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The Care Certificate
Update
Michelle Vinall
Skills for Care Locality Manager for Norfolk and Suffolk
Tel: 07794622668 Email: [email protected]
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Background
Camilla Cavendish review of healthcare assistants and
social care support workers
Proposed a ‘Certificate of Fundamental Care’ now
as Care certificate
Standardised and portable training
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known
The Care Certificate
A key part of induction
A step towards meeting the standards required
by Care Quality Commission
To be introduced in April 2015
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Principles
Applicable across health and social care
Portable/transferable
Based on competences
Builds on existing induction standards
Mapped to existing qualifications
Trains people to be caring, and equips them
with the skills to be able to provide quality care
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Standards
Based on competences
All standards = Care Certificate
May be used as “standalone” competences for
other staff
Content builds on the existing and tested Common
Induction Standards (CIS) and National Minimum
Training Standards (NMTS)
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Standards
1. Understand your role
2. Your personal development
3. Duty of care
4. Equality and diversity
5. Work in a person centred way
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Standards continued…
6. Communication
7. Privacy and dignity
8. Fluids and nutrition
9. Awareness of mental health, dementia
and learning disability
10. Safeguarding adults
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Standards continued…
11. Safeguarding children
12. Basic life support
13. Health and safety
14. Handling information
15. Infection prevention and control
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Assessment must…
Be within a care setting
Be in practice
Involve people who use services, patients
Be completed, where possible, face to face by
an occupationally competent assessor
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Field testing the Standards
Formal pilot – 29 sites, 530 participants
Comments via specific inbox
SfC online survey
Employers, staff - ‘a good thing’, “will help to deliver
effective care”
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Quality assurance
Employer is responsible for assuring the quality
of the teaching and assessment of the Care
Certificate
CQC may require evidence at inspection
Recordable – ESR or NMDS
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Free Learning Resources
Guidance on standards & assessment
Downloadable PDF workbook
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Impact upon care
3 million care workers
Portable between sectors
Start of a learning journey
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Find out more (websites)
• Skills for Care
www.skillsforcare.org.uk
• Skills for Health
www.skillsforhealth.org.uk
• Health Education England
www.hee.nhs.uk
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