Introduction to Care Certificate

Get started with your journey to attaining the Care Certificate; an industry-wide recognised award. The Care Certificate is intended to deliver standardised training on the fundamentals of care – the skills and knowledge needed to work in a quality caring way.Once achieved, the intention is that the Certificate will be recognised by other employers so can be taken with the staff member to new jobs. It covers 15 areas of competency. Each one is broken down into learning outcomes and assessment criteria. Once a member of staff has been assessed as competent against all of them the Certificate is awarded.