and respond correctly.

• Safeguarding Children Level 1: Identify various forms of child abuse and ensure a rapid, child-focused response to any issues that arise.

• Basic Life Support Including Resuscitation: Acquire critical life-saving techniques including CPR for adults, children, and infants, and learn how to handle choking emergencies.

• Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disabilities: Increase your understanding of the challenges faced by individuals with mental health issues, dementia, or learning disabilities, and learn supportive practices.

• Communication: Enhance your communication skills to effectively interact with care recipients, team members, and other stakeholders while maintaining confidentiality.

• Duty of Care: Grasp your obligation to act in the best interests of those you care for, and learn to manage conflicts or ethical dilemmas.

• Information Governance: Understand laws and best practices for handling information, ensuring data protection and privacy.

• Nutrition and Hydration: Learn about the importance of a balanced diet and adequate hydration, and how to recognise signs of nutritional deficiencies.

• Privacy and Dignity: Maintain the privacy and dignity of those you support, fostering independence and respect for personal boundaries.

• Understanding Your Role: Define your responsibilities, understand professional boundaries, and appreciate the importance of teamwork in a care setting.

• Work in a Person-Centred Way: Implement person-centred care principles to ensure care recipients are at the heart of all care decisions.

• Your Personal Development: Commit to continuous learning and reflective practice to enhance your caregiving skills.

• Medication Management in Care Homes: Master the essential practices for managing medication, ensuring safe storage, accurate record-keeping, and meticulous administration to protect residents’ health and avoid errors.

Interactive scenarios within each module will allow you to apply your new skills directly to daily activities in your role. Upon completing this training, you will be well-equipped to meet and surpass Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards, showcasing outstanding care and professionalism.