The Care Certificate is designed for new workers joining health or adult social care who haven't had training or experience in the sector. Employers can also choose to offer it to other staff members. It includes 15 basic standards for new care workers and should be part of a thorough induction program. These are;
Understand your role
Your personal development
Duty of care
Equality and diversity
Work in a person-centered way
Communication
Privacy and dignity
Fluids and nutrition
Awareness of mental health, dementia, and learning disabilities
Safeguarding adults
Safeguarding children
Basic life support
Health and Safety
Handling information
Infection prevention and control
Standard 16 - Awareness of Learning Disabilities and Autism
We're in the process of making updates to our content to meet the 2025 Care Certificate changes and will roll out updates as soon as they're ready.
Our Care Certificate course currently doesn't cover Standard 16. Your organisation needs to decide how to cover this requirement.
What we offer
We offer eLearning courses on Autism Awareness and Learning Disabilities. You can also request access to the Oliver McGowan Tier 1 eLearning course, which we host on our platform. Check out this help guide to find out more about the Oliver McGowan course.
Theory
The theory part of the Care Certificate involves an eLearning course completed on our platform. This part covers the essential topic modules.
Practical
The practical part is the Care Certificate Workbook, which consists of the 15 standards mentioned above. These standards are the practical application of the topics covered in the eLearning course. Each standard in the workbook needs to be signed off by a manager to confirm competent completion. Only when the theory and practical components have both been completed will the individual attain the full qualification of the Care Certificate.
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If you have a report column set up for the Care Certificate workbook, you'll just need to add a training record to a user's account to show compliance on your report.
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For help adding training records to a user's account refer to this handy help guide.