Care Certificate Standards Course

About the course

The Care Certificate Standard is a Blended Learning Plan consisting of:

• 15 online modules (1 for each standard)
• A Learning Platform to track progress online & real competency based tasks
• Management features to confirm successful completion of tasks through the platform
• Learner features to upload completed workbooks for review
• Other practical resources as set by your organisation

Once learners complete the blended learning plan above and management have approved all uploaded evidence and workplace observations they will receive The Care Certificate. These online modules only make up the theory, you must prove competence in a practical workplace setting, under observation to achieve the Care Certificate.

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This is a practical assessment, why should I choose to do part of it online?

This online course will help you achieve all of your knowledge requirements towards The Care Certificate, you will also need to undertake workplace observations to complete the competence based sections to fully achieve The Care Certificate.

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Pick up where you left off, anytime anywhere

We know you're busy so we've made sure you can easily pick up from where you left off and take the course on any device (phone, laptop or tablet)

Course Overview

Each of the Standards are split into lessons that are a maximum of 5 mins long, making it easy to quickly make fantastic progress, even if you only have a small amount of time each day.

The standards

1. Understand your role
2. Your personal development
3. Duty of care
4. Equality and diversity
5. Work in a person centred way              
6. Communication
7. Privacy and dignity
8. Fluids and nutrition
9. Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
10. Safeguarding adults
11. Safeguarding children
12. Basic life support
13. Health and safety
14. Handling information
15. Infection prevention and control

The Care Certificate:

• applies across the health and social care sectors
• is portable between sectors and organisations
• is an assessment of both knowledge and competence.

Your learners will cover the same areas of learning as all the workers who undertake the Care Certificate. They will be assessed on what they know and what they do to show that they understand and can carry out the standards in their role.

The 15 online modules cover the knowledge content of the Care Certificate but the certificate cannot be completed based on completing the modules alone. In addition to the knowledge content, the Care Certificate includes almost 50 areas of workplace assessment.

As an employer you have a responsibility to provide an induction to ensure that your people have the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to do their job. The Care Certificate may be used as part of an induction as it sets out fundamental skills that they will need to be competent when working in health and social care.

Each standard must be completed and assessed before your people can work without direct supervision in any setting. This should happen at the beginning of their employment and can be done in a phased way. As they meet each individual standard, they could be allowed to do the areas of work covered by that standard without direct supervision, while still needing supervision in other areas.

After completing the Care Certificate

As an employer it is your responsibility to award the Care Certificate to your people once they’ve proven competency by satisfying all areas of assessment. This can all be managed through the platform, keeping everyone on track. Both you and your people will have access to their progress and achievements. 

The online training modules cover the knowledge and understanding for each standard in the Care Certificate. They contain questions and activities to prove understanding of how the information applies in the workplace

Workbooks for evidence are available in each of the Standards online modules. Once complete the learners will be instructed to upload them to their training profile which will trigger an alert on the management dashboard.           

This is a blended course (tasks are to be completed online and in the workplace) that can be managed and reviewed online for your convenience.

This course is right for you if…

You are ‘new staff, new to care’ employed as:

• a healthcare assistant, assistant practitioner, care support worker or you support clinical roles where there is direct contact with patients
• an adult social care worker, providing direct care in residential and nursing homes or a hospice, or you are a home care worker.

Other roles may be included where achievement of all of the standards is possible. As some of these roles would be very different in health and social care it is up to the employer to decide whether the Care Certificate is appropriate. However, to be awarded the Care Certificate you must meet all of the outcomes and assessment requirements.

Enrol now and you'll instantly receive:

• 15 sharply focused courses delivering a good, quality awareness of the subject.
• Unlimited access to the courses. Take the course wherever and whenever you like.
• Certificate emailed on completion.
• 15 online modules (1 for each standard)
• Workplace observations on competence (Managers can confirm successful completion through the platform)
• Portfolio of evidence to prove understanding (Learners will need to upload completed workbook)
• Other practical resources as set by your organisation

Start now for just £15 + VAT