Course Topics

Adults with Incapacity Scotland

The course is designed to raise awareness of the definitions of mental illnesses and incapacity and to enable participants to explore the impact that incapacity can have on the individual concerned, why these impacts are present and what approaches could be utilised to minimise or remove them.

Challenging Behaviour Scotland

Designed for anyone working in the care sector to ensure that they understand how to identify and diffuse difficult and threatening situations involving aggression, intimidation and many other types of challenging behaviour. The course also teaches delegates how to identify the factors that might trigger challenging behaviour as well as how to manage challenging situations using simple intervention techniques.

Domestic Abuse Awareness Scotland

This course has been designed to help you to understand the subject and to support people you are working with who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse.  It will equip learners with the tools to be able to recognise abuse, instigate and work within recommended processes and to understand the legislative and organisational frameworks that relate to their working environment.

Duty of Care Scotland

The aim of this course is to give the learner an understanding of their own duty of care in the workplace. By the end, learners will be able to understand how their duty of care contributes to safe practice in the health and social care sector, the dilemmas they may face in the workplace, and how to resolve these dilemmas, possibly with additional support and advice.

Equality and Diversity Scotland

Mapped to Qualification and Credit Framework unit SHC023 as taken from the Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care.  This course is about value based working. It is intended to support the promotion of self-awareness in relation to equality and diversity issues. It has also been designed to introduce the concept of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Fire Prevention and Awareness

This course has been mapped to the learning outcomes of the QCF unit HSC 2019.  It has been designed to help you collect the evidence you require to demonstrate that you meet the requirements to operate safely within your organisation. It goes through the law, the theory of fire with the various types of fire extinguishers and how best to prevent a fire.

Health and Safety Awareness Scotland

This course has been designed to help you collect the evidence required to demonstrate an understanding of Health and Safety and ensure you know the responsibilities you have in regards to Health and Safety. This course covers manual handling, COSHH, fire safety and stress management.

This course is mapped to the learning outcomes of the Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) units: HSC027; HSC037; HSC2028; MH203. It is also mapped to the National Occupational Standards: CHS2; CHS6; SCDHSC0022; SCDHSC0223; SCDHSC0032.

Person-Centred Support Scotland

This person-centred support course has been designed to help you to understand the subject and to support people you are working with. This course is designed to promote a person-centred approach to how learners work and to ensure that the person being supported has as much control as possible over the way they live and the care/support they receive. It will equip learners with the tools to be able to work within recommended processes and to understand the legislative and organisational frameworks that relate to their working environment.

Safeguarding Children and Young People Scotland

To provide the building blocks of knowledge which equip and underpin the working practices of all those involved in safeguarding children and young people at risk, across a multi-agency spectrum. Safeguarding is everyone’s business and all care groups involved in safeguarding must be able to recognise abuse and neglect and know how to make effective referrals.

To gain a clear understanding of how to identify and report potential abuse and be able to recognise those that are particularly vulnerable to abuse. This course has been developed specifically for frontline support and housing care to increase the practitioner’s skills and knowledge of the safeguarding processes, relating to vulnerable children and young people.

Safeguarding Adults Scotland

This Safeguarding Adults course provides the building blocks of knowledge which equip and underpin the working practices of all those involved in safeguarding adults at risk across a multi-agency spectrum. Safeguarding is everyone’s business and all staff groups involved in safeguarding must be able to recognise abuse and neglect and know how to make effective referrals.

This course helps to gain a clear understanding of how to identify and report potential abuse and be able to recognise those that are particularly vulnerable to abuse. It has been developed specifically for frontline support and housing staff to increase the practitioner’s skills and knowledge of the safeguarding processes relating to vulnerable adults.

Course Audience

This online course is aimed at those working in health and social care in Scotland.

Course Duration

Approximately 10 hours

Course Structure and Functionality

This course has been designed in a non-linear and modular fashion which means you may complete the units in any order you wish.

You progress will be tracked so don’t worry if you have to dip in and out.  There will be a knowledge check at the end which will become available once you have completed all of the prescribed units.

The course also contains the following content functionality to help the learner become immersed and to reinforce their learning:

• Drag and drop words – to complete sentences.
• Drag and drop reordering – reorder the following steps according to said policy.
• An assorted array of “custom pages” i.e. scene exploration and “gamified” scenarios.

In addition to this the side panel of the course contains information that is always at hand for the user:

• A help menu
• Notes – this is where the user can make notes during the course and can then download them
• Legal information
• A glossary
• Specific course information

A CPD Certified Course

This online course has reached the required Continuing Professional Development (CPD) standards and benchmarks, and the learning values have been scrutinised to ensure integrity and quality by the CPD Certification Service.

Skills for Care

This online course is from a Skills for Care Centre of Excellence for e-Learning. Skills for Care is the employer-led strategic body for workforce development in social care for adults in England. Their Centre of Excellence award is for ‘exemplary practice going above and beyond, constantly evolving to meet the needs of adult social care and being innovative in the delivery to ensure the needs of the learners are met’.

Payment Options and Discounts

For purchases of 1 to 9 user enrolments select the number of users you require and add the product to your shopping cart by selecting Add to Cart. You will then be able to make payment using most credit and debit cards or a Paypal account.

For a licence for 10 or more user enrolments, discounts, or if you would like to pay by BACs transfer or by invoice, please contact a customer advisor on 0844 854 9218 or email [email protected].

Purchasing Options for your Organisation

We offer a variety of purchasing options giving you total flexibility in how you purchase online training for your organisation. Let us know your requirements and we’ll advise you on the most cost efficient method of purchasing:

• User Licence – a licence for a specified user on specified course/s. The user licence consists of a number of enrolments for a user to use on specified courses.
• Course Licence – a licence for specified course/s for any learner. The course licence consists of a number of enrolments to use on specified course/s for any learner;
• Bundle Licence – a licence for a specified bundle of courses. The bundle licence consists of a number of enrolments to use on any course for any learner in the bundle;
• Subscription Licence – a licence for a maximum number of users to access any course in a specified bundle;
• Site Licence – a licence to install one course, or one or more bundles of courses on your own learning management system. The site licence consists of a number of enrolments to use on any course for any learner in the bundle;

For more information on purchasing options and discounts please phone a customer advisor on 0844 854 9218.