Care Certificate

 

The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of specific job roles in the health and social care sectors.

 

Care and Support Workers

If you work in care (or would like to) but are not on a professional register related to care, i.e. NMC, CSP, COT, HSPCC etc., then you must complete the Care Certificate before being allowed to work unsupervised in the workplace. 

 

The Workbooks

The Care Certificate is made up of 15 minimum standards that should be covered and should form part of a robust induction to care programme. Each of the 15 standards are acoompanied by a workbook. You cannot complete the course without the workbooks, nor can you complete the course with the workbooks alone. The workbooks accompany the theory training, all of which can be accessed online via this page. However, you will also need an assessor to "sign off" each workbook.

 

Your Assessor

While your assessor does not require any formal qualifications to undertake this role, they must be able to prove their competence. If they have assessors certificates and experience in health and or social care that is good, but what is more important, is that they have a good understanding of what is required to work well in health and social care. There are funded courses that they can do to become an assessor specifically for the Care Certificate. You manager should be able to nominate someone in the workplace to act as your assessor, but if you have any difficulty, please get in touch and we will see what we can do to help.

 

The Course

The Care Certificate was developed jointly by Skills for Care, Health Education England and Skills for Health, to address issues that spring from poor quality care. As previously stated it is made up of 15 minimum standards. These are:

 

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

 

Accreditation

There is no such thing when it comes to the Care Certificate. The standards are a minimum that you must achieve. The materials, including the workbook are freely available from the Skills for Care, Skills for Health & Health Education England websites. The Care Certificate is a required set of standards in order to work in health and social care unsupervised. You are advised by the three authorities mentioned above to read this statement prior to buying this course. So...

 

...If you can do the course free, why do we charge £15?

You are paying for the video content and lectures, which you will not find anywhere else. You will also be getting our support. In saying that, we will be happy to return your fee if you register with us and do at least one full shift. Your fee will be reimbursed when your first timesheet is submitted and approved.

 

Watch the introductory video

Try before you buy.

 

Everyone should know CPR. So please watch the video to Standard 12 - Basic Life Support and download the free workbook. As with all of the Standards, you cannot complete the course using the workbook alone, you will need to be assessed by someone who knows what they are doing. Speak to your workplace manager. Keep the workbook as it will provide the evidence you need if you go on to do the full Care Certificate.

Watch the Standard 12 Video Session

You can download all 15 workbooks free of charge by following the green buttons below.

 

As you complete each one, take a photograph of the final page and upload it via the red button at the bottom of this page.

 

WORKBOOKS