Statutory and mandatory care training

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These are the courses/ topics that Skills For Care has deemed ‘statutory and mandatory’ for adult social care employers. These include

  • Health and safety awareness
  • Fire safety
  • Moving and handling objects
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Adult safeguarding
  • Assisting and moving people
  • Child safeguarding
  • Food hygiene
  • Medication administration
  • Basic life support

 

  • The face-to-face training can be delivered at your place of work, which can ease pressures of losing valuable staff for a long period of the day.
  • The face-to-face training can be delivered at various times during the day, to assist you in planning staff rotas and shifts to ensure all can attend.

The courses offered will help managers and care providers meet regulatory requirements and standards.

First aid training 

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The following first aid courses are statutory and mandatory to some organisations, depending on size, client base etc.

  • Basic life support
  • Emergency first aid at work
  • First aid at work

The first aid courses we deliver at your organisation have been designed and devised from guidance from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

 

 

 

Specialist care training

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Specialist care training includes topics that may require technical or clinical skills, as well as topics that require deeper understanding of the health conditions to help staff develop empathy attributes required to support individuals; training includes: 

  • Continence care
  • Pressure ulcer prevention
  • Oral healthcare
  • Dementia
  • End of life care
  • Mental health and mental capacity
  • Parkinson’s disease.

All of our courses are designed in line with standards set by leading organisations, including the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Skills For Care, National institute for Social Care Excellence (NICE), the department for Education and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).