Enhance your skills with Skills for Care's eLearning resources designed for all those involved in preparing your service for CQC assessment. Access courses to support your team's journey toward achieving Good and Outstanding care ratings.
Skills for Care has designed a range of eLearning modules to help you understand what is expected of your service and how you can best evidence these expectations. For adult social care providers in England, the cost of these modules can be claimed back by new Government funding.
Each module is aimed at managers and quality and compliance leads, although anyone involved in CQC assessment can complete the module. You will be awarded a certificate upon completion.
All of our content is based on successful practice from real organisations and we use this insight to inform the interactive information and filmed examples of how good quality care impacts people, staff, managers and the wider business.
The content of these eLearning modules have also been updated to align with the new CQC Single Assessment Framework, reflecting the latest insight and recommendations to be ready.
Our eLearning offer currently consists of the following one-hour modules:
If you’re a new service, a new manager or are unfamiliar with CQC assessment, it's vital you are prepared. This module is also useful to introduce other staff at your service to the CQC assessment process.
Being prepared for CQC assessment eLearning covers:
- why assessment is important
- what and how will the CQC assess
- how to be ready for the Single Assessment Framework
- what does good and outstanding care look like
- who can help you prepare for assessment
- how to evidence you are meeting CQC expectations.
The module is fantastic and easy to use. It has helped me already. It’s very welcome at a time where focussing on this important area has been difficult. I have not found it easy obtaining quality advice in this area. I know I can trust Skills for Care. It has helped me to be clearer about how to prepare for inspection.
Amy Hilton, Registered manager
Radfield Home Care Bexhill, Hastings & Battle
I thought the course was informative, easy to follow and explained the assessment process really well. I would highly recommend this course to all my team.
John Edgley, Registered manager
Creative Support
If your service has fallen below CQC standards, quick recovery is essential to ensure the quality of care provided is adequate and to protect your reputation.
Improving your CQC rating eLearning covers:
- the impact of falling below CQC standards
- how to identify and prioritise areas for improvement
- involving others in helping you to improve
- how to test, review and implement improvements
- what will be needed to meet the Single Assessment Framework
- practical ways to evidence improvements.
Great course, it really highlighted some of the things I already knew but didn’t quite grasp. I learnt how to look at the improvements needed and manage them in an effective and efficient way.
Frontline manager
This is a brilliant set of advice. Training like this is a great source of support.
Registered manager
For those committed to delivering the highest levels of care, this module covers how you can exceed CQC expectations to achieve an Outstanding rating.
Delivering Outstanding care eLearning covers:
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what does outstanding care look like
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identifying gaps between good and outstanding care
- how to be outstanding in the context of the Single Assessment Framework
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involving others in delivering outstanding care
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evidencing that you are delivering outstanding care.
This was extremely useful, for me as a new manager to look at what we do now and what we could be doing. It was reassuring to see actually how much of this I was already doing, so that made me feel confident, and it gave me inspiration for continuous improvement.
Marie Doyle, Registered manager
Jubilee house
Information that is provided is fantastic. All registered managers should complete the course.
Kelly MacDonald, Regional training manager
City and County Healthcare Group
Cost
£40 per module (or £36 if your organisation uses the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set).
Payment is made by credit/debit card.
Adult social care providers can claim back the full cost of purchasing each module via the new DHSC Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS). Read more about the eligibility for this fund here.
Access
To access the eLearning, visit www.learningfor.care and register for a new account. You’ll then be able to select your desired module and payment is made via credit/debit card.
Organisations with an Adult Social Care Workforce Dataset (ASC-WDS) account benefit from a 10% discount on the listed prices. Simply enter your ASC-WDS discount code when making payment to receive the discount. Email our ASC-WDS Support team if you need the discount code.
Modules are purchased on a one year license, with enrolment access to the module for a period of one year from date of purchase.