Care Certificate Standard 16 – Awareness of Learning Disability and Autism
Care Certificate Standard 16 – Awareness of Learning Disability and Autism online course can be studied alone, or can be studied as part of the full 16 standards of the Care Certificate.
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About Care Certificate Standard 16
This course provides the learner to general awareness of people with a learning disability and autistic people and the support they need.
The course includes knowledge and understanding of learning disability, autism, communication requirements, the adjustments required when providing care and support to autistic individuals or those with a learning disability.
Learning topics covered include:
- Introduction to Care Certificate Standard 16
- Relevant Legislation
- Understanding learning disability
- Understanding autism
- Communication and Information
- Health Inequalities
- Providing care and support
- Reasonable adjustments
- Making adjustments
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Other Care Certificate Standards
Details of the other Care Certificate Standards
Care certificate Standard 1 - Understand Your Role
- Your responsibilities as a care worker,
- Understand own role
- Work in ways that have been agreed with your employer
- Understand working relationships in health and social care
- Work in partnership with others
Care certificate Standard 2 – Your Personal Development
- importance of personal development at work,
- understand different types of qualifications in the UK
- how to create your personal development plan and why this is important.
- how to develop your own knowledge, understanding and skills
- Understand core skills,
- use of supervision, appraisals and SMART objectives.
Care certificate Standard 3 – Duty of Care
- the importance of duty of care in your role,
- how duty of care contributes to safe practice,
- support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about duty of care,
- the ways to deal with comments, complaints, incidents, errors and near misses in your work,
- using policies and incident forms.
Care certificate Standard 4 – Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights
- the meaning of equality, diversity, discrimination,
- the different types of discrimination, at the barriers to equality and diversity in care, The Equality Act 2010 and the nine protected characteristics.
- how to work in an inclusive way
Care certificate Standard 5 – Work in a person-centred way
- Understand person-centred values
- the importance of working in a person centred way, including the 6Cs of care,
- factors that may cause discomfort or distress
- how to support individuals to minimise pain or discomfort
- how to support the individual to maintain their identity and self-esteem
- how to support individuals using the person-centred approach, the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Care certificate Standard 6 – Communication
- effective communication and why it is important in your role,
- different types of communication, including verbal and non-verbal communication,
- how to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals,
- how to support the use of communication aids and technologies
- why confidentiality in care is vital, and when confidentiality can be broken.
Care certificate Standard 7 – Privacy and dignity
- the principles that underpin privacy and dignity in care,
- how to maintain and respect privacy and dignity, and raise concerns
- helping individuals to make informed choices
- how to support active participation
Care certificate Standard 8 – Fluids and nutrition
- the importance of nutrition and hydration,
- importance of food safety and the relevant food safety legislation
- how to assess nutrition and hydration needs in a person-centred way
- circumstances that may affect an individual’s food and drink choice, such as beliefs, preferences, health conditions, medicines and support needed for individuals to eat and drink.
Care certificate Standard 9 – Awareness of Mental Health and Dementia
- awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities,
- relevant key legislation,
- the ways to promote communication with individuals who have learning disabilities,
- common mental health problems,
- meaning of mental capacity in relation to how care is provided
Care certificate Standard 10 – Adult Safeguarding
- the importance of safeguarding vulnerable adults
- what constitutes harm
- why an individual may be vulnerable to harm or abuse
- types of abuse that can occur, including Domestic Violence and Abuse Awareness
- signs and symptoms that indicate when a person is being abused,
- relevant legislation that applies to safeguarding vulnerable adults,
- how to reduce the likelihood of abuse
- how to record and report any safeguarding concerns.
Care certificate Standard 11 – Safeguarding Children
- the importance of safeguarding children,
- types of abuse children can experience
- signs and symptoms that indicate a child is being abused.
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Risk factors that increase the likelihood of abuse of a child in their own home
- Your Role in Safeguarding Children
- how to record and report safeguarding concerns.
Care certificate Standard 12 – Basic life support
- basic life support training,
- importance of CPR and the role of hand-only CPR,
- signs and causes of cardiac arrest,
- causes of an obstructed airway
- treatment of choking in adults, infants and children
- UK Resuscitation Council Resuscitation Guidelines
Care certificate Standard 13 – Health and Safety
- health and safety in care settings,
- main health and safety legislation that apply to health and social care workers, employer and employee responsibilities,
- health and safety in relation to administering medication, needles and sharps, moving and handling and using correct PPE
- promoting fire safety
- working securely
- managing stress
Care certificate Standard 14 – Handling information
- agreed ways of working and legislation regarding the recording, storing and sharing of information,
- importance of secure systems for recording, storing and sharing information,
- the eight Caldiott Principles,
- data protection principles and relevant legislation,
- how you can report concerns regarding the recording, storing or sharing of information internally, whistleblowing and reporting concerns externally
- data breaches and how to avoid them
- principles of good record keeping
- responsibilities of health and social care organisations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Care certificate Standard 15 – Infection control
- different types of infections,
- the chain of infection, the entry and exit routes of transmission and how to break the chain of infection,
- short-term and long-term consequences of infections
- employer and employee responsibilities regarding infection control
- effective hand hygiene
- principles of safe handling of infected or soiled linen and clinical waste
About the Care Certificate Standards
This Care certificate Standards online courses are ideal for anyone who works in any health and social care setting, or aspiring to work in such areas.
This Care Certificate Standards online courses provide comprehensive training that ensures staff induction meets the stringent requirements of CQC, making it perfectly tailored to support professionals and managers in training their workers.
Fee paid covers all online learning materials, tests and re-takes, and a separate completion certificate for each of the Standards.
See also
https://www.leaderinadultcare.com/category/bundles-of-courses
The courses and bundles are not interchangeable, and therefore you must be clear on which option you want before making payment.
Care certificate Standards online course with our expertly designed modules, provides you with valuable skills and insights essential for delivering exceptional care. Elevate your career while ensuring compliance and excellence in your workplace.
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