Core Skills for Health and Social Care Workers

Core Skills for Health and Social Care Workers

This personal development course enables care workers to know and understand the minimum basic skills that an adult requires to function in a workplace in the UK.

Core skills enable staff to complete everyday tasks. In the workplace, core skills are essential for accomplishing basic tasks, even the lowest level of tasks.

Core Skills include:

Literacy skills (English Reading and Comprehension, Writing, Speaking),
Numeracy skills (Mathematics - Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, Dividing, Doing calculations, Recording numbers, measurements, use timetables, planning work etc),
Digital skills
Employability skills, including personal learning and thinking skills (PLTS), team work, problem solving skills, and more

Core skills ensure that health and social care workers can complete everyday tasks, such as, communicating with the people they support, counting medication, using a computer and writing a care plan.

This course also enables care workers to understand the safety implications having the basic core skills to record their own activities on a care chart, or basic counting or measuring, or any other basic documentation required by even the most junior care assistants during their care duties

This course supports all Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors and anyone else who leads staff or colleagues to understand why they must improve their own core skills to the required level, and how to raise awareness in their team members of the requirements of minimum core skills competence for all care staff working in their setting.

Access to coursework: 12 months

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Who is this course for?
This courses is for anyone who working as front line staff in any health and social care service, and those aspiring to start a career in the relevant field like as:
- Health Care Assistant
- Domiciliary Care Assistant
- Mental Health Support Worker
- Elderly Care Worker
- Mental Health Care Worker
- Homecare Assistant
- Daycare Worker
- Residential Support Worker
- Health visitors
- Care Assistant
- Care Support Worker
- Mental Health Care Worker
- Midwife
- Nursing Assistant
- Occupational Therapist
- Rehabilitation Counsellor
- Mental Health Care Worker
- Social Care Worker
- Assistant Practitioner
- Healthcare Assistant
- Home Care Worker
- Live in Care Assistant
- Personal Care Assistant
- Child Support Worker
- Social Worker
- Care Worker
- Mental Health Care Worker
- Psychologist
- Counsellor
- Nurses
- Doctors
- and anyone else working in frontline with direct contact with users of the service.