Social Care
Food Hygiene
Designed exclusively for those providing care within the domiciliary setting, in food preparation. It covers the range of factors in preparing food for service users, helping you to develop an understanding of how to handle, store and prepare food properly and improves awareness of the importance of good personal hygiene, including when it is essential to wash hands.
Health and Safety
Designed exclusively for those providing care within the domiciliary setting and health and safety within the service users own home. Covering the home carer’s duty of care to service user. Includes awareness of common hazards about the home whilst considering the importance of referring to risk assessments and care plans. The importance of good housekeeping when storing or disposing of chemicals, dangerous substances or sharp objects. The need to consider personal safety when visiting service users homes and the importance of raising issues of concern with management and reporting injury and ill health. The course also links to our provision of moving & handling, food hygiene and fire safety training.
Fire Safety
Designed exclusively for those providing care within the domiciliary setting, covering fire safety within the service users own home. By focussing on fire prevention principles and home carer obligations, it introduces the three elements that come together to start a fire (known as the fire triangle) and considers common causes of fire within the domestic setting.
Moving and Handling
How to safely assist service users to move with equipment and develops carers’ understanding of their rights and responsibilities under health and safety law. Covering the dangers of manual handling of service users. The role of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations in enforcing safe practices.
Challenging Behaviour
How care staff can work with service users who may be aggressive or violent and how to manage challenging behaviour. Includes what is challenging behaviour?; who can present challenging behaviour?; reasons for challenging behaviour; prediction and prevention; undertaking proper risk assessments; how to respond appropriately; verbal responses; and body language.
Management of Medicines in residential care homes
Basic Awareness of Learning Disability
Mental Health and Learning Disability
Person Centred Planning Awareness
Fire Risk assessment
Health & Safety in the Workplace
Management Development Programme
Supporting People Quality Assessment Framework
Fire Safety