Course: Care Certificate
Course Duration:
1 Day a week for 8 weeks
Prerequisites
This course is available to:
- Those wanting a career in the health and social care sector
- Volunteers wanting to progress in the health and social care sector
- Those who are currently unemployed and are seeking a career within health and social care
Course Content
This course contains:
- Understanding your role
- Personal development
- Your duty of care
- Equality and diversity
- How to work in a person-centred way
- Effective communication
- Privacy and dignity
- Fluids and nutrition
- Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding children
- Basic life support
- Health and safety
- Handling information
- Infection prevention and control
The above will set you up a portfolio of knowledge that can then be taken into the workplace in order to complete the care certificate.