Mandatory Training for Care Assistants – Skills for Care Aligned

Welcome to our online Mandatory Training for Care Assistants.

These online Mandatory Training for Care Assistants was developed to meet the required learning outcomes in the Skills for Care’s Care Certificate, Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Care Quality Commission (CQC) recommendations for health and social care providers.

Package content

Our Mandatory Training for Care Assistants e-learning package covers the following training modules:

• Understand your role
• Your personal development
• Duty of care
• Equality and diversity
• Work in a person-centred 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.

Who is the course for?

This Mandatory Training for Care Assistants e-learning package should be completed by all health and social care support workers working in CQC regulated environments, including:

• Care Home Nursing Staff
• Care Assistants
• Support Workers
• Adult Social Care Workers
• Residential Home Staff
• Nursing Home Care Staff
• Health and Social Care Support Workers
• Agency Care Workers
• Home Carers

This online Mandatory Training for Care Assistants e learning package was designed for new and experienced residential and nursing home care workers alike to meet the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory requirements for nursing & care homes in the UK.

Course aims

The Mandatory Training Group’s online Mandatory Training for Care Assistants eLearning package helps care home staff to meet the UK statutory requirements. The Mandatory Training Group is committed to keeping up to date with changes in relevant UK legislation, national directives and requirements on the mandatory training program to ensure that it reflects changing legal, risk and service requirements.

To that end, our Mandatory Training for Care Assistants modules are guided by the following:

• Standards set by Skills for Care, Health Education England and Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)
• The Care Quality Commission (CQC) guidance for health and social care support workers
• National guidance issued for locum care agencies and care recruitment agencies

Learning outcomes

The UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) sets out 11 statutory and mandatory training topics for all staff working in health and social care settings. The CSTF includes nationally agreed learning outcomes and training delivery standards across all healthcare and social care settings.

The Mandatory Training Group have worked with a range of subject matter experts to develop high quality, statutory and mandatory e-learning training sessions, which address all the knowledge outcomes at level 1 and 2 and at level 3, where appropriate for e-learning.

These statutory and mandatory training courses sessions are suitable for all health and social care staff working across the various Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated organisations, including NHS and private hospitals, mental health, care homes and domiciliary care providers.

It is the responsibility of individual health and social care employer organisations to ensure that their workforce complete the appropriate training to comply with their statutory and mandatory requirements. It is also an employer’s responsibility to determine the best mode of delivering the training, whether that is face-to-face, e-learning or a blended approach. The CSTF provides further guidance on this.

This online Mandatory Training for Care Assistants courses package meets the requirements of CQC regulated health and social care organisations.