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The Care Certificate on Laser Short Courses

Tuesday 26th September, 2023

It is now possible to get your Care Certificate from Laser Short Courses!


What is the Care Certificate?

The Care Certificate is the expected certificate of induction for support workers across England. It was developed by Skills for Care and replaces the Common Induction Standards for adult social care.


The Care Quality Commission "...expect that providers who employ health care support workers and social care workers should be able to demonstrate that those staff have, or are working towards, the skills set out in the Care Certificate."


The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills, and behaviours expected of specific job roles in the health and social care sectors. Specifically, it is made up of the 15 minimum standards that should be covered if you are 'new to care' and should form part of a robust induction programme. These standards include important topics, such as:


• Duty of Care

• Privacy and Dignity

• Safeguarding adults and children

• Health and safety

• Infection prevention and control


What’s included in the Care Certificate course?

This Laser course was developed specifically for the Care Certificate and provides knowledge to cover every standard included in the official Skills For Care specifications.


Learning materials are varied in order to suit every Personal Learning Style and include bespoke video tutorials, presentations, reading materials, and quizzes.


In order to achieve the knowledge part of the Care Certificate, you will need to achieve 100% on the quiz at the end of each lesson.



You can then download the observation sheet for a manager or appropriate member of staff to sign off the practical part of the course by observing you putting your knowledge into practice in the work environment.



Once you have completed the knowledge part of the course, and been signed of as competent by your manager or appropriate member of staff, you will then have achieved the full Care Certificate which you will be directed to download from the Skills for Care website.



How long does the course take to complete?

Our Care Certificate course can be completed to your own schedule and in your own time. Official guidance suggests that it will take approximately 12 weeks to demonstrate the expected competencies and knowledge in a workplace setting, by means of observation by an occupationally competent practitioner.



Start your course today!

If you are purchasing this course for yourself, click here and automatically enrol on this course.


If you are an organisation with staff who need to complete this course, you should create a Business Account here. Your account will allow you to add staff as learner accounts, purchase licences, assign courses, and view each member of staff's progress with their course and store and view their certificates.


This helpful User Guide will walk you through the process.


We offer generous discounts for organisations who bulk buy licences (1 licence = 1 course per learner). The normal course price is £24.99 but a licence costs £12 – there is a minimum order of 10 licences.