Food Hygiene, Nutrition and Hydration in Social Care

When preparing food, feeding, and providing refreshments, it is important to ensure food safety requirements are met, and nutrition and hydration has been considered (and potentially monitored) to meet the needs and provide safety to people in your care.

Learn how to promote a safe and hygienic working environment when preparing, serving and clearing away food and drink, meeting all safety requirements whilst being able to support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their plan of care.

This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge to be able to promote nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings.

Learning Outcomes for this course include:

• Be able to apply food safety measure when providing food and drink for individuals
• Be able to maintain hygiene when handling food and drink
• Be able to meet safety requirements when preparing and serving food and drink for individuals
• Be able to meet safety requirements when clearing away food and drink
• Be able to store food and drinks safely
• Be able to state the principles of hydration and nutrition
• Be able to support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their plan of care
• Know how to safely access additional advice or support about food safely

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 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 working in a Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Framework

Our Food Hygiene, Nutrition and Hydration 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.