Dignity in Health and Social Care

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With this Dignity in a health and social care setting course, discover the principle that underpins dignity in care as well as exploring how to maintain the dignity, respect and privacy of an individual.
Course Level: Introductory Course
Accreditation: CPD Certified
Certificate: Self printed
Description
It is important to understand that all individuals deserve to be treated with dignity and respect with their feelings and individual identities consider by all in health and social care settings.
With this short online course discover the principles that underpin dignity in health and social care and how to maintain dignity, respect, and privacy of an individual with topics including how to promote independence, how to address basic human needs and encourage participation.
This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge of Dignity.
Legislation mentioned in this course includes Equality Act 2010, Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Learning Outcomes for this course include:
- Outline the principles that underpin dignity in care
- Maintain the dignity, respect and privacy of an individual
Accreditation
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Certification
At the beginning of each module learners will be asked to answer a “knowledge check” question. Answering the question correctly will allow learners the opportunity to skip this section. However, if they wish to complete it anyway, they are still able to.
On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a Virtual College certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate.
Duration
30 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.
Target Audience
This training is designed for anyone working in a health and social care environment such as care workers and support workers wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role as well as for anyone wanting annual refresher training.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Framework
Our Person Centred Care in Social Care online training course is mapped to the Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework.
Here we explain the framework and its importance.
Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework:
The Core and Mandatory Training framework was produced by skills for care in partnership with a panel of social care employers, learning providers and representative organisations and was updated in line with CQC’s revised inspection framework.
It sets out a series of minimum learning objectives and a suggested refresher frequency, to support care organisations to provide their staff with a foundation of learning and refresher opportunities.
What you'll learn
- Outline the principle that underpin dignity in care
- Maintain the dignity, respect and privacy of an individual
Suitable for
- Care workers in residential/domiciliary settings, or support workers, wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role
- For anyone working in a Health and Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Hospice Staff
- Surgeons
Certification
Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.

Self-Printed Certificate Option
Upon completion of the course, a digital certificate will be available to download instantly.
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