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Statutory & Mandatory Training: Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

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Course Overview

Format

Intermediate
4 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

4 CPD Hours
CPD Certified

Course description

This course provides information on the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. It ensures that all staff who work in a healthcare setting understand how to ensure that people in their care are treated with dignity. It also includes information on ‘best interests’ decisions taken on behalf of vulnerable parties, authorisation process for the deprivation of liberty and the documentation of assessment decisions.

What does this course cover?

The training material on the course covers the following training out comes:

Know the five statutory principles of the Mental Capacity Act and understand why they are needed.
Understand how to assess if someone has capacity to make a particular decision.
Know how to make a ‘best interests’ decision for someone
Know how to document assessments and decisions made on behalf of service users who lack capacity.
Understand what is meant by deprivation of liberty.
Be able to describe the key elements of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
Know the process for authorising deprivation of liberty.
Be aware of the process for challenging decisions.

Statutory & Mandatory Training: Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Certificate

Both courses are accredited by CPD. The certificates, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.

Each end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.

You will learn

Know the five statutory principles of the Mental Capacity Act and understand why they are needed

Understand how to assess if someone has capacity to make a particular decision

Know how to make a ‘best interests’ decision for someone

Know how to document assessments and decisions made on behalf of service users who lack capacity

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Anyone working in a healthcare role such as care assistants, social care workers, and nurses

How the online courses work

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Buy the course

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.
If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.