Health and Social Care Training
Learning Outcomes:
- Principles of safeguarding adults
- Know how to recognise signs of abuse
- Know how to respond to suspected or alleged abuse
- Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse
- Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse
- Know how to recognise and report unsafe practices
- Understand principles for online safety
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Aims:
- Understanding MCA
- Identify the difference between DoLS and LPS and their implementation
- Follow the process and planning for making decisions
- Understanding deprivation of Liberty
- Identifying the role of an IMCA
- Follow the procedures for a mental capacity assessment
- Reduce the risks of deprivation of Liberty
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relate to positive behaviour support
- Understand the context and use of proactive and reactive strategies
- How to promote positive behaviour
- How to respond appropriately to incidents of challenging behaviour
- How to support individuals and others following an incident of challenging behaviour
- How to review and revise approaches to promoting positive behaviour
- Recognise the difference between conflict and behaviour that challenges
- Use a range of communication methods and techniques that can be used to support an individual
- Overcome communication barriers
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the need for secure handling of information in settings
- Understanding legislations related to handling information, GDPR, Human Rights, Care Act, Caldicott Principles
- Know how to handle information securely and confidently
- How to implement workplace data protection and confidentiality
- Understand what information is required to be recorded
- How to record information accurately and factually using appropriate language
- How to access information required to support the person appropriately
- Know how to access support for handling information
- How to handle information in accordance with agreed ways of working.
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand what makes up a balanced diet
- Understand nutritional guidelines
- How to promote nutrition in health and social care settings
- How to promote hydration in health and social care settings
- Understand how to prevent malnutrition in health and social care settings
- How to carry out nutritional screening in health and social care settings
- How to monitor and record nutrition and hydration needs with individuals in health and social care settings
- Understand factors that affect special dietary requirements in health and social care settings
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of oral health and the potential effect on their general health, wellbeing and dignity.
- Understand the potential impact of untreated dental pain or mouth infection on the behaviour, and general health and wellbeing of people who cannot articulate their pain or distress or ask for help. (This includes, for example, residents with dementia or communication difficulties.)
- Have an awareness of common oral health problems
- Recognise how poor oral care can affect an individual’s overall health
- Overcome barriers which individuals may face when seeking oral care
- How to use effective communication when encouraging active participation
- How to record oral hygiene and dental treatments
- Know how and when to reassess oral health.
- Know how to deliver daily mouth care.
- Know how and when to report any oral health concerns, and how to respond to a person’s changing needs and circumstances
- Understand the importance of denture marking and how to arrange this for people, with their permission
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the application of person-centred approaches in care settings
- How to work in a person-centred way
- How to establish consent when providing care or support
- How to implement and promote active participation and encourage active participation in all tasks and activities
- How to support the individual’s right to make choices, maintain the dignity, respect and privacy of the individual
- f) How to handle hygiene activities sensitively
- g) How to follow all unique plans in place
- h) How to promote individuals’ well-being
- i) Understand the role of risk-assessment in enabling a person-centred approach
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- a) Understand the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings
- b) Know about common types of medication and their use
- c) Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings
- d) Understand techniques for administering medication
- e) Understand how to receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely
- f) Know how to promote the rights of the individual when managing medication
- g) g) Understand how to support use of medication
- h) How to administer specific medicines such as patches, creams, inhalers, eye drops and liquids.
- i) Understand how to record and report on use of medication
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
- How to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
- How to overcome barriers to communication
- How to apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality
- Understand an individual’s specific communication needs
- Understand how to support the use of communication technology and aids
- How to contribute to identifying and addressing specific communication needs of individuals
- How to interact with individuals using their preferred communication method
- How to review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the principles that underpin dignity in care.
- How to maintain the dignity, respect and privacy of the individual
- How to become confident in providing person centred approaches for care and support
- How to establish consent when providing care and support and the processes to follow when this cannot be established
- How to encourage active participation in all tasks and activities
- How to support the individual’s right to make choices
- How to work in a way that protects and respects the persons privacy
- How to handle hygiene activities sensitively
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
- How to work in an inclusive way
- How to promote diversity, equality and inclusion
- Understand standards and legislations that relate to Equality and Diversity
- Equality Act 2010
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand dementia
- understand models of dementia
- Know types of dementia and their causes and symptoms of dementia
- Understand an individual’s experience of dementia
- Understand key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia
- Understand why depression, delirium and age-Related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia
- Understand the medical model of dementia and the social model of dementia
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the protection of the rights of individuals and others through the legislative framework relating to end of life care
- Understand factors that have an impact on end of life care
- Understand the use of advance care planning in end of life care
- Understand the management of symptoms and pain in end of life care
- Understand how individuals and others can be supported during end of life care
- Understand the role of organisations, community and support services relevant to end of life care
- Understand actions which follow the death of an individual
- Understand how to manage own feelings relating to the dying or death of individuals
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Health Social and Care Qualifications
The Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care is a 58 credit qualification. This diploma is aimed at developing the knowledge, skills and competence of learners working in different roles in a health and social care setting. It’s main purpose is to support the carer’s role in the workplace and to enable them to progress with their career.
There is 9 mandatory units at level 3 :
- Promote communication in care settings
- Promote effective handling of information in care settings
- Promote personal development in care settings
- Promote person-centred approaches in care settings
- Promote equality and inclusion in care settings
- Promote health, safety and wellbeing in care settings
- Responsibilities of a care worker
- Duty of care in care settings
- Safeguarding and protection in care settings
Learners can select a pathway that suits their role - for example, mental health, Leadership, Mentoring, Dementia, Learning Disabilities, Challenging Behaviour, Elderly, Domiciliary and General pathways
Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care is 46 credits qualification and is designed to guide and assess the development of knowledge and skills relating to the health and social care workforce and can be used to confirm competence in these areas in a wide range of job roles. This qualification is designed to equip learners with the skills and knowledge needed to care for others in a broad range of health or social care settings.
There is 9 mandatory units at level 2 :
- Introduction to communication in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
- Introduction to personal development in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
- Introduction to equality and inclusion in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
- Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care
- The role of the health and social care worker
- Implement person-centred approaches in health and social care
- Contribute to health and safety in health and social care
- Handle information in health and social care settings
- Introduction to duty of care in health, social care or children's and young people's settings.
Learners can select a pathway that suits their role - for example, mental health, Dementia, Learning Disabilities, Challenging Behaviour, Elderly, Domiciliary and General pathways
Health and Safety Training
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of food safety measures when providing food and drink for individuals.
- How to maintain hygiene when handling food and drink.
- How to meet safety requirements when preparing and serving food and drink for individuals.
- How to meet safety requirements when clearing away food and drink.
- How to store food and drink safely
- Know how to access additional advice or support about food safety.
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
- How to carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
- How to reduce the spread of infection
- How to move and handle equipment and other objects safely
- How to handle hazardous substances and materials
- How to promote fire safety in the work setting
- How to implement security measures in the work setting
- Know how to manage stress
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand own and others roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections
- Understand legislation and policies relating to prevention and control of infections
- Understand systems and procedures relating to the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the prevention and control of infections
- Understand the importance of good personal hygiene in the prevention and control of infections
This course can be adapted to include your values, mission statement as well as policies and procedures. It is also designed to fully meet the related regulatory CQC compliance standards against which your service may be assessed. This course also follows Skills for Care guidelines and the Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOE’s) and CQC Fundamental Standards.