Care sector courses for UK health and care staff

These care home staff training courses cover four topics that shape the daily experience of people receiving care: person-centred care and dignity, nutrition and hydration, falls prevention and dementia awareness. They are written for the staff who give that care, including care workers, senior carers, healthcare support workers, nursing assistants, nursing associates and nurses, and they work just as well for domiciliary care, supported living and hospital wards as for residential and nursing homes.

Each course takes about 2 hours, is self-paced and ends with a 15-question scenario-based assessment, a short written reflection and a certificate of completion from Healthcare Practise UK. Each one is written for all four UK nations, so a care worker in Glasgow, Cardiff or Belfast sees their own regulator, standards and capacity law alongside England's. You buy and take the courses on our course portal, one at a time or as a team.

Healthcare Practise UK is an independent provider. We are not affiliated with CQC, the Care Inspectorate, Care Inspectorate Wales, RQIA, any professional regulator or the NHS, and none of them has reviewed these courses. They support awareness and reflection; your employer still decides what counts as mandatory training and assesses your practice.

Person-Centred Care, Dignity and Privacy for Care Workers

Seven modules on knowing the person, planning care with them, offering real choices, consent and mental capacity law, intimate care with dignity, privacy and confidentiality, independence and relationships, and speaking up when care falls short. It maps to CQC Regulations 9 and 10 in England, Scotland's Health and Social Care Standards and the Welsh and Northern Irish standards, and can support learning against Care Certificate Standards 5 and 7. See the person-centred care training.

Nutrition and Hydration Awareness in Care Settings

Six modules on who is at risk of malnutrition and dehydration, MUST screening and accurate weighing, signs that are easy to miss, mealtimes that work, helping someone to eat, food first and supplements, dysphagia, IDDSI levels 0 to 7 and safe use and storage of thickener, the 14 allergens, therapeutic and cultural diets, and food and fluid charts that are actually useful. It maps to CQC Regulation 14 and can support Care Certificate Standard 8. See the nutrition and hydration training.

Falls Prevention Awareness in Care Settings

Six modules built around NICE NG249 (2025): why people fall, individual risk factors from medicines and postural hypotension to delirium, continence and footwear, a safer environment, strength and balance, bed rails and other equipment, the first minutes after a fall, why no one should be manually lifted from the floor, post-fall observations, recording and review, and recovery after a hip fracture. See the falls prevention training.

Dementia Awareness for Health and Care Staff

Six modules on the main types of dementia, person-centred dementia care and life story work, communication, understanding distress as communication of unmet need, delirium, pain and daily living, and rights, capacity, deprivation of liberty, safeguarding and end-of-life care. It draws on NICE NG97 and can support awareness-level learning under the Dementia Training Standards Framework, Promoting Excellence and Good Work. See the dementia awareness training.

Most care providers use these titles in one of three ways.

1. Induction support. New staff take the person-centred care course early, then nutrition and falls, alongside the practical training and observed assessment their employer provides. In England the courses can support Care Certificate learning, but they do not replace the employer's sign-off.
2. Annual refreshers. Experienced staff complete one or two titles each year, chosen to match the home's improvement plan, for example falls after a cluster of incidents or nutrition after an inspection comment about mealtimes.
3. Targeted learning after a concern. When an audit, complaint or safeguarding review shows a gap, managers assign the relevant course to the staff involved and use its reflection prompts in supervision.

For teams, our course credit scheme lets a manager buy credits once, add staff by name and email, assign any course and follow progress, completion dates and certificates from a dashboard in the student portal, with a CSV export for your training matrix. Full details are on the for organisations page. Completion records help you show what learning staff have done; inspectors will still look at how that learning shows up in care.

Beyond the four care sector titles, care providers often add:

• Safeguarding Adults: Essentials for Health and Care Staff, for recognising abuse and neglect and taking action;
• Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, for staff who contribute to capacity assessments and best interests decisions;
• Burnout, Resilience and Wellbeing for Healthcare Professionals, for nurses, managers and senior staff carrying heavy workloads.

The full course catalogue lists every title, with filters by regulator and concern.