You need to make sure that you have basic healthcare training for your industry. Care courses are often a required part of a career in the field, which means you need to get the right kind of training in order to succeed.
Healthcare Courses
We have a broad selection of courses available for anyone who wants to seek out healthcare training. All of the online healthcare courses we offer are unique and designed to provide essential training or a vital qualification, but let’s take a look at some of what’s on offer. The list below is not exhaustive, you can view all care courses here.
Care Certificate – An interactive, engaging and endorsed by Skills for Care, Highfield’s Care Certificate is designed to help you achieve the knowledge requirements of all 15 standards. The course is written by leading experts from the field of health and social care. Designed to allow learners to work at their own pace, online, at a time and in a place to suit them, and achieve the knowledge element of the care certificate.
SafeGuarding Adults – Suitable for anyone who has a duty of care for or comes into contact with, adults in need of care and support, either as a paid professional or a volunteer.
Safeguarding Children – Aimed at anyone who has a duty of care for, or comes into contact with children in their chosen profession.
Communication in Health and Social Care – This Communication in Health and Social Care course aims to ensure that the learner understands why effective communication is important, what skills are required to facilitate it, and how to remove barriers.
Anaphylaxis and Autoinjectors – Understand the risks of a severe allergic reaction and how to administer adrenaline through an autoinjector. This short course is designed to be completed in under 30 minutes and has the potential to save a life.
Moving and Handling People – Aimed at People working in Health and Social care roles including health care and residential or nursing homes.
Duty of Care – 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.
Person-Centred Care – Will give you an understanding of person-centred approaches for care and support, and how to implement a person-centred approach in an adult social care setting.
End of Life Care – 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.
Understanding Your Role in Care – Will define social care and talk about why people choose it as a career and what its goals and objectives are.
Fire Marshal For Care Homes – Covers the same content as the Fire Marshal course with additional content tailored specifically for employees that work in care homes.
Basic Fire Safety Awareness for Care Homes – Covers the same content as the Basic Fire Awareness course with additional content tailored specifically for employees that work in care homes.
Handling Information in a Care Setting – Covers 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’.
Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care – This Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care course aims to ensure that the learner understands what is meant by equality and diversity, and how it should be implemented within the context of health and social care.
Fluids, Nutrition & Food Safety – This Fluids, Nutrition & Food Safety course is suitable for those working in health and social care requiring an understanding of why a balanced and healthy diet is important, and how to ensure that those for whom they care are provided with such a diet.
Hand Hygiene – A Video Guide to Effective Hand Washing – A guide to Effective Hand Washing course is suitable for all members of an organisation requiring a base level understanding of the hand hygiene.
Handling Information in Health and Social Care – This handling information course is suitable for those working in health and social care requiring an understanding of their role and responsibilities.
The above are just a few healthcare courses offered, however you can view all care courses here.