Support Worker Diploma & Care Assistant Certificate
Gain essential skills in family support, safeguarding, healthcare, and care assistance with this career-boosting course.
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Online
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What's included:
- Fully Online Recorded Class
- CPD Accredited
- Free certificate
- 24/7 access to the course for Lifetime
- Online support
- No hidden fees
Course Link : Support Worker Diploma & Care Assistant Certificate
This comprehensive course is designed for those looking to build a rewarding career in family support and care assistance. You'll learn how to help families solve problems, safeguard children, and provide quality care. The course also covers essential topics such as child development, nutrition, mental health, and infection control. With the Care Certificate Standards included, you will gain the necessary skills and knowledge to work in healthcare or social care settings. Whether you are starting fresh or upskilling, this course provides everything you need to become a confident and effective care worker. Enroll today and start making a difference!
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the role of a family support worker and care assistant.
- Learn how to solve family issues and provide effective support.
- Recognize child development stages and how to care for children.
- Know how to assess safeguarding needs and provide appropriate help.
- Gain knowledge of important laws, policies, and guidance in care work.
- Learn how to maintain children’s health, safety, and well-being.
- Understand the impact of nutrition on health and lifestyle.
- Identify symptoms, treatment, and prevention of illnesses like coronavirus.
- Develop skills in person-centered care and effective communication.
- Learn about mental health, dementia, and disabilities in care settings.
- Understand health and safety, infection control, and basic life support.
- Gain confidence in handling sensitive information with privacy and dignity.
Disclaimer:
This is an online course with pre-recorded lessons. You will get access to the course within 48 hours after your enrolment.
Course Modules
Module 1: Introduction to Family Support Work
Explore the responsibilities of a Support Worker and Care Assistant within families. Understand professional boundaries, communication techniques, and the Support Worker role in building trust and emotional support.
Module 2 & 3: Solving Family Issues
Equip your Support Worker and Care Assistant toolkit for family intervention. Learn crisis identification, problem-solving, mediation strategies, and effective solutions for family dynamics.
Module 4 & 5: Safeguarding – Assessing Need & Providing Help
Understand how a Support Worker and Care Assistant must identify safeguarding issues, conduct risk assessments, and collaborate with agencies. These modules build essential duty-of-care knowledge.
Module 6: Legislation, Policy & Guidance
Master legal frameworks for Support Worker and Care Assistant practice, including GDPR, Mental Capacity Act, and Children Act. This module ensures you can confidently apply procedures in real-world care settings.
Module 7: Understanding Child Development
Learn child psychology and development stages – crucial for Support Worker and Care Assistant roles in nurseries, schools, and family homes. Understanding age-appropriate behaviour, milestones, and interventions is key.
Module 8: Caring for Children
Build best practices in child care as a Support Worker and Care Assistant. Cover routines, play-based learning, emotional support, boundary setting, and recording child welfare.
Module 9: Healthy Food, Healthy Living
As a Care Assistant or Support Worker, help clients with nutritious meal planning, dietary needs, hygiene, and lifestyle advice to support well-being and independence.
Module 10: Keeping Children Healthy & Safe
Dive into safety protocols for Support Worker and Care Assistant roles. Learn safe transport, first aid basics, infection control, safeguarding, and environmental risk assessments.
Module 11: Child Protection
Develop skills for Support Worker and Care Assistant professionals to identify abuse, manage disclosures, record incidents, and work within child protection frameworks.
Modules 12–14: Coronavirus Awareness
Stay informed as a Support Worker and Care Assistant on COVID-19. Learn viral spread, variants, PPE use, safe care, isolation support, vaccination, treatment protocols, and prevention.
Care Certificate Course – Standards 1–15
Achieve the nationally recognized Care Assistant Certificate. Meet all 15 standards, covering duty of care, equality, communication, privacy, fluids & nutrition, dignity, safeguarding, basic life support, infection prevention, and more.
Who Should Enrol?
This course is perfect for:
- Aspiring Support Worker or Care Assistant professionals
- New Support Worker hired for family, child or adult care roles
- Employees needing Care Assistant Certificate compliance
- Existing Support Worker or Care Assistant seeking a role boost
- Caregivers, youth workers, and community support staff using Support Worker skills
Frequently asked questions
It’s a dual-program combining a vocational Support Worker Diploma and nationally recognized Care Assistant Certificate (Standards 1–15) to fully prepare you for care roles.
No, this is a fully online self-paced course, allowing you to complete it at your convenience, anytime, anywhere.
Once you purchase the ticket, we will assign you to the course within 48 hours and send your login details via email.
This is a self-paced course, so you can work through the material at your own speed.
Yes, we provide both a digital and a hard copy certificate free of charge. However, Hardcopy Certificate shipping costs apply—£3.99 within the UK and £10 for international addresses.
Yes, you will have lifetime access to the course and can revisit it anytime.
Yes, this course is designed for beginners, and no prior knowledge is required.
You will receive 24/7 learning assistance throughout your course.
No, you don’t need any special equipment. The course is self-paced and accessible on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
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Training Express is a premier course provider in the UK, trusted by over 1,000,000 students and 10,000 business partners worldwide. Established by a dedicated team of experts, we specialise in delivering accredited certification and training designed to enhance organisational performance across various sectors and industries. Our comprehensive courses focus on promoting high standards of food hygiene, business wellbeing, and workplace safety.