APEX CARE | Staff Training and Support

Caring is a vocation that is of paramount importance, staff need to be trained to the highest possible standards and across many areas.

We have put together a portfolio of courses, which we review on an ongoing basis, to take the burden off the employer and provide the carer with a sound knowledge base.

See below a brief overview of our courses and the subject matter of each: -

Manual Handling

Course includes: -

  • Law & legislation relating to manual handling
  • Anatomy/physiology of the human spine
  • Risk assessment
  • Banned lifts
  • Safe manual handling procedures

Personal Care

Course includes: -

  • Dressing & undressing
  • Bathing/shaving/oral hygiene
  • Continence
  • Eating & meal preparation
  • Medication
  • Handling personal possessions & documents
  • Manual handling
  • Entering & leaving home

Basic Emergency Aid

Course includes: -

  • CPR
  • Shock
  • Epilepsy
  • Faints
  • Fractures
  • Wounds & bleeding
  • Burns & scalds
  • Choking
  • Poisons

Food Hygiene

Course includes: -

  • What is food poisoning?
  • Food poisoning bacteria
  • Prevention of food poisoning
  • Food storage
  • Food handler
  • Food pests
  • Cleaning & disinfect ion

Health/Safety

This 4-hour course includes: -

  • Health & safety law/legislation
  • Risk assessment
  • Health safety hazards in your workplace

Protection of Vulnerable Adults

This 2-hour course includes: -

  • What is meant by ‘Vulnerable Adult’
  • Who may abuse
  • Forms of abuse
  • Recognising abuse
  • Reporting & recording procedure
  • What happens next?

Other specialist courses are available including: -

Diabetes
Stroke
Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinsons Disease
Dementia/ Alzheimers