Care Certificate
The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of specific job roles in the health and social care sectors.
Developed jointly by Skills for Care, Health Education England and Skills for Health, the Care Certificate is made up of the 15 minimum standards that should be covered if you are 'new to care' and should form part of a robust induction programme.
Each standard has a workbook that includes knowledge content and ends with a section where learners can record their understanding. Each standard also has a progress log, mapping and sign-off document that completed jointly by the employee and the manager/supervisor/assessor to confirm that all outcomes and criteria have been achieved in practice in the work setting.
To give you an idea what these documents are, here is a workbook and progress log, mapping and sign-off document for Standard 1: Understand Your Role.
You can find similar documents for all 15 standards on Skills For Care website in the Care Certificate workbook section.
In addition to the tools provided on the Skills For Care Website, we have developed a Care Certificate Standards-Matrix & Observation Record document to help you trace your progress of completing all 15 standards.
Care Certificate Induction Programme
This modular training programme provides underpinning knowledge for the Care Certificate. It is aimed at you, if you are a new front line Care Worker in Adult Social Care, have recently changed job role, joined a new team or simply want to renew/refresh your skills.
There are 9 courses that run several times throughout the year. Please see the Calendar for full details of the courses including the prices. If you have previously completed the Care Certificate and have moved into a different organistion you may wish to complete the Care Certificate Standards Self-Assessment Tool. and share with your manager / supervisor.
Courses on offer?
- Care Certificate Introduction and Professional Care Values (Standard 2, 3, 6, 7)
- Administration of Medication Level 2 (Standard 13)
- Moving and Handling People Level 2 (Standard 13) available via Mandatory Adult Social Care Training
- Hoist and Safe Use of Equipment (Standard 13) available via Mandatory Adult Social Care Training
- Infection Prevention and Control (Standard 13, 15) available via Mandatory Adult Social Care Training
- Emergency First Aid (Standard 12)
- Person Centred Practice (Standard 5)
- Fluids and Nutrition (Standard 8)
- Recognising and Responding to Abuse (Standard 10, 11)
- Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disabilities (Standard 9)
We recommend that the following standards are met by the completion of ME Learning modules:
- Standard 1 Understand your role for health and social care
- Standard 4 Equality and diversity for health and social care
- Standard 14 Handling information for health and social care
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Core Training (for staff)
A Me-learning licence can be purchased for just £30 per person (inc VAT) and will give access to over 200 courses through to March 2025. To request a licence email e-learning@bolton.gov.uk
You can attend any course in any month and need to BOOK on each course separately.
