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CARE CERTIFICATE UPDATE #CareCert Follow the conversation using #CareCert Background • Camilla Cavendish review of healthcare assistants and social care support workers • Proposed a ‘Certificate of Fundamental Care’ now known as Care certificate Follow the conversation using #CareCert • Standardised and portable training 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 Follow the conversation using #CareCert 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 Follow the conversation using #CareCert the skills to be able to provide quality care 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 Follow the conversation using #CareCert Minimum Training Standards (NMTS) 15 Standards (1-5) 1. Understand Your Role 2. Your personal development 3. Duty of Care 4. Equality and diversity 5. Work in a person centred way Follow the conversation using #CareCert 15 Standards (6-10) 6. Communication 7. Privacy and Dignity 8. Fluids and Nutrition 9. Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities 10. Safeguarding Adults Follow the conversation using #CareCert 15 Standards (11-15) 11. Safeguarding Children 12. Basic Life Support 13. Health and Safety 14. Handling Information 15. Infection Prevention and Control Follow the conversation using #CareCert 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 Follow the conversation using #CareCert occupationally competent assessor Field Testing the Standards • Formal pilot – 29 sites, 530 participants • Comments via specific inbox • SfC online survey Follow the conversation using #CareCert • Employers, staff - ‘a good thing’, “will help to deliver effective care” 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 Follow the conversation using #CareCert Free resources • Guidance on standards & assessment Downloadable PDF workbook • FAQs • Certificate Template Follow the conversation using #CareCert Impact upon care • 3 million care workers • Portable between sectors • Start of a learning journey Follow the conversation using #CareCert Find out more (websites) • Skills for Care www.skillsforcare.org.uk • Skills for Health www.skillsforhealth.org.uk • Health Education England Follow the conversation using #CareCert www.hee.nhs.uk