Health and Social Care Training Course
If you’re looking to start a career in health and social care, want a career change or are already working within the sector, this course can help. Covering important subjects within care, this course provides an in-depth understanding and ensures that all learners are successful in their chosen health and social care careers.
Our health and social care training courses cover the 15 standards of care.
The 15 Standards Of Care Courses:
Care 1: Understanding your role
Understanding your role within health and social care can help reduce stress, improve focus and productivity and ensure a happy workforce. This module can help employees and employers discover the boundaries of their roles and responsibilities within the care sector in line with the policies and procedures of their employer.
Care 2: Your personal development
Knowing your role and where you want your care career to take you can be difficult to discover. This module helps learners develop their abilities, knowledge of various career paths, and the skills and abilities needed to get there.
Care 3: Duty of care
Our duty of care module is designed to provide employers and employees with a thorough understanding of best practices within their duty to care. This module will provide a well-rounded understanding, including legal responsibilities, staff needs, and complaints handling.
Care 4: Equality and diversity
Equality and diversity in health and social care are essential for all carers. Everyone, including those from all minority groups, races or religions, is entitled to equal rights and levels of care. This course explores the various ways carers can uphold these standards for all.
Care 5: Working in a person-centred way
Working in a person-centred way is pivotal to providing the correct care to individuals, considering their independence, privacy, choice, and dignity. This module provides insight and understanding of how to care for everyone in a personalised way.
Care 6: Communication
Communication in health and social care is key to providing a great service. Being able to communicate your actions and reasons for them to those who receive care and their support network of professionals and family is a must. Listening and understanding what others are communicating is just as important. This is why this course focuses on all sides of communication to provide a well-rounded and thorough understanding of skills and techniques that learners will find invaluable.
Care 7: Privacy and dignity
Privacy and dignity in care are essential. Ensuring everyone is treated with dignity is pivotal to providing a great care service. This course delves into how you can ensure everyone you care for feels dignified and supported. Upholding a person’s privacy rights goes hand in hand with dignified care.
Care 8: Fluids and nutrition
Learners will develop the knowledge needed to ensure that every care receiver maintains the correct hydration and nutrition levels with the correct food and fluids per their care plan. This module teaches learners how to prepare and serve these safely.
Care 9: Awareness of mental health
This module explores the needs of those living with mental health conditions, dementia, learning disabilities and more. It ensures learners can provide the correct care to suit everyone in line with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Learners will develop the knowledge needed to provide positive care for those who live with any mental health-related issue and build a clear understanding of challenging behaviour and how to care for those who exhibit it.
Care 10: Safeguarding adults
This module provides a thorough understanding of how carers can protect adults within the care sector. Spotting the signs of abuse and how to minimise the risk is vital to ensure every adult is protected and cared for. Working to spot the signs of mistreatment or malpractice are vital. These may include pressure sores, which result from pressure being applied to the body. This course delves into spotting the signs and reporting them efficiently to protect the care receiver.
Care 11: Safeguarding children
This module provides a thorough understanding of how carers can protect adults within the care sector. Spotting the signs of abuse and how to minimise the risk is vital to ensure every adult is protected and cared for. Working to spot the signs of mistreatment or malpractice are vital. These may include pressure sores, which result from pressure being applied to the body. This course delves into spotting the signs and reporting them efficiently to protect the care receiver.
Care 12: Basic life support
Being able to provide basic life support with health and social care is a requirement of the UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines.
Care 13: Health and safety
Health and safety within social care is a serious matter, which is why this module is designed to give a thorough understanding of all elements of health and safety. This module provides a well-rounded understanding of risk assessments, safely moving patients who cannot move themselves, administering medications to safely handling hazardous substances, and dealing with sudden illnesses or accidents.
Care 14: Handling information
Handling information is vital in ensuring the correct care is continued and practised. This module explains legal documentation, storing accurate data and processing instructions for care.
Care 15: Infection prevention and control
Infection prevention and control within health and social care is a module designed for every care area, from hospitals to care homes. This module will expand employees’ and employers’ knowledge to help prevent the spread of infections. Should an infection occur, the right skills and expertise are needed to control the spread and reduce the risk to other patients.
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