Care Certificate

52 Lessons

6 hours 17 mins

Complexity : Easy

This course is designed for new employees who will be working in the health and social care professions. It covers all 15 of the different standards that make up the Care Certificate. This course will teach you the core skills that are required in your professional role to give quality care in the field of health and social care, and it will provide these skills to you.

All concerning this course:

Employees in the health and social care sectors ought to possess the abilities, know-how, and attitudes needed to deliver compassionate, high-standard care in a safe and secure environment. For those who are new to the field of health and social care or for new employees who are currently employed there, the Care Certificate is an essential component of training and development. Assessing current employees in comparison to the Care Certificate requirements may also prove beneficial for certain organizations.

In response to the conclusions of the Cavendish Review, which was released in July 2013, the Care Certificate was established in April 2015. The Cavendish Review discovered inconsistencies and inadequacies in health and social care training and development. To raise the standard of instruction, Health Education England, Skills for Care, and Skills for Health collaborated to create the Care Certificate.

Health and social care providers are expected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to properly induct, support, and teach their staff. Businesses can show the CQC that they are adhering to these standards by including the Care Certificate in their introduction course.

There are fifteen standards in the Care Certificate. To get your certificate, you must fully fulfill each of these requirements. The Care Certificate's fifteen requirements are as follows:

The Code of Conduct for Adult Social Care and Healthcare Support Workers in England is considered in these fifteen criteria. The "6Cs" of England are care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment, according to the Chief Nursing Officer.

As a new hire, the Care Certificate ought to be a component of your onboarding process. The knowledge acquisition required for the Care Certificate is supported by this online course. In order to properly execute the certificate's learning objectives, your employer must additionally evaluate your abilities in the workplace using the Care Certificate Standards. As part of your studies, you can also finish the tasks in the Skills for Care Workbook.

After completing the course, which should take about 15 hours, you will receive 15 CPD points, and your certificate will be valid for two years.

Written by specialists in the fields of health and social care
addresses the fifteen distinct care criteria.
Ideal for those in the social and healthcare sectors
Upon course completion, you can instantly access your PDF certificate.
Take the multiple-choice online tests as many times as necessary in order to succeed.

Lessons

Understanding Your Role in Care CC
Easy
2 mins
Waleed Khalid

Understanding your role in care involves recognizing your responsibilities and duties within a healthcare setting. It necessitates actively engaging in patient-centered care, adhering to professional standards, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality and compassionate services.
Module 1: The Course Structure CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

This first lesson of our online training course explains the role of the social care professional. I'll briefly describe the course. We'll define social care, discuss why people select it as a job, and discuss its goals and objectives.
Module 2: Understanding Social Care CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to Module 2 on social care, which provides social work, personal care protection, and social assistance to children, adults, and at-risk persons with disease, disability, old age, or poverty.
Module 3: Relationships CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Hi there, module three relationships. A fundamental skill of social workers is developing solid working relationships. Many social care recipients receive help from others. Therefore, everyone involved must discuss and agree on support care or help.
Module 4: Agreed Ways of Working CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to Module 4. Workflows agreed upon in module two. It's crucial to know your social care worker duties. Working within the company's policies is part of your job.
Module 5: Keeping up-to-date CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to Module 5. Updating your employer's or organization's accepted ways of working allows you to give a high-quality, legal, and safe service to service users. These guidelines protect service users and you and your company.
Module 6: Working in Partnership CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to Module 6. In senior social care, cooperation and person-centered ideals guide support and assistance. The service user is the focus.
Module 7: Resolving Conflicts CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to conflict resolution module seven. You may need to help a service user question and dispute life and care decisions
Principle of Personal Development CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

The principle of personal development revolves around continuous self-improvement and growth. It emphasizes the cultivation of a proactive mindset, fostering a commitment to learning and adapting to new challenges.
Module 1: The Course Structure CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module one of our online training course, principles of personal development in adult social care. I'll give you a brief summary.
Module 2: Setting Standards CC
Easy
9 mins
Waleed Khalid

Start module two setting standards. There are regulations, laws, and processes that employers and care providers must follow in the care sector. National minimal standards (N MS) and national occupational standards (N OS) are the primary sets.
Module 3: Codes of Practice and Legislation CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module three legislation and codes of practice. Start with codes of practice. Codes of practice or conduct outline employment duties and expectations.
Module 4: Reflecting on your Work Activities CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module 4. Reflecting on work activities helps you learn and grow. Reflecting on your past acts is a terrific method to acknowledge your accomplishments and failures and examine your actions from many perspectives to design future care strategies.
Module 5: Personal Attitudes and Beliefs CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module 5. Personal views. This session discusses how to avoid letting personal beliefs affect work quality. Daily life includes values.
Module 6: Formal and Informal Learning CC
Easy
5 mins
Waleed Khalid

Module six: Formal and informal learning. This module covers how learning activities in adult social care increase knowledge, skills, and understanding.
Module 7: Feedback CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module 7 feedback. Education and training require feedback. It highlights your strengths and places for improvement.
Module 8: Personal Development Plans CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Introduction to module 8 personal development plans. The personal development plan (PDP) or individual development plan (ID P) is a systematic action plan to assist you reach personal development goals.
Person-Centered Care CC
Easy
2 mins
Waleed Khalid

This training course is an in-depth exploring about how person-centered care puts people and their families at the center of any care and support intervention. Content includes assessment and support planning, through to provision of care in residential or home care settings.
Module 1: Course Overview CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

In this course, we are going to learn about person centered approaches for care and support, and how to implement a person-centered approach in an adult social care setting.
Module 2: Definitions and Values CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

What is meant by person-centered care approach? Well, it is started in the 1940’s, centered around the revolutionary ideas of American psychologist Dr. Carl Rogers who began moving away from assumptions that the expert knew best what was good for the client.
Module 3: Care Plans and Consent CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

A good way of implementing a person-centered approach for an individual service user is to find out about their preferences, desires and needs. The best way of doing this is by working in partnership with the service user and their family, friends, carers and medical experts such as doctors, therapists and social workers.
Module 4: Daily Reports CC
Easy
6 mins
Waleed Khalid

Daily reports play a significant role in person-centered care approach and relate directly to the information in your care plans. Basically, a daily report is a form in which you record routine events. It is in fact, a legal document, so the facts you record should be accurate and consistent, giving a true account of what happened.
Module 5: Example Care Plans CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

When filling out a care plan, each section has a space where you can write down relevant issues and being taken to address them. Apparently, care plans will vary with your organization and with the individual, but let’s make a start with the care plan for James Smith.
Module 6: Case Study CC
Easy
5 mins
Waleed Khalid

In this module we're going to walk you through the full story of a person centered approach, so you can see how it works in the real world to produce a successful outcome that meets the needs and goals of the service user, the carers, the associated medical staff, and the service user’s family.
The Principle of Communication CC
Easy
2 mins
Waleed Khalid

A "Principles of Communication" course is a comprehensive exploration of the fundamental concepts and practices that underpin effective communication.
Module 1: Reasons People Communicate CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module one. I'll begin with a course summary. We'll then discuss communication's relevance in social care before defining communication and explaining the communication cycle.
Module 2: Ways of Communicating CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to module two communication methods. Start with some of the most common ways you'll interact at work with service users, their families, coworkers, managers, supervisors, and other professionals.
Module 3: Identifying Communication Barriers CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

In module three, recognizing communication barriers, you'll encounter obstacles regardless of your communication approach. These hinder communication. These are the basic hurdles, however you may confront more than one in some instances.
Module 4: Reducing Communication Barriers CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Reduce communication hurdles in module four. As your communication skills improve, you will learn how to interact with fellow professionals, service users, and their families and friends to communicate successfully with individuals with varied requirements.
Module 5: Checking Understanding CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

In module five we will discuss about verifying, comprehending checking sure the service user understands your communication is crucial. You can learn several abilities to verify your communication. Here are some significant ones.
Module 6: Getting Help with Communication Issues CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Welcome to Module 6. Getting communication aid. Many services can improve your communication abilities. Charity websites offer advice on communication technology. Joining local clubs or finding events online might also assist.
Module 7: Confidentiality CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

Intro to Module 7 secrecy. Healthcare gives you access to a lot of information about your patients. You'll discover about their health, work, family, and maybe money.
Nutrition and Hydration CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

According to Age UK, 1 in 10 older people are undernourished. Of these, over 90% live in the community rather than in residential elderly care. Also, the NHS states that 35% of those admitted to care homes are also affected by malnutrition.
Module 1: The Course Structure CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

This module will start by defining the various terms used when learning about nutrition and hydration in care environments. It is important that everyone understands the terms and uses the correct ones if you are to work together as a team.
Module 2: Defining the Terms CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

In this module, defining the terms if you are part of a team responsible for people’s nutrition and hydration; it is significant that everyone understands the terms that are being used when providing routine services or when you are reading about the subject or attending training sessions.
Module 3: The Eat well Plate CC
Easy
9 mins
Waleed Khalid

In module 3, we are going to start with a phrase “The eat-well plate”. What is a healthy diet? No single food apart from breast milk contains all the essential nutrients. The body needs to be healthy and function in an effective way.
Module 4: Hydration CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

In this module, we will cover a subject of hydration. Water is essential for life and it is very significant to get the right amount of fluid to be healthy. It also has the added advantage of having no kilojoules.
Module 5: Through-life nutrition CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

This module covers through life nutrition. The nutrition we need at various stages of our lives starting with food for young children right through to nutrition for the elderly. We will start with food for young children.
Module 6: Malnutrition and Over nutrition CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

This module covers the subjects of malnutrition and over nutrition. Malnutrition is defined as a state of nutrition in which a lack of protein energy and nutrients causes measurable adverse effects on tissue and or body form, composition, function or clinical outcome.
Module 7: The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

This module covers the malnutrition universal screening tool also known as MUST. MUST is a five step screening tool to identify adults who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. It also contains an overview of how to develop a care plan and why we use a screening tool?
Mental Health Awareness CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

Mental Health is something which everyone should know about. An online mental health awareness training course that is designed to support employers, line managers and HR professionals in having confident conversations with colleagues who have and are showing early signs and symptoms of mental health problems.
Module 1: What is Mental Illness and Prevalence Rates? CC
Easy
7 mins
Waleed Khalid

In this module, we will discuss about what mental sickness is and what its prevalence rates are. Many People often associate the words mental health with mental illness and there are many definitions of what mental health actually is.
Module 2: Symptoms and Strategies to Help CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

In this module, we will discuss about symptoms of bipolar depression, psychotic disorders and schizophrenia and strategies to provide assistance. Most well-known mental illnesses such as bipolar, psychosis, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, dementia and obsessive compulsive disorder which is commonly known as OCD.
Module 3: Symptoms and Strategies to Help - Part 2 CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

There are a number of types of anxiety disorders that include social phobias a condition known as social anxiety disorder, through to a general feeling of excessive anxiety or worry that can last for months at a time known as generalized anxiety disorder.
Dementia Awareness CC
Easy
1 min
Waleed Khalid

This course has been particularly designed to raise the awareness and skills of care staff who work with people with dementia. This course seeks out to improve the welfare and experience of people with dementia.
Module 1: what is dementia? CC
Easy
5 mins
Waleed Khalid

Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a number a different diseases that affect the brain, particularly memory, behaviour, thinking and emotion. It is estimated to affect over 44 million people worldwide.
Module 2: The Brain CC
Easy
5 mins
Waleed Khalid

Let’s have a look at the various parts of the brain. The first part, frontal lobes which are controller damage; can lead to the individual no longer being aware of what actions could be seen by others as unsuitable. Next, the parietal lobes damage to these by dementia will cause the individual to have difficulty with language vision or knowing what's up things are fool. Finally, the temporal lobes damage to this area of the brain causes the individual to have problems with short term memory and eventually the long term memories may also fade away as the damage increases further into the deeper regions of the brain.
Module 3: Alzheimer’s disease & Parkinson’s [S1] Disease CC
Easy
4 mins
Waleed Khalid

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia. Other causes include vascular disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, fronto-temporal dementia and korsakoff syndrome.
Module 4: Strategies to use with clients with Dementia CC
Easy
6 mins
Waleed Khalid

Communication or interaction with a person who has dementia, an increasing challenge as a person gradually loses his/her memory, inability to organize and express his/her thoughts. In case of majority people, loss of memory means that past merge with the present resulting difficulty for family members.
Handling information in a care setting CC
Easy
3 mins
Waleed Khalid

If you desire to hunt a career in a care environment, you must learn to build the people’s trust in your care. One way to achieve this is to make certain that the correct handling of information.
Module 1: legislation CC
Easy
10 mins
Waleed Khalid

In module one, you will explore some key legislation regarding the handling and sharing of confidential personal information of care users.
Module 2: putting into practice CC
Easy
9 mins
Waleed Khalid

In module two, you will learn how to put what we have learned throughout the course into practice to ensure full competency in your care role.