Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers – Skills for Care Aligned

Welcome to our online Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers.

These online Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers 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.

Course content

Our Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers online 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.

These Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers are also suitable for staff induction, refresher training or the Care Certificate training programme.

Who is the course for?

This online Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers courses package should be completed by all health and social care support workers working in Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated environments, including:

• Residential Home Staff,
• Adult Social Care Workers,
• Domiciliary Care Workers,
• Home Care Workers,
• Care Assistants,
• Support Workers,
• Nursing Home Staff, and
• Families and Carers.

This online Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers courses package has been designed for new and experienced residential and nursing home care workers alike to meet the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory requirements care staff and care workers across the UK.

Course aims

This Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers courses package helps care home and domiciliary care staff to meet the UK statutory requirements. We are committed to keeping up to date with changes in relevant UK legislation, national directives and requirements on a mandatory training program to ensure that it reflects changing legal, risk and service needs.

To that end, our online Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Care Workers package modules are guided by the following:

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

*Each of these online mandatory training for residential home staff modules provides essential and adequate detail as suggested by UK regulators, including the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Learning outcomes

The Statutory/Mandatory and the Clinical/Care UK Core Skills Training Frameworks (CSTFs) set out 19 subjects for all staff working in community 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 Domiciliary Care Workers courses package meets the requirements of CQC regulated health and social care organisations.