Follow the conversation using #CareCert CARECERTIFICATE UPDATE #CareCert.

Follow the conversation using #CareCert

CARE CERTIFICATEUPDATE

#CareCert


Background

• Camilla Cavendish review of healthcare assistants

and social care support workers

• Proposed a ‘Certificate of Fundamental Care’ now

known as Care certificate

• 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


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


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)

Care Cert Standards


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


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


15 Standards (11-15)

11. Safeguarding Children12. Basic Life Support13. Health and Safety14. Handling Information15. Infection Prevention and Control


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

Assessor Doc


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”


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


Free resources

• Guidance on standards &

assessment

Downloadable PDF workbook

• FAQs

• Certificate Template

Guidance doc

FAQ for H&SC ProfessionalsFAQ for Public

Care Cert Certificate


Impact upon care

• 3 million care workers

• Portable between sectors

• Start of a learning journey


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

http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/

http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/

http://www.hee.nhs.uk/

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