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Home Care Care Certificate
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Designed exclusively for those providing care within the Home Care setting, this course will introduce you to the types of tasks you might be expected to carry out and the range of individuals they may come into contact with. This course also considers the importance of working within professional boundaries and why it is necessary to understand and follow policies and procedures. In addition, It goes on to look at the rights individuals have to take risks in their lives and how the risk assessment can assist to protect them from harm. It also considers the meaning of equal opportunities and diversity. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it.
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Designed exclusively for those providing care within the Home Care setting, this course aims to improve your awareness of common hazards about the home whilst considering the importance of referring to risk assessments and care plans. The course goes on to briefly introduce the need to consider personal safety when visiting the homes of people you support and the importance of raising issues of concern with management and reporting injury and ill health. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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Designed exclusively for those providing care within the Home Care setting, this course explores fire safety within the homes of the individuals receiving support. In focusing on fire prevention principles and home carer obligations, it introduces the four elements that come together to start a fire and considers common causes of fire within the domestic setting. This course helps to improve awareness of the importance of good housekeeping as part of an effective approach towards fire prevention and develops an understanding of how to respond in the event of an emergency.
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This course explores the vital role you have in making sure that the food you prepare is safe to eat. It covers the range of factors that you must appreciate when preparing food for individuals, and aims to consider the causes and effects of food poisoning. The course will help you to develop an understanding of how to handle, store and prepare food properly and improve your awareness of the importance of good personal hygiene, including when it is essential to wash hands. In addition, the need for working within a clean kitchen environment is also explored. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it.
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This medication training for home care workers covers the key elements that staff should be aware of when dealing with medication in a domiciliary care setting. By the end of this course, learners should... Have a basic awareness of how medicines are managed within domiciliary care settings (individual's own homes). Understand what products class as medications. Understand what you can and cannot do with medicines in your current role. Demonstrate how you can support your colleagues who administer medicines. Demonstrate how you can support individuals to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
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This course will provide you with fully up to date guidance on how to safeguard the welfare of adults at risk of abuse. Filmed entirely in real domiciliary care settings, this course will explain what abuse is and how to recognise the signs and symptoms. This course will help bring the realities of adult abuse to life by depicting dramatic scenes of abuse and teach you why abuse should never be ignored. This course provides information on the 10 types of abuse recognised by the Care Act and the 6 Principles of Safeguarding. This courses is designed to be fully in line with the Care Certificate Standard 10: Adult Safeguarding. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a key element identified by Skills for Care and is vital to the well-being of people that need support and their care workers. This domiciliary care based training resource will provide you with substantial support in making sure you understand and comply with legal obligations, as well as significantly improving your skills and knowledge in this area. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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Many care workers involved with domiciliary care are exposed to the increased risks of working alone. This course will provide essential guidance for when you may have to work by yourself. This support will increase your awareness of the risks involved with Lone Working and demonstrate how to minimise those risks and increase your safety. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it.
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An understanding of Health and Safety Risk Assessment will provide the basis of safe working. This course will help you to understand how to carry out risk assessments, what a risk assessment is and how it is vital for you to contribute towards keeping risk assessments up to date. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it.
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This course will demonstrate the value of worker development to managers and staff within either care home or home care settings. It will encourage you to evaluate your work and improve on it, to build continuing professional development. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it.
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As a care worker, your priority is promoting the safety and well-being of the individuals you support. This training video is designed to give you the confidence that sharing a concern is the right thing to do. It will show you how to raise a concern and what to do in the event the concern is not dealt with appropriately.
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The aim of this course is to consider how you can work with individuals who may be aggressive or violent and how to manage distressed behaviour. It will examine the following areas: What is distressed behaviour? Who can present distressed behaviour? Reasons for distressed behaviour, prediction and prevention, undertaking proper risk assessments, how to respond appropriately, verbal responses and body language. The course also advises you on the best ways of keeping themselves and other individuals safe in unsafe situations and why it is important to try to understand that there may be unknown reasons for distressed behaviour.
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Designed to be fully in line with the Care Certificate Standard 4: Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights, this course will provide you with essential information about equality, diversity and inclusion in a social care environment. Adapting a down-to-earth and common-sense approach, this course uses examples and illustrations to help you understand this important topic in an easier and more informative way. Watch through our interactive, video-based course. You will need to complete interactivities within chapters to move forward. Once you have completed the course, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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As a care worker, you must be able to communicate effectively. This course focuses on verbal, non-verbal and behavioural communication. It looks at how we communicate, what tools and resources we have within ourselves and equipment that can aid us, as well as confidentiality and GDPR.
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Privacy and Dignity has been included in the Care Certificate Standards: Standard 7, but how can we apply privacy and dignity in our every day work and life? How do we demonstrate it? Designed to be fully in line with CQC requirements and advocating good practices, this course will help you to gain a better understanding of the topic and how you can apply it in the social care environment. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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Good nutrition and hydration are an essential part of maintaining a person’s well-being. This course covers Standard 8 of the Care Certificate and will highlight how food should be both nutritious and enjoyable, the importance of hydration and the dangers of malnutrition and dehydration. You will also learn how to prevent the spread of infection when preparing and handling food. This course will also show you how to assist people with special requirements, so that everyone can enjoy a healthy, nutritious, safe meal. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Identify the components of a balanced diet. Recognise signs of poor nutrition and dehydration. Understand the significance of promoting food enjoyment. Recognise the benefits of care plans for individual care. Complete our interactive, video-based courses. You will need to answer the questions and complete interactivities within chapters correctly to move forward. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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This course focuses on the physical condition of dementia and how it affects the person. It explores the myths and stereotypes and will enable you to consider how these can influence the quality of care given. Used with Dementia Care 2: Person Centred Dementia Care, these will cover all dementia requirements of the Care Certificate.
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The Mental Capacity Act 2005 affects everybody who works in care. This course will provide you with the understanding of what the Mental Capacity Act is and more importantly, how it can be applied to your everyday working practices. Watch through our interactive, video-based course. You will need to complete interactivities within chapters to move forward. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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This course provides basic awareness of issues surrounding Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disabilities, following the requirements of the Care Certificate Standard 9. If you work with anyone with any of these conditions you will need additional training such as the Dementia Courses and Learning Disability Courses on this training portal. By the end of this course your staff will be able to: Provide better support for people with mental illness, dementia or learning disabilities in social care. Identify the key legislation relevant to these conditions. Understand how the Mental Capacity Act should be applied when providing care for people with these conditions. You can stop the course at any time and continue later where you left off. Once you have completed the course, you will be able to take the assessment quiz. You have 3 attempts to achieve a passing grade of 80% or higher. When you pass the quiz, please complete our feedback form to complete the course. If you fail all 3 attempts, you will be locked out of the quiz and unable to complete the course. Contact your manager to discuss resetting your progress.
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When you come into contact with children in the care setting, often as relatives of staff or people receiving support, you have a legal responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare. This training course will show you what actions should be taken if you are concerned about the safety of a child. It will also distinguish between the different types of abuse a child could be exposed to and how to recognise the signs and symptoms of each. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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Every workplace must make provisions for emergency first aid. This course covers all the First Aid requirements of the Care Certificate, including what to do if you come across an emergency situation, how to treat various types of casualties and how to record any incidents that have taken place. This course explains the procedure for common first aid situations, focusing on training for care home and home care staff. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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This course will provide a solid theoretical background to the subject of Moving & Assisting, in Social Care situations, to ensure that you understand the reasons, both practical and legal, behind safe moving principles. Used along with Moving and Assisting: Practical, and Moving and Assisting: Assessments the 3 course series meets Moving and Assisting requirements for Care Certificate Standard 13, RQF Levels 2 & 3, AWIFHSC (Wales) and Scottish National Care Standards.
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Filmed in both the Care Home and Domiciliary Care settings, this course will show you how to use Moving and Assisting equipment safely and assist people that need support in their daily lives. Built around the principles of safe manual handling, this course will teach you the importance of providing assistance centred around the needs of the individual whether working unaided, as part of a team or with equipment. This course meets practical Moving and Assisting requirements for Care Certificate Standard 13, RQF Levels 2 & 3, AWIFHSC (Wales) and Scottish National Care Standards. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it. Once you have completed all available chapters, you will be able to take the assessment quiz.
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This course considers the different forms of written communication and how you can improve your skills in this area. It also explains the role and responsibilities of managers and yourself as a care worker, in undertaking written communication. Watch through each video chapter. You will need to answer the questions within a chapter correctly, then submit your answers at the end of the chapter to complete it.