A certificate to demonstrate high-quality care

The Care Certificate helps you to develop your skills, knowledge, and behaviours enabling you to provide compassionate, safe, and high-quality care.

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The Care Certificate covers the learning outcomes, competences and standards of behaviour that are expected of AHP Support Workers.

The Care Certificate aims to make sure that you are caring, compassionate and provide quality care in your work.

The Care Certificate is an assessement of both knowledge and competence that applies across the health and social care sectors.

The video below introduces the Care Certificate and the 15 standards it contains.

AHP Support Workers should complete the workbooks below to achieve the Care Certificate standards

  1. Understand your role
  2. Your personal development
  3. Duty of care
  4. Equality and diversity
  5. Work in a person centred way
  6. Communication
  7. Privacy and dignity
  8. Fluids and nutrition
  1. Awareness of mental health, dementia, and learning disability
  2. Safeguarding adults
  3. Safeguarding children
  4. Basic life support
  5. Health and safety
  6. Handling information
  7. Infection prevention and control