The Care Certificate is an identified set of standards that health and social care workers adhere to in their daily working life. Designed with the non-regulated workforce in mind, the Care Certificate gives everyone the confidence that workers have the same introductory skills, knowledge and behaviours to provide compassionate, safe and high quality care and support.
The course is delivered in very interactive way learning/ teaching to ensure the outcome based assessments are done throughout a number of training exercises, role plays, written assessments, open discussions and the workbook that will be checked, marked by trainer and passed over to appropriate manager for evidence of learning.
The Care Certificate is based on 15 standards, all of which individuals need to complete in full before they can be awarded their certificate:
Understand your role
Your personal development
Duty of care
Equality and diversity
Work in a person centred way
Communication
Privacy and dignity
Fluids and nutrition
Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability
“I can’t praise Suzy and Daun enough for the training they provide for my Residential care home. They work closely with me to ensure that the training is specific to what we do here and that it didn’t disrupt the running of the home. The staff were interested and engaged with both trainers and have been able to put their training into practice”