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Health and Social Care Courses

We have built an expertise in Health and Social Care over more than two decades, training thousands of learners in the sector every year.

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The Care Certificate

Vital training for new Health and Social Care staff.

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Mandatory Training

View our full suite of mandatory training courses for Health and Social Care staff.

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Special Focus

For Health and Social Care staff required to carry out more specialist tasks in their day to day roles.

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Mental Health

Mental health training courses designed by our highly qualified and experienced curriculum team.

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Clinical Skills

Training available for Health and Social Care staff in epilepsy, diabetes, inhalers, PEG feeding and more.

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Health and Safety in Care

We can provide specialist health and safety training for care workers.

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Stoma Care Awareness Level 2

The Stoma Care Awareness Level 2 course is specifically designed for delegates working in the adult social care sector. The aim of this course is to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of stomas, including their purpose, potential side effects, and the physical and emotional support required by individuals who have a stoma.

Successful completion of the Stoma Care Awareness Level 2 course will result in the issuance of a certificate that remains valid for 3 years. This certification recognizes the participants' understanding of stoma care and their ability to provide appropriate support to individuals with a stoma in the adult social care sector.

The course has a duration of 3 hours, allowing participants to gain valuable insights and practical knowledge within a concise timeframe. The training sessions are interactive and engaging, incorporating discussions, case studies, and scenario-based exercises to facilitate learning and the application of skills.

Learning Objectives

  • Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the digestive system
  • Identify and explain the different types of stoma and the reasons why they are fitted
  • Understand and explain the dietary requirements for people with different types of stoma
  • Recognise complications and abnormalities which may be experienced with a stoma

Clinical Skills Courses

Covers healthy bowel function, constipation, bowel training goals and administration of suppositories and enemas.

Classroom training

Covers diabetes and the different types, signs of complications, actions in the event of hypo or hyperglycaemia, treatments for diabetes, measuring blood glucose and ketone levels, insulin administration, site rotation and lipohypertrophy.

Classroom training

Covers the digestive system, different types of stoma, dietary requirements, complications and abnormalities and emptying and changing a pouch with dignity, privacy and infection control.

Classroom training

Covers respiratory function, the respiratory system, types of tracheostomy, humidification, suction, speaking valves, eating with a tracheostomy and TRACHE and care of the stoma site. Learners practice tape changes, cleaning inner cannula and single lumen tube change.

Classroom training

Covers enteral feeds, the digestive system, surgical insertion of feeding tubes, indications for having a PEG, risks involved in having a PEG, potential complications and infection risk. Learners practice standard procedures in relation to the delivery of feed and medication via feeding tubes.

Classroom training

Ensures learners have an understanding of catheterisation and have practical competency to catheterise an individual.

Classroom training

Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with a basic knowledge of epilepsy, the management of seizures and the use of emergency medication.

Classroom training
Online webinar 
eLearning course

This classroom training aims to ensure learners have an understanding of how to care for a person with an indwelling catheter. The course is taught in person by one of our trainers.

Classroom training

Aim: To provide delegates with a basic knowledge of epilepsy and the management of seizures.

Classroom training
Online webinar

Aim: To provide healthcare support workers and adult social care workers with a greater awareness about diabetes, its symptoms, treatments and side effects for those working with people who have diabetes.

Classroom training
Online webinar

This 2-hour classroom informs healthcare support workers and social care workers about anaphylaxis and explains the administration of medication to control it.

Classroom training

Aim: To introduce healthcare support workers and adult social care workers to the use of inhalers and nebulisers, when treating asthma and COPD.

Classroom training

This course aims to introduce healthcare support workers and adult social care workers to the basic techniques used to observe and monitor the condition of patients and individuals using services, including pain and discomfort levels.

Classroom training

Aim: To ensure that delegates working in the adult social care sector have an understanding of what a stoma is, why a person may have one and the potential side effects.

Classroom training
Online webinar

Aim: To give learners the underpinning knowledge of the principles of PEG feeding.

Classroom training
Online webinar