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Skillcare Training Academy

Training & professional development

We train our own carers to a standard we would want for our own families, and we deliver that same training to other organisations across London and Hertfordshire.

16 Care Certificate standards covered
16+ Refresher topics available
On-site Delivered at your premises
CPD Continuing professional development
Your training journey with us

One pathway, from first day to specialist

Practical, assessed, and delivered by people who still work in care. Take the whole pathway, or just the courses you need, at your site or ours.

Start here

1 programme

For new carers, or anyone without a completed induction. The foundation everything else sits on.

Day one
Care Certificate: Full Programme

All fifteen required standards, from understanding your role and duty of care through to basic life support, delivered as a complete induction pathway, with workbook and observed assessment.

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Mandatory core

5 programmes

The training a CQC inspector will ask to see evidence of. Every one is assessed, not just attended.

Safeguarding Adults & Children

Care Act 2014 aligned, at three levels (awareness, practitioner and lead), including the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS.

Course detail
Medication Management

Safe administration, MAR charts, controlled drugs, covert medication and error reporting, with competency sign-off.

Course detail
Moving & Handling: Practical

Hands-on and equipment-based: hoists, slide sheets, transfers and risk assessment. Practical assessment, not a slideshow.

Course detail
Health & Safety

Risk assessment, lone working, RIDDOR, COSHH, fire safety and correct PPE use, applied to real homecare situations.

Course detail
Infection Prevention & Control

UKHSA-aligned: standard precautions, hand hygiene, PPE, clinical waste, respiratory hygiene and outbreak management.

Course detail

Specialist & advanced

2 programmes

Added as a team's caseload needs it. Where a carer goes once the core is in place.

Specialist Condition Training

Dementia, Parkinson's, stroke, autism, learning disabilities and mental health: what each condition means in practice, and how care needs to change because of it.

Course detail
Clinical Skills for Carers

Delegated clinical tasks, observations and escalation: what carers may do, under what delegation, and the point at which the answer is to call a clinician.

Course detail

Not sure where your team sits on this? Tell us who you have and what they do. We will map it out and quote for the gap.

Refresher courses

Mandatory and refresher training, offered on a rolling cycle to keep teams current between full programmes. The list below is a sample — it is not the limit of what we run.

Safeguarding Adults Safeguarding Children Medication Moving & Handling Dementia Awareness Fire Safety First Aid & BLS Infection Control Record Keeping Communication & Dignity Equality & Diversity Data Protection / GDPR Wellbeing & Resilience Mental Capacity Act End of Life Awareness Digital Skills for Carers PPE & COSHH

Who this is for

Individual care workers Homecare agencies Residential care homes NHS community teams Social care departments GP practices & PCNs Supported living providers Family carers (informal)
More coming soon

The Academy is growing

We are building this section out properly: full course outlines, dates and availability, tutor profiles, accreditation detail, and online booking for individual places and whole-team bookings alike.

Detailed course outlines Dates & availability Meet the trainers Accreditation detail Online booking In-house team packages

In the meantime, everything listed above this panel is available now. Call us and we will put a programme together around your team.

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