The core course, ‘Clinical Risk Management Training’, comprises seven sessions and one assessment session. The second module, ’Community of Interest’, is an area where people can find knowledge and share good practice.

You can click on the e-learning and video guides below:

• THINK DELIRIUM e-learning
• West Yorkshire & Harrogate Partnership produced some free awareness raising materials and e-Learning.
• Film 3 – Grace = A scenario set in a care home.  Grace (elderly lady) is in a care home and over the last 2 weeks she has been falling frequently.  She frequently appears to be talking to herself, sometimes loudly, but it is hard to understand what she is saying.
• Film 4 – Eric = A scenario in a domiciliary care setting.  Eric (older man, mild dementia) lives alone in a sheltered flat and his domiciliary carer, who knows him well, arrives for his morning visit to help get him up, washed and dressed and to have his breakfast.

The UCLPartners End of Life Care Team has created an innovative educational resource called What’s Best for Lily, designed specifically for care home staff, supporting them to deliver excellent care for residents (including those with dementia) at the end of life:

• Compassionate care of a resident with dementia and those important to the resident
• Communication and documentation of wishes/recommendations on what to do should the resident deteriorate
• The importance of using this documentation in a situation when the resident deteriorates, to avoid a hospital admission
• Recognition that a resident with dementia is reaching the last days of life
• Communication with the resident, those important to the resident, and other staff in the last days of life
• Compassionate care in the last days of life

These resources include an educational film, a lesson planning guide and a facilitator pack.

What’s best for Lily? End of life training for care home staff – UCLPartners

Free online training called “Freda’s fall” on: e-LfH Hub

Make a real difference – become a RoSPA Fall Fighter – Read more

This is an e-learning programme split into 3 tiers (1, 2a &2b) for general public, health and social care professionals respectively that is compliant with the skills for health ‘Frailty core capabiities framework’. This programme offers promotion of a common language across all sectors to support embedding enhanced clinical skills and competencies in an existing workforce. This programme endorses the prerequisite to personalise care to meet the needs of individuals living with varying degrees of frailty to support improved health outcomes. 

During 2020/21, work on frailty screening resources continued and a best practice screening for social care toolkit has been developed in conjunction with Hampshire County Council

Health Education England e-learning programme (eLfH)

You can access the elearning sessions free of charge even if you do not work for an NHS organisation and / or do not have an NHS email address. You will need to register with the elfh Hub at https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Register and complete all the registration fields. Enter your email address and confirm. On the following screen, ‘Registration/About you’ select ‘None of the above apply to me’ and press CONTINUE. On the next screen, ‘Registration details’, if you cannot find your job role in the choices under Your Current Role, Job Role (Staff Group), please type “other” into the box and select that option. If you cannot find your place of work within the list, please select “Unknown location”.

All resources are freely available to colleagues working in the NHS, independent sector, and social care.  The full catalogue of over 100 e-learning materials including topics such as:

MCA Medications, dementia, preventing falls, end of life care, improving mouth care, care certificate, hydration, management and leadership skills, continence, safeguarding and more!

Skills for Care

Skills for Care have e-learning resources, guides and a wealth of information regarding the learning and development of your staff, to look at the resources available here.

Social Care Institute for Excellence

Social Care Institute for Excellence has online latest information and training for social care staff, sorted by topic.

Use the tabs in this section to view some of the e-learning offers currently available!

An e-learning programme has been developed to increase knowledge and confidence in assessing an older person’s hydration needs and minimise the risk of poor hydration in a person-centred way.  

Aimed at any person working with older people in the community, including care home staff, home carers, family carers and volunteers, the e-learning builds on the information and skills you may have already learnt and implemented from the Care Certificate. 

The hydration e-learning programme is part of the Hydration at Home toolkit which includes resources for the general public, including a hydration leaflet and poster.   

Accessing the e-Learning 

For more information about the e-learning resource, including access details, please visit e-lfh.

Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS were successful in accessing funding for all Care Providers across Lancashire and South Cumbria to access free training around medicines for all their staff. (PrescQIPP link).

There are two courses for domiciliary care: Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community Courses 1 and 2 – these are free.

There are three courses for care homes: Medicines use in care homes Course 1, 2 and 3 – most of which have been purchased on behalf of care homes by CCGs.

Staff will have to register for the website and choose the CCG area they are in.

The link to the HEE e-learning is here and this is free.

Carers UK has teamed up with Nutricia to develop this e-learning course, which aims to help carers understand the role of nutrition both for yourselves and for the person you’re looking after. 

React to Red is a resource to support the prevention of pressure ulcers in care homes and in the community.

This module is a complete resource with a training pack and video guide regarding pressure ulcers, it will take approximately 50-60 minutes to complete.

This e-learning package has been adapted from the React to Red Pressure Ulcer Prevention Training Pack developed by Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust and originally funded by Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group. 

The Skills for care registered manager webinars cover a range of topics to support managers and their services and have been developed since the start of the pandemic. 

They are delivered to a live audience and recorded for further viewing which you can watch below. They are 30-minutes long and some of the webinars are also supported with bite size resources.

Webinars cover the following 7 categories: 

① Training                          ⑤ Wellbeing
② HR                                  ⑥ Technology
③ Recruitment                    ⑦ End of life
④ Leading your service

Lancashire’s Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) have a series of virtual classroom courses. Click this link to book all Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen Virtual Training.

For Blackpool Safeguarding please visit the Blackpool website.

For Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board please visit the Cumbria website.

Lancashire Safeguarding Adults Board adopted the 7 Minute Briefing as a method of training which is an effective way of learning and sharing information across a range of services.

This programme is freely available to all volunteers and includes elearning resources for volunteers that have been designed by volunteers.  The programme supports completion of the National Volunteer Certificate (NVC) and also links to wider learning via the National Learning Hub for Volunteering.

The six core standards include content that all volunteers are encouraged to achieve when starting as a volunteer:

The standards are:

• Your role and responsibility
• Communication
• Respect for Everyone (Equality Diversity and Inclusion)
• Safeguarding (Adults and Children)
• Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability
• Health and Safety