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    Workplace Essentials Training

    This group of courses cover 9 different areas to give a safe workplace environment, such as: COSHH awareness, Emergency First Aid at Work, Fire Safety, Manual Handling, Risk Assessment, Mental Health Awareness, and more.

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    Risk Assessment Training

    Risk assessment training educates individuals on identifying, evaluating, and managing risks in diverse settings, ensuring safety in workplaces and other environments prone to hazards.

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    Community Basic Life Support Course

    This training equips individuals with essential skills like CPR, AED use, and choking assistance to effectively respond to emergencies, potentially saving lives until professional help arrives and is suitable for Parents, carers and children giving a set of basic life saving first aid techniques.

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    Dementia Awareness Training

    This course provides participants with essential knowledge and understanding of dementia, including symptoms, effects, and management strategies. It aims to raise awareness about dementia-related issues, promote empathy towards individuals living with dementia, and equip attendees with practical skills to better support those affected by the condition.

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    Medication Awareness Training

    This course looks at the roles and responsibilities of individuals for administering, storing, and recording information about the use of medicines, legislative requirements, providing guidance on safe administration, storage and disposal of medications and looks at the rights of clients.

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    Epilepsy Awareness Training

    In this course learners will have a basic understanding of how epilepsy is diagnosed, outline the differences between some seizures and experienced epilepsy. Learners will also be able to understand and list treatments and explain how to give first aid to someone who is having a seizure caused by epilepsy.

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    Safeguarding Children Training

    Safeguarding Children refers to the process of protecting children and to provide safe and effective care. This includes all the procedures designed to prevent harm to a child. This means protecting against abuse and neglect.

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    Equality and Diversity Training

    This equality diversity course is aimed at individuals and employers alike who wish to gain further skills to develop careers and progress in the workplace. Suitable for those interested in social awareness and looking for diversity training within the workplace, the community or at home.

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    Diabetes Awareness Training

    This course will help learners understand what diabetes is, know the cause of diabetes, the symptoms, how diabetes is treated and how it can be prevented, and an awareness of complications that can be caused through diabetes.

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    Stress Awareness Training

    This course will help learners describe what is meant by the term ‘stress’, explain the UK context of stress, recognise the organisational impact of stress, understand the legal implications of not managing stress and understand what can be done to manage stress in our lives.

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    Food Hygiene Training

    This course will help learners describe the legal requirement with regard to food hygiene and safety, explain the results of poor food hygiene practices, recognise the causes of food poisoning, and understand the importance of correct food handling and preparation at work.

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    Fire Safety & Fire Marshal Training

    The fire safety course covers fire prevention in the workplace and the behaviour expected in the event of a fire at work. The fire triangle is used to help the learner understand how fires are started, and how to spot fire hazards.

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    Effective Communication Training

    This course covers the importance of effective communication at work, how to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals, explain how to promote effective communication, describe the principles and practices relating to confidentiality, and explain the importance of handling information correctly.

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    Emergency First Aid at Work Training

    This course enables a first aider to give emergency first aid to someone who is injured or becomes ill at work. It also includes the EFAW syllabus and equips the first aider to apply first aid to a range of specific injuries and illness.

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    COSHH Awareness Training

    This course covers the legal obligations with regard to chemicals and substances. Consequences of poor chemicals and substances controls. Work safely with chemicals and substances within their working environment. Identify problems associated with chemicals used in their environment.

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    First Aid Basic Life Support Training

    Basic life support describes a set of basic life saving first aid techniques. This will cover safe management of an incident and dealing with an unresponsive non-breathing casualty (CPR & chain of survival).

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    People Manual Handling Training

    In this course it will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to practice safe manual handling, know how to carry out an individual risk assessment and use equipment safely.

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    Autism Awareness Training

    This course aims to improve your knowledge and understanding of autism and will provide an overview of what autism is and how living with autism impacts day-to-day life. It will also help you with common misunderstandings and provide you with simple strategies to support autistic people.

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    Mental Capacity and DOLS Training

    This course provides the knowledge and understanding of the Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) which protect people who lack mental capacity from being detained when it’s not in their best interests. Having mental capacity means being able to understand and retain information and to make a decision based on that information.

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    End of Life Care Training

    This course aims to improve end of life care practice and establish a standard across all services. You will learn about various aspects of end-of-lifecare including communication, managing discomfort, and supporting individual loss.

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    Nutrition and Fluids Training

    This course provides the principles of hydration, nutrition, and food safety in supporting individuals to have access to fluids in accordance with their care plan and support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their care plan.

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    Person Centred Care Training

    This course covers the legislation and standards governing person centred care, understand the meaning and importance of person-centred care, the importance of privacy and dignity, how to promote choice and independence and explain how to improve care delivered to ensure person centred care.

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    Personal & Pressure Care Training

    This course provides understanding of the role of the carer when providing personal care, understand incontinence and its control the importance of personal hygiene procedures, and understand pressure sores and how they can be avoided.

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    Positive management of violence and aggression (PMVA) Training

    This is to help reduce the risks of violence and aggression by developing staff knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively employ de-escalation skills, breakaway and disengagement tactics or control and restraint interventions appropriately within the context of their service users.

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    Infection Control Training

    Its essential in preventing the spread of disease in and around the workplace. This course provides the understanding of the consequences of poor infection control practice and state the actions to be taken relation to the infection control requirements put in place at their place of work and more.

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    Health and Safety Training

    This course provides the knowledge and skills for keeping the wellbeing of people safe from injury or disease at work and in public places. This is important because it keeps members of staff or the public safe and prevents incidents and accidents from happening in the workplace.

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    Paediatric First Aid Training

    This course covers everything you need to know on helping a sick, injured or ill child, prior to the arrival of the emergency services. Completed in a classroom setting covering theory on day 1 and practical on day 2. The practical day provides the abilities needed to save a baby or young child in an emergency.

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    Understanding your Role, Personal Development and Duty of Care Training

    This training course will provide awareness on your role, behaviours and what is expected from you in your job role including working relationships in health and social care and work in partnership, develop their knowledge, skills and understanding.

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    Prevention of Falls Training

    Learners will be able to define what is meant by falls in the workplace, explain the costs associated with falls in the workplace, describe key legislation relating to fall in the workplace, demonstrate hazard analysis and risk assessment in relation to falls and list methods of falls management and prevention.

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    Manual Handling of Loads Training

    This course will provide you with safe manual handling practices, so you know how to carry out an individual risk assessment, move loads and use equipment safely within your workplace.

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    Safeguarding Adults Training

    Safeguarding refers to the process of protecting adults and to provide safe and effective care. This includes all the procedures designed to prevent harm to an adult. This means protecting against abuse and neglect.

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    Health Care Mandatory Training Day

    This training day is for agencies, private organisations and individual carers covering the 10 mandatory subjects required in health and social care.

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    Leading and managing others workshop

    This Management and Leadership 1 day Workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills to successfully lead others, learn and practice skills such as goal setting, delegating, coaching and communication.

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    Mental Health Awareness Training

    This course teaches how to support yourself and others in difficult times, coping with stress, building personal team resilience, and dealing with distressed people. It also provides learners with the skills how to recognise mental health crises, provide immediate support, and help people access resources for long-term support.