New to care training

These courses are tailored for individuals new to social care, covering key areas like communication, safeguarding, and understanding your role. You’ll learn about equality, diversity, personal development, and person-centred care. Topics also include nutrition, mental health, life support, and infection control, along with specialized areas like medication management and end-of-life care. Completing these courses equips you with the skills needed to deliver high-quality, compassionate care.

Care Certificate Courses

1. Understand Your Role

This course provides an introduction to the responsibilities of a care worker within different settings, including understanding their role and working relationships in adult social care. You will gain knowledge about working in ways that align with the employer’s expectations and the importance of working in partnership with others.

2. Your Personal Development

Explore how to map out your career path by developing a personal development plan. This course emphasizes continuous personal improvement and learning in your role, including setting goals for enhancing your knowledge and skills.

3. Duty of Care

Learn about your duty of care responsibilities, including understanding support mechanisms for addressing dilemmas, dealing with comments and complaints, handling incidents, and preventing confrontation. Includes training on duty of candour, ensuring transparency in the event of errors.

4. Equality and Diversity

Understand the significance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in your care practice. You will learn the principles of human rights legislation and how to promote an inclusive environment that respects the diversity of individuals.

5. Work in a Person Centred Way

Discover the principles and practices of person-centred care and how to implement them in daily practice. This includes supporting individuals’ choices and participation, understanding mental capacity, and promoting overall well-being and identity.

6. Communication

This course explores the importance of effective communication in a care setting. Learn how to meet the communication needs of individuals through various methods including communication aids and technologies, while maintaining confidentiality.

7. Privacy and Dignity

Gain insight into the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care. This course teaches you how to maintain individuals’ privacy, support their choices, and sustain their active participation in their own care.

8. Fluids and Nutrition

Understand the principles of good nutrition and hydration and learn how to support individuals in maintaining a healthy intake. This course highlights the importance of recognising and addressing dietary needs and preferences.

9. Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disability

Learn about the importance of early identification of mental health conditions and dementia. This course covers personalised care for individuals with mental health conditions, dementia, autism, or learning disabilities, and how to meet their unique communication and information needs.

10. Safeguarding Adults

Explore the principles and practices of safeguarding adults. Understand how to protect individuals from abuse and harm, and learn about local and national safeguarding frameworks and procedures.

11. Safeguarding Children

This course covers the essential knowledge and skills needed to safeguard children. Learn how to identify signs of abuse and respond appropriately to protect children from harm.

12. Basic Life Support

Gain vital life-saving skills in basic life support. This course covers CPR, first aid procedures, and responses to medical emergencies to ensure you are prepared to act swiftly and effectively in critical situations.

13. Health and Safety

Learn how to promote and maintain health and safety in your care setting. This includes understanding fire safety, infection prevention, and control measures to create a safe environment for both carers and those receiving care.

14. Handling Information

This course focuses on the secure handling of information in care settings. Understand your responsibilities under GDPR, confidential handling of personal data, and how to prevent and respond to cyber security threats.

15. Infection Prevention and Control

Understand best practices for infection prevention and control, ensuring a healthy and safe environment for everyone. This course includes procedures for reducing the spread of infections and maintaining high hygiene standards.

Additional Care Courses

Positive Behavioural Support

Focus on strategies for supporting positive behaviour and managing challenging behaviour in care settings, ensuring a supportive environment tailored to individuals’ needs.

Medication Management in Social Care

Detailed training on safe medication practices in social care, including handling, storing, and administering medications accurately and safely.

Medication Administration

This course covers the skills required to administer medication safely, understanding dosages, methods of administration, and monitoring effects.

Moving and Handling Objects/People

Learn safe techniques for moving and handling both objects and people to prevent injury and ensure the safety of all involved.

Managing Oral Health

Understand the importance of oral health in overall well-being and learn how to support individuals in maintaining good oral hygiene.

Person Centred Care

A comprehensive course that dives deeper into person-centred care practices, ensuring care plans are tailored to individual needs and preferences.

End of Life Care

Learn compassionate and practical approaches to providing end-of-life care, supporting individuals and their families during this sensitive time.

Personal Care Planning

This course highlights the importance of developing personal care plans that are responsive to an individual’s evolving needs and preferences.

Fire Safety Awareness

Gain essential knowledge on fire safety practices, including prevention, response, and evacuation procedures in care settings.

Stress and Burnout

Understand the causes and effects of stress and burnout, and learn techniques for managing and mitigating these to maintain well-being in care environments.

GDPR

An in-depth look at GDPR and its implications for handling personal data in the care sector, ensuring compliance with data protection laws.

Cyber Security and Fraud

Learn how to protect sensitive data from cyber threats and understand the measures to prevent and respond to fraud.

Food Hygiene and Safety

Ensure safe food handling practices, understanding the principles of food hygiene to prevent foodborne illnesses and ensure the well-being of those in your care.

Duty of Candour

Focus on maintaining transparency and integrity in care settings, including how to handle errors and omissions ethically.

By completing these courses, you’ll build a comprehensive knowledge base and a skill set that ensures high-quality care tailored to individual needs while adhering to best practices and legal requirements.