Mandatory Yearly Refresher Skills for Care Training
Skills for Care is the leading organisation in England responsible for ensuring the adult social care workforce consists of appropriately trained professionals with the skills and knowledge enabling the best possible care and support for individuals with social care needs.
HNL Care Services Training offers required and recommended Skills for Care Training, to support the workforce within the caring sector, aimed at understanding compliance requirements at every level. Our compliance Skills for Care training workshops focus on ensuring that all members of staff have an understanding of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
Our Yearly Refresher Training Courses is designed to give the learner an updated comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the following courses:-
The Safeguarding Adults training course is designed to provide learners with a better understanding of safeguarding measures their safeguarding responsibilities and how to protect vulnerable adults.
It explores
- Safeguarding responsibilities and ways to safeguard vulnerable adults
- Fundamental ways to recognise and respond to abuse, best practices to make safeguarding referrals.
- Working with other agencies to provide all adults with the right safeguarding support
- An adult's basic human rights to consent and decision making
- Prepare learners on how to respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns.
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive.
Approximate duration: I day
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is designed, for anyone whose job role involves working with vulnerable adults.
It's suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders, supervisors, new employees, and existing staff as a refresher
No pre-requisite training or knowledge is required.in particular
The Dementia Awareness and Refresher Training Course are aimed to increase the confidence and capability of the learner when delivering care for people with dementia and their family.
The course covers all aspects of dementia, including the symptoms to look out for, information on how dementia is diagnosed, and tips for adaptations for the individual that suffers from dementia, It is designed to look at person-centered approaches to working with people with dementia as well as identifying key communication and support approaches to improve the care received by people with dementia.
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive
Approximate duration: 1 Day
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is designed, for anyone who are/is looking after a person with dementia or who wishes to learn more about the condition. The course is suitable for learners of all levels.
It's suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders working in care home settings, domiciliary care, or simply relatives who are looking after a family member with the condition at home supervisors, new employees, and existing staff as a refresher
No pre-requisite training or knowledge is required.in particular
This Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care training course is aimed to help learners understand and recognise their responsibilities to promote workplace equality and diversity, relating this to tolerance and shows how these apply to health and social care environments.
The Equality Act 2010 covers this Equality and Diversity Training course and introduces protected characteristics, discrimination, and unequal treatment in a professional setting.
This course provides learners with an understanding of how the values, opinions, and prejudices of an individual can influence those around them, and how this can lead to discrimination.
Learners will gain awareness of the value of equality, diversity, and inclusion and will be encouraged to promote equal opportunities in the workplace
It's suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders, supervisors, new employees, and existing staff as a refresher.
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive.
Approximate duration: 1 Day
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is designed, for anyone in any sector, it’s suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders, supervisors, new employees, and existing staff as a refresher
No pre-requisite training or knowledge is required.in particular
Infection control and prevention are designed for workplaces where the worker could be at risk of contracting some infection or infect others. This involves working in a healthcare environment, in close contact with individuals, as well as cleaning up human waste.The training would provide the learner with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce the spread of infection and illness in non-healthcare workplaces.
Explains the fundamentals of infection prevention, the importance of personal hygiene, and how to correctly and safely use different types of PPE.
The sources of bacteria and how infectious bacteria move through hosts are discussed in this infection control course.
How to follow practical steps that help prevent the spread of COVID-19
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive.
Approximate duration: 1 Day
Who Should Take This Course?
This Infection Control training course is designed for those who work in places where there is a potential risk of infection.
This includes: Agency nurses, Healthcare assistants, Refuse workers, Cleaners, Community services, etc.
No pre-requisite training or knowledge is required.in particular
This Moving and Handling Training Course is aimed at new starters and existing staff within the health and social care setting, where the assistance and movement of people is a prerequisite part of their role.
This Moving and Handling People course will provide the learner with an introduction to safe manual handling practices so that they know how to carry out an individual risk assessment. It is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive underpinning knowledge to assist and move individuals.
The course fundamental keys would include the following: -
- Understand manual handling legislation as it applies to Healthcare
- Move handle and position people in a way that requires the least amount of effort
- Move and handle people in a way that provides greater comfort and dignity to the patient or resident
- Understanding of spinal mechanics
- Conduct a personal risk assessment for patients / residents
- Safely move people with and without the use of specialist moving and handling equipment.
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive.
Approximate duration: 1 Day
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is designed, for anyone who works in a health and social care setting
The course is suitable for learners of all levels.
It's suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders working in care home settings, domiciliary care, new employees, and existing staff as a refresher
No pre-requisite training or knowledge is required.in particular
Medication Administration training is designed as a reminder course for healthcare professionals who have key responsibilities of receiving, storing, administering, and disposing of medication.
Why do you need this course?
Medication is important to alleviate any symptoms and improve the health and wellbeing of a person’s life, so the ability to administer it has to be followed appropriately or it can be dangerous to health.
Healthcare professionals are accountable not only for the safe administration of drugs, but also for ensuring consistency, promoting independence, and respecting user/patient service decisions.
The course fundamental keys would include the following: -
Understanding legislation
Rights of medication administration
Classification of medication
Routes medication get into the body
Records keeping and maintenance
Mar Charts (Medication Administration record)
Understanding types and reasons for errors
Self-administration of medication etc.
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive.
Approximate duration: 1 Day
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is designed, for anyone who works in a health and social care setting
The course is suitable for learners of all levels.
It's suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders working in care home settings, domiciliary care, new employees and existing staff as a refresher
No pre-requisite training or knowledge is required.in particular
End-of-life care is significant as it is a type of care that is holistic, empathetic, cost-efficient, and effective. At the end of a person’s life, there are usually a variety of people involved in the treatment of people and support, which is not easy to be part of.
End-of-Life Training would support the learner to develop their understanding and knowledge of how to sensitively and appropriately care for individuals in the final stages of life.
The course fundamental keys would include the following: -
Advanced Care Planning
Factors affecting end-of-life care.
End of Life Care
Emotions, Feelings,
Forms of Dying, The Process of Dying,
Support and Aftercare.
Delivery is through a mixture of methods and involves learners in group exercises and discussions. Training is practical and interactive.
Approximate duration: 1 Day
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is designed, for anyone who works in a health and social care setting or an individual who requires the skills and knowledge to support an individual at their end of life, as well as their families and significant others.
The course is suitable for learners of all levels.
It's suitable for workers of all levels, including team leaders working in care home settings, domiciliary care, new employees, and existing staff as a refresher