HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRAINING COURSES

Essential In-House Training Courses for the Health and Social Care Sector

Emerald Training specialise in high quality learning courses designed for the health and social care sector. We provide a wide range of health and social care training courses from specific topics like the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Health and Safety Infection Control to behavioural courses aimed at all health and social care workers from social workers to supervisors. You’ll find a number of different topics that cater for employees working within the adult social care services.

We tailor our services to meet the unique needs of each business. Each of our social care courses is designed with you and your teams in mind.  We offer a range of options from advice to bespoke training interventions. Joanne works with you to find the most effective solutions that will improve your employee performance and enhance your workplace development of employees. We’ve seen how motivating and developing employees makes a real and positive difference to the life care they deliver whilst enhancing their mental health at work.

Scroll down to see our selection of Health and Social Care training courses.

For Hospitality, Catering and Other Sector in-house Training, please go to the Hospitality Sector tab

Health and Social Care Training Portfolio

£495 1/2 Day Rate

Those new to reablement will benefit from this course as part of their induction process and also  for those who are already working as a Reablement Support worker.

Course Outline

  • Introduction to Reablement
  • Reablement and the Care Act 2014
  • The role and benefits of reablement
  • Communication and working together
  • Types of Support
  • Assessment and goals- SMART and SMARTER
  • Putting together a support plan
  • Preparing for the service to end

£895  Day Rate 

Course Duration – 1 Day

If you are seeing an increase in medication errors, last medication training was over two years ago or if you have new starts, this robust classroom training is what you need. Covering both theory and practical elements, followed by on-the-job competencies, you should be able to see an improvement in the way medication is managed.

Course Outline

  • Legislations attached to medication.
  • Legal medication categories
  • Types of medication
  • Strengths, forms, and routes of medication.
  • Systematic Administration of Medication- the 5- and 7-point checks
  • Covert medication
  • 20 Label Check Activity
  • Topicals
  • Measuring Fluids for administration
  • Inhalers/MDI
  • Instilling eye drops

£895 Day Rate 

In this Acquired Brain Injury course, you will learn a little bit about how the brain works, what happens when certain parts of the brain are damaged, how it can be damaged and importantly, how we can support our clients to overcome barriers, challenges and loss of skills.

Course Outline

  • The Brain and the Central Nervous   System (CNS) 
  • What  Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is and causes
  • Treating ABI
  • Rehabilitation
  • Effects of ABI
  • Practical Strategies to overcome the effects of ABI
  • Adjusting to life after Brain Injury
  • Organisations

£495 1/2 Day Rate

Standard 10 in the Care Certificate which is coupled with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) giving your employees a robust foundation of knowledge should CQC ask an MCA question when doing an inspection.

Course Outline

  • CC Standard 10 Safeguarding Adults
  • What to do if you suspect or witness abuse or abuse has been disclosed
  • Mental Capacity Act 2005 Outline
  • What Mental Capacity looks like
  • MCA Support e.g. Lasting Power of Attorney
  • Supporting someone who lacks Capacity
  • MCA 5 Principles
  • DOLS

£895 Day Rate 

This will be particularly useful for those who have to assess mental capacity when creating a care plan for new clients whether they are a new or established Supervisors. This comes with lots of discussion and reflection work.

Course Outline

  • Basic Mental Capacity Act Recap
  • In-depth look what and how to implement the principles day to day as a Supervisor
  • Mental Capacity Assessment Triggers
  • Assessing and Recording Mental Capacity
  • DOLS/LPA
  • Legal supports attached to the MCA e.g. Court of Protection, Lasting Power of Attorney

£495 1/2 Day Rate

A popular course for those working in care homes, working out in the community and extra care.

Packed with information and ideas for supporting those living with dementia.

Course Outline

  • Understand the term dementia
  • Identify types of dementia
  • Recognise Symptoms of dementia
  • Understand the importance of early diagnosis
  • Help someone living with dementia live a good life
  • Ideas how to support someone living with dementia
  • Help support the family of someone living with dementia

£495 1/2 Day Rate

This course explains what Epilepsy is and how you can support someone during a seizure. The training includes understanding no two people are the same and therefore a person centred approach to individual’s epilepsy is imperative.

Course Outline

  • What Epilepsy is
  • Reasons why people have epilepsy
  • Diagnosing Epilepsy
  • Types of seizures
  • Triggers
  • Seizure Control
  • First Aid during seizures (theory and practical)
  • Reducing risk of injury within the home
  • SUDEP and Status Epilepticus

£495 1/2 Day Rate 

Care Certificate Standard 8 is more than covered in this course.

We have put in some add-on’s to help carers and support workers to help provide valued support to those who are struggling to eat and drink.

Course Outline

  • Gastro intestinal System in very brief
  • Basic Food Groups and why we need them
  • Signs of malnutrition and dehydration
  • Eatwell Guide and Activity
  • Why people don’t eat
  • Supporting people to eat and drink
  • Religion and Food
  • Basic Food hygiene when preparing meals. 

£895 Day Rate 

It comes round all too quickly but Refreshers are an important communication tool to ensure that your employees are safe.

All the annual  statutory training is covered but if there are any specifics you require in addition, please let Joanne know 

Course Outline

  • Health and Safety
  • Moving and Handling*
  • Fire Safety
  • Medication (please stipulate if you need paper MAR chart version)
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Safeguarding and Mental Capacity Act
  • Add-on if required

*Please call Joanne re hoisting

£495 1/2 Day Rate 

Care Certificate Standard 6 which is covered in this course with the addition of practical exercises in writing good visit notes and maintaining confidentiality.

Course Outline

  • Why we communicate
  • Forms of communication
  • Body language
  • What Good Communication looks like
  • Barriers to communication and how to overcome them
  • Maintaining good working relationships 
  • Questioning
  • Confidentiality and laws relating to
  • Writing end of visit notes well
  • When not to write in visit notes

£895 Day Rate 

Perfect workshop for new and established supervisors to attend with lots of activity in the afternoon after the morning is spent laying the principles of being a supervisor

Course Outline

  • What a supervisor is 
  • What makes a great and not so great supervisor
  • Transition from carer to supervisor
  • Mistakes new Supervisors make
  • How to be a great supervisor in 5 steps
  • 10 Supervisory Skills in detail
  • Setting SMART targets
  • Risk Assessing
  • Taking a supervision
  • Assessing competencies

All our training comes with workbooks, knowledge checks (if applicable) and an itemised certificate.

We strongly advise you scan or photocopy all of these and place in the learners training file as evidence of learning. This is particularly useful for inspections, audits, and performance reviews.

If you opt to have two half day Health & Social Care Training courses wrapped into one day, you will be invoiced for one day so instead of paying 2 x £495 (=£990), you will pay just £895 day rate (saving £95)

Additional Health and Social Care Training Courses

£895 Day Rate 

Ideal for those who are working with people living with autism and/or learning disability who show behaviours that challenge in residential care homes, supported living, and for outreach workers.

Course Outline

  • A brief Introduction into what behaviour is
  • Why we do what we do
  • Basic proactive behaviour support and managing a crisis
  • Triggers
  • Why behaviour that challenges happens
  • Active and Proactive Support and Strategies
  • Recognising early warning signs- reactive strategies
  • After the event
  • Your Wellbeing

£895 Day Rate

Health and Safety (Standard 13) 

Course Outline

  • Hazards and Risks 
  • COSHH
  • Fire Awareness 
  • Moving and handling Objects  (theory and practical)
Infection Control (Standard 15)

Course Outline

  • What infection is
  • Chain of Infection
  • How infection spreads
  • Infection prevention
  • Handwashing
  • 3 Steps to cleaning
  • Spillages
  • Donning and Doffing PPE (Apron, gloves and masks)

£1790 

Course Duration – 2/3 Days

This Is ideal if you want employees to ‘Champion’ topics such as moving and Handling, Safeguarding, Dementia, Safe Administration of Medication etc. All the learners will be carefully guided through the principles of training, discover learning styles, lesson planning in detail. They will then be asked to deliver a micro teach which they will deliver with feedback from their peers and, of course, the trainer.

Course Outline

  • Trainer role and responsibilities
  • Ways to promote equality, value diversity and inclusion in the training room
  • Expected trainer and learner behaviours
  • Methods of learning and delivery
  • Delivering Learning
  • Understanding Aims and Objective
  • Assessing and Assessment methods
  • Record Keeping
  • Feedback
  • Delivery of Micro Teach

N.B. The above is a brief outline of this robust course

BESPOKE Health and Social Care Training Courses

As well as our suite of courses we can also deliver Bespoke training and Learning and Development to your business, centred around your specific business needs and challenges. So if you can’t find the course you want, give Emerald TPLDS a call and we’ll talk through your specific requirements to design the perfect course for your organisation.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE REMOTE LEARNING

Emerald Training and People Development offers flexible Services

For Fees and Prices, please contact Emerald to discuss requirements.

A cost effective way if you only have one or two learners. 2025 dates coming soon… To book please get in touch.

Courses suitable    

Acquired Brain Injury; Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act 2010

Mental Capacity Act for Supervisors;

Reablement; Dementia; Epilepsy; Nutrition and Hydration; Health and Safety & Infection Control; Hospitality and Cross Sector Health and Safety and Infection Control*

*Moving and Handling Theory only

For those with multiple sites, lacking training facilities or people spread out far and wide, this is a very good option for many of our courses. 

Courses suitable for remote training     

Acquired Brain Injury; Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act 2010

Mental Capacity Act for Supervisors;

Reablement; Dementia; Epilepsy; Nutrition and Hydration; Health and Safety & Infection Control; Hospitality and Cross Sector Health and Safety and Infection Control*

*Moving and Handling Theory  only

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Table top Presentation Pack aka 'Flipbook'

Please call to discuss your requirements

Ideal for a small team,  low staff turnover or annual training.

A flipbook is an A4 presentation book that you prop up, show the pictures to the learner & on the back is your script. 

The great thing is that you don’t necessarily have to do the whole book in one go, you can do the training in stages & use at anytime at your convenience.

Alongside the flipbooks, we will email a workbook template for the learner to fill in as they learn.

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