Health & Social Care Online Courses
You would think that one-on-one training would cost a fortune and be time-consuming to organise. Well, it isn’t! Our one-on-one tutor led interactive online training goes at precisely the pace required by each individual. It provides an opportunity to go over the learning content as often as required so every employee gets the optimum learning experience that’ll be retained and applied to keep your business safe and compliant.
At a fraction of the cost and fraction of management time than you’d expect, this health & social care online training has the added bonus of a minimal loss of productivity because it’s really efficient and flexible.
Please note that listed course prices do not include VAT.
- Emergency First Aid at Work – Online Annual Refresher
- Epilepsy Awareness
- Equality, Diversity and Discrimination
- Fire Marshal for Care Homes
- Handling Information in a Care Setting
- Health and Safety in a Care Setting
- Infection Control
- Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines
- Learning Disability Awareness
- Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Autism Awareness
This course will provide you with an understanding of what autism is and how it affects a child’s daily life. It will touch on some of the typical behaviors associated with it and how to can provide effective support for those with the condition. It also discusses what happens during the diagnosis process, some of the intervention methods that can help manage the condition and suggests some simple adaptations you can make to improve a child with autism’s day to day life.
Approved by CPD – Duration 30 mins* – £25.00
Basic Fire Safety Awareness for Care Homes
This course explains, in brief, why fires occur and what actions you must take to help prevent them starting and the actions you must take when they do. By completing this course you will be making your workplace a safer environment. This course is a variation on the Basic Fire Awareness course that contains information that is specific to employees of care and residential homes.
Approved by IOSH, IIRSM, Gatehouse Awards & CPD – Duration 60 mins* – £25.00
Children and Young People’s Mental Health
This course will cover a range of important topics related to mental health conditions that children and young people can experience including the signs of many mental health conditions including ADHD, Depression, Eating Disorders and self harm. You’ll learn about symptoms and causes and the actions you can take if you suspect someone may need help.The course also discusses mental health professionals and their roles, along with parents and how they can get involved. Finally you’ll learn about practical techniques you can use to help young people or children.
Approved by CPD & IIRSM – Duration 90 mins* – £35.00
Dementia Awareness
This course is intended to give you an overview of the common types and symptoms of dementia as well as going into how it can affect the brain in different ways. It also covers strategies to use with clients with dementia and dealing with challenging behaviour. The course is intended for anyone who works with or around people that may be living with dementia.
Approved by CPD – Duration 25 mins* – £25.00
Depression Awareness
Over 350 million people in the world are affected by depression. This online course will raise awareness of depression and how it can be recognised, diagnosed, classified and treated. It starts by looking at diagnoses before moving on to define the various types of depression, you’ll also learn about other disorders. It looks at the causes, everyday factors that can affect it and how it can affect adults, teenagers and children and how you can get help. There’s information on techniques you can use to help and also the roles played by exercise, diet and lifestyle.
Approved by CPD & IIRSM – Duration 45 mins* – £35.00
Diabetes Awareness
Diabetes is a serious lifelong health condition that occurs when the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the blood is too high. If left untreated, high blood glucose levels can cause serious health complications. This course is aimed at people working in the health and social care sector and will provide an overview of the condition, the common symptoms that might indicate someone has diabetes, methods of diagnosis, some possible treatments and common complications that can affect those with the condition.
Approved by CPD – Duration 45 mins* – £25.00
Dignity and Privacy
The course will start by defining dignity and privacy within the healthcare sector, and will explain how the two are quite often linked. It will then go on to give you a range of useful professional tips about setting up the right working relationship with your service users, and discuss some of the issues that can arise when dignity and privacy are not respected.
Approved by CPD – Duration 50 mins* – £25.00
Drug and Alcohol Awareness
This course is intended to provide you with the information you needed to understand and spot the signs of drug and alcohol misuse. It covers the legal and social implications for the individual and for your company if you find out an employee is misusing drugs. This course discusses the law, different types of drugs, and policies that can be put in place to protect yourself, your business and your employees.
Approved by CPD, IIRSM & Institute of Hospitality – Duration 80 mins* – £35.00
Duty of Care
A duty of care is the requirement that all health and social care professionals, and organisations providing health and care services, must put the interests of service users first. This course will give you an introduction to the concept of duty of care, cover how duty of care affects your work, what to do if you come across a duty of care dilemma and where to go for support or advice along with some practical examples of duty of care situations.
Approved by CPD – Duration 50 mins* – £25.00
Emergency First Aid at Work For Irish Audiences
This Emergency aid course will highlight some of the most common situations that you might come across and the actions that you can take to help.
Approved by IIRSM – Duration 150 mins* – £35.00
Emergency First Aid at Work – Online Annual Refresher
This Emergency aid course will highlight some of the most common situations that you might come across and the actions that you can take to help.In the most serious situations a first aider’s role will be to assess the scene so that accurate information can be passed to Emergency services and then to act appropriately to try and increase the patients odds of survival.
Approved by IIRSM, Institute of Hospitality & CPD – Duration 150 mins* – £35.00
End of Life Care
End of life care should be several things, compassionate, cost effective, holistic and effective. There are usually a number of people involved in the care of people at the end of their life and it can be a difficult process to be part of. This course will provide you with information about what to expect, how to handle some of the emotions associated with this time, and working with the other professionals involved in end of life care.
Approved by CPD – Duration 25 mins* – £25.00
Epilepsy Awareness
This course will give you an overview of epilepsy. It lists the methods of diagnosis, what a seizure is and how the brain can be affected. It will introduce some possible seizure triggers and describe what to do when someone has a seizure. It will also discuss some of the treatments offered to people with epilepsy and provide practical advice on what you can do if you witness someone having a seizure.
Approved by CPD – Duration 30 mins* – £25.00
Equality, Diversity and Discrimination
In this course we’re going to be discussing two topics, ‘equality’ and diversity’ and how they relate to one another. Understanding this will help us to identify and address issues of unfairness and discrimination in the workplace.
Approved by CPD – Duration 70 mins* – £35.00
Fire Marshal for Care Homes
The main outcome of this training course is to provide you with the knowledge to carry out the functions of a fire marshal. Please note, this course also contains all of the content in the Basic Fire Awareness and Fire Extinguisher courses. This course is a variation on the Fire Marshal course that contains information that is specific to employees of care and residential homes.
Approved by CPD, Gatehouse Awards & IIRSM – Duration 220 mins* – £35.00
Handling Information in a Care Setting
This course provides an introduction to the concept of handling information in care settings. At the end of the course you will understand the need for secure handling of information and you will know how to access support if you have any questions regarding access to information. The course will cover the important role confidentiality plays in developing trusting relationships with the people in your care and it will define key terms such as ‘need to know’ and ‘consent’.
Approved by CPD – Duration 20 mins* – £25.00
Health and Safety in a Care Setting
Care Homes are different to other workplaces as they are homes as well as places of work. They should be places where the residents are respected, and where everyone’s health and safety is managed effectively. To achieve this, everyone involved must understand their responsibilities. This course discusses the legislation that applies to care homes along with developing safe systems of work. It also covers what to do in some common situations you might encounter as well as some emergency situations. It concludes by discussing some aspects of the work environment and staff welfare.
Approved by CPD & IIRSM – Duration 80 mins* – £25.00
Infection Control
This course will start by defining infection prevention and control and explaining the impact of good and bad infection control. It then goes into detail about the legislation that applies to infection control, the different types of microorganisms, how bacteria are transmitted, the chain of infection, and much more.
Approved by CPD & IIRSM – Duration 60 mins* – £25.00
Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines
This Introduction to the Safe Handling of Medicines course will start by explaining the key terminology used when handling medicines. It then goes into detail about the roles of the people involved, some of the different groups of medicines, providing different levels of support to patients, infection control, label interpretation and much more.
Approved by CPD – Duration 60 mins* – £25.00
Learning Disability Awareness
This course will start by giving you an overview of some of the common types and causes of learning disabilities and how they affect people. It will touch on how a person centred approach to care will get the best results and look at how management must perform, and at the needs of the individual. I will also discuss overcoming the stigma attached to learning disabilities and much more.
Approved by CPD – Duration 50 mins* – £25.00
Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing
This course explains the key elements, procedures and activities involved in successful Occupational Health and Safety Management in the workplace. The course show how professional Occupational Health and Safety Management benefits individuals and organisations.
Approved by CPD – Duration 90 mins* – £35.00
Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (MCA and DOLS)
This course describes in detail the many facets and procedures of the Mental Capacity Act. This includes who the act affects, when it applies, how to assess capacity and the procedures that can be put in place in the home or workplace to ensure best practices are followed and people are treated fairly at all times.
Approved by CPD – Duration 75 mins* – £25.00
Mental Health Awareness
This course explains the difference between mental health and mental illness. It covers the symptoms of a number of the most common mental illnesses so you will know what to look out for or what to expect if you are working with someone with one of these conditions. As well as providing some practical advice on how you can work effectively with those affected by these conditions.
Approved by CPD – Duration 25 mins* – £25.00
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid teaches participants how to notice and support individuals who may be experiencing mental health issues or exhibiting the signs of substance use in a work environment. They are also taught how to connect those people with appropriate help from fellow employees, community resources or healthcare professionals.
Approved by IIRSM & Gatehouse Awards – Duration 90 mins* – £35.00
Moving and Handling People
The course outlines the dangers and legislation that applies to moving and handling people as well as showing a range of techniques and equipment that can be used. The course also highlights the importance of proper risk assessments and care plans
Approved by CPD – Duration 150 mins* – £25.00
Nutrition and Hydration
This course will start by defining the various terms used when talking about nutrition and hydration in care environments, the basic elements of nutrition and eating a healthy balanced diet, identify the reasons why vulnerable people might suffer with dehydration and the tools you can use to identify people that are at risk of malnutrition and the steps you can take to deal with this condition.
Approved by CPD – Duration 65 mins* – £25.00
Prevent Duty
This course starts with an overview of the Government’s Prevent strategy, and then looks at some of the reasons people become extremists. It goes on to cover the objectives of the Prevent strategy, how to base your actions on a risk based approach, what to do if you are concerned and much more.
Approved by CPD & IIRSM – Duration 65 mins* – £35.00
Principles of Communication
This course covers some of the different ways of communication, how to identify barriers to communication and how to reduce these, making sure the person you are communicating with understands what you are communicating, how to get help with communication issues and much more.
Approved by CPD – Duration 75 mins* – £25.00
Stroke Awareness
Strokes are the fourth single leading cause of death in the UK, as well as a leading cause of disability. Being aware of the causes and symptoms will help you act fast in a situation where you suspect someone is having a stroke and provide them with the best chance of receiving the treatment they need and minimising the long term impact of the condition. This course will cover the types of strokes, the symptoms, and risk factors. It will also cover the treatment options and the longer term impact of the condition.
Approved by CPD – Duration 55 mins* – £25.00
Supervising Mental Health at Work
This course will look at supervising stress and mental health at work and show you how to create a good mental health culture in your workplace. It starts by examining the negative effects of poor mental health and considers the benefits of intervention by employers. You’ll learn about the six main areas that can lead to work- related stress and discover how to recognise when individuals are at risk of stress. Finally you will learn how to promote a good mental health culture within your workplace.
Approved by CPD & IIRSM – Duration 25 mins* – £35.00
The Care Certificate
The Care Certificate is a nationally agreed set of standards that detail the learning outcomes and requirements that health and social care support workers are expected to be trained in before they can work unsupervised.
Approved by CPD – Duration 990 mins* – £35.00
Understanding your Role in Care
This course will define social care and talk about why people choose it as a career and what its goals and objectives are. It will also cover job descriptions, person centred care, understanding code of practices and the basics of government legislation. Finally it will touch on dealing with conflicts at work.
Approved by CPD – Duration 40 mins* – £25.00
Your Personal Development
The course will start by looking at the way standards are set, monitored and regulated for social care organisations and workers throughout the UK. It then goes on to cover the codes of practice and legislation, reflecting on your work to ensure continued improvement, communication, feedback and much more.
Approved by CPD – Duration 35 mins* – £25.00
*The course duration is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off. It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions.
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