Mandatory Training For Care Homes – the requirements
Annual mandatory training courses must include fire safety, moving and handling, and health and safety. There is also an expectation that every shift is covered by at least one person who has been trained in first aid. This can be a huge but necessary expectation of both the staff and the home.
Which Training Courses are Mandatory for Care Homes?
Mandatory Training For Care Homes – This is not a straightforward answer and ultimately the requirements will vary depending on the size of the Care Home, its services and outcome from its own risk assessment on site.
Regulation 23 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 states:
The registered person must have suitable arrangements in place in order to ensure that persons employed for the purposes of carrying on the regulated activity are appropriately supported in relation to their responsibilities, to enable them to deliver care and treatment to service users safely and to an appropriate standard by:
(a) Receiving appropriate training, professional development, supervision and appraisal; and
(b) Being enabled, from time to time, to obtain further qualifications appropriate to the work they perform.
Outcome 14 is the outcome that CQC uses to ensure a service meets the requirements stipulated in regulation 23 and this states:
People who use services:
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Are safe and their health and welfare needs are met by competent staff
This is because providers who comply with the regulations will:
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Ensure that staff are properly supported to provide care and treatment to people who use services.
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Ensure that staff are properly trained, supervised and appraised.
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Enable staff to acquire further skills and qualifications that are relevant to the work they undertake.
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The common mandatory courses for a care home would be:
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Health and Safety awareness training
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Food Hygiene
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Manual Handling or/and Moving and Handling of People
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Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults or Safeguarding Children
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Infection Control
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Emergency First Aid at Work
This list could also include Mental Capacity Act training. Fire Safety training is not mentioned within this list as this would result, where required, from the organisations statutory Fire Risk Assessment.
These courses also reflect and address many of the Common Induction Framework objectives.
Professional registration and development requirements relates to Medicines Administration for Qualified Nurses and Supervision, Care Planning and Report Writing training.
The key is to enable staff to take part in learning and development that is relevant and appropriate so that they can carry out their role effectively.