The Affinity Care CertificateIn Partnership with City & Guilds

Release Date 1 April 2015st

This document outlines the Affinity Care Certificate to be launched in April 2015

in line with the UK Government Legislation.

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The Care Certificate

The Problem

From April, all UK CQC / SCI registered health and social care providers will have to provide the Care Certificate. This must be delivered to all new care staff employed, that have no previous experience of working within the Industry, delivering Personal Care.

The Care Certificate covers 15 Standards and only allows the employee to work unsupervised once deemed competent and assessed against the Standard they are working in.

Skills for Care & Skills for Health estimate that a time frame of 12 weeks could be needed to complete the Care Certificate. This places an obvious strain on budgets and cash flow, not to mention recruitment policies.

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There are many other issues:

How do I assess that they are competent?

Who is going to teach the standards?

How and where do I evidence this?

How do I prove to CQC that my new staff

member has completed the Care Certificate?

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Providing the Solution

How It Works

At eLearning For You we have been working with our sister company Affinity Training to bring about a blended package that provides the solution. Our aim is to provide a cost effective and time considered process that allows you to confidently train your new starter to the highest standard.

This is why we are delighted to announce our partnership with City & Guilds, a UK based, and world leading education accreditation board.

Our design & development stage has involved rigorous processes of testing, ensuring that our solution is leading the way in the market.

eLearning For You has designed and developed a state of the art eLearning course that not only covers all knowledge base within the Care Certificate but checks that knowledge of the learner partaking in end of module assessments.

We have created an e-portfolio to host all your evidence. This includes the ability to upload documents, complete on-line competency checks using our module competency templates and, through our fully established LMS, to issues reports on progress or completion rates of your employee at the touch of a button.

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Assessor Workshop

To Complete A Standard

To equip you with the confidence to assess and familiarise yourself with using the system, a member/s of your team will become a Care Certificate Assessor at one of our Face to Face Workshops hosted all over the UK. The Workshop will consist of Two Days and on successful completion the learner will be awarded a certificate valid for three years.

To complete a standard, three pieces of evidence must be produced. As a Mandatory requirement the learner will have to complete the eLearning course and have their physical competencies checked by the Care Certificate Assessor. This leaves an optional choice for the employee for each unit.

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Your Options

Case Study

Written Questions

Face to Face

Within the e-portfolio are a set of written questions for each module. Complete these questions covering

the set criteria and your Assessor will sign the module off.

Using our Case Study Headers, the candidate could write an assignment that covers the full range of a Standard. We can also show you how to cover

several Standards by writing a holistic assignment.

Attend a Face to Face Training course and upload the certificate. There is also the opportunity to evidence a recent supervision or a one to one

meeting held with an assessor.

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Our Online Systems will map all three of your pieces of evidence provided for each module. Once all 15 Standards have been complete, we will even issue you with a City & Guilds Certificate that you will have FOREVER!

Better still all your types of evidence are recognised within the QCF framework so will immediately cross-reference when you’re moving on to complete your apprenticeship. This means Less Work for YOU.

1. High standard of learning

2. Fully qualified assessors

3. Reporting System

4. e-portfolio lifetime storage solution

5. Competency questions & practical competency check lists for

each of the 15 Standards

6. Full Accreditation by City & Guilds

7. Direct link to the QCF

The Benefits of Our Care Certificate Solution?

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Period of Time to Complete the Care Certificate

Trial runs have indicated that 12 weeks should be the time ittakes to complete the certificate. This is dependent on a number of factors:

• How many hours per week the person will have to complete the standards.We estimate an average of five hours completion time for each Standard should be allowed. i.e. a total of 75 hours to complete all.

• The availability of the CC Assessor to check and input data to the LMS.

The Assessor must be available to Coach and Mentor the learner. This will include writing up Direct Observations, asking Verbal Questions of the learner, marking Written Questions completed by the learner and checking Practical Competencies. This could potentially be 1 hour per module thus 15 hours per learner, per certificate.

• The academic capabilities of the learner.As is common with learners in many qualifications, the academic capability and self motivation will impact on the length of time it takes to complete.

Moving & Handling Practical must be delivered as a Face to Face Session before any Moving and Handling activities can be undertaken as is required under the Manual Handling Operation guidelines 1992.

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The Care Certificate Assessor courses will commence in April 2015. These will be conducted over two days and cover all knowledge and competencies needed to assess. To be eligible for the training, Assessors must hold at least Level 3 NVQ/QCF and have at least two years experience in the field of Care. Each session will have a maximum of 30 learners.

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