Safeguarding is everyone’s business

Opus Pharmacy Services are a Skills for Care endorsed and CPD accredited provider that offer online medicines training delivered through pharmacist-led sessions, e-learning courses and self-study distance learning workbooks. The organisation has a full page of courses recommended specifically for care homes, which you can browse by clicking here. 

Our Combined Safeguarding Lead Level 4 training course is carried out over two days. We can provide this training either face-to-face or online in an engaging virtual classroom.

Our trainers have extensive practical knowledge in safeguarding and our course is trusted by some of the largest healthcare organisations in the UK.

Our Dignity and Safeguarding Level 2 course aims to provide you with a thorough understanding of the importance of dignity and safeguarding, and is valuable to those working in, or looking to work in, the health and social care sector.

This is a short free course for social care managers with advice on how to create a Safeguarding Culture in your care organisation. Adapted from guidance available from National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).

Safeguarding adults in care settings means protecting their right to live in safety and acting to prevent abuse and neglect. Working together to achieve this is everyone’s responsibility

This practical one-day course teaches staff how to administer medicines in a systematic way to reduce the risk of errors. We assess staff competence at selecting the correct medicines using simulated medicines rounds. Staff must reach a certain standard by the last simulated medicines round to gain a certificate. For those who fail, we offer a follow-on online assessment for them to gain their certificate.

OPUS have developed a wide selection of free downloadable resources to assist care organisations in meeting their regulatory and legislative requirements. 

Training for medicine administration in care homes is crucial for resident safety, compliance with regulations, and mitigating risks associated with medication errors. This newsletter highlights courses and resources that aim to help you enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and overall quality of medicine administration in your service.

The main focus of this area of inspection is the risk assessment process and how you involve the people you support in deciding what’s appropriate, ensuring you and your staff teams help and document this. This focus also includes your ability to review risks and support longer-term improvement, as well as the safety of the equipment and your staff’s ability to use it.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) requires care providers to have a formal system to assess staff competence to administer medication. This course provides the knowledge and skills to enable care providers to create and manage a formal system to assess staff competence in administering medication.

This in-person course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

This course will help you to develop and implement a medicines policy and associated audits, as well provide a general update on any new local/national legislation and guidance.

This in-person course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

This course is aimed at senior staff who are responsible for assessing medication competencies with support workers.

This online training course will provide you with the essential procedures and techniques you need to know, as well as the key legislation relevant to medication. It also outlines your responsibility in relation to your role along with different types of medication and their uses.

This qualification aims to help learners develop:

• A general understanding of different types of medication and their use
• Knowledge of the procedures for obtaining, storing, administering and disposing of medication
• An understanding of legislation and the audit process related to medication and issues of responsibility and accountability
• An understanding of the record-keeping process for medication

The course is offered by a range of providers with both online and in-person options available.

The Safe Management of Medicines for Social Care Staff elearning modules are aimed at the non-registered medicines workforce, focusing on the knowledge and skills necessary to handle and administer medicines safely in domiciliary and residential settings. It also explains some of the differences between handling medicines in residential care homes compared with nursing care homes. The materials are based on the requirements of the CQC and NICE.

As an adult social care employer, it’s important to understand your responsibilities around safeguarding and the standards you need to follow. Our Guide to adult safeguarding explains some of the key aspects of safeguarding in your workplace.

To live a life free from abuse and harm is a basic human right. We are all responsible for the protection of people at risk from abuse. This section contains eLearning resources to support safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and young people.

Health Education England (HEE) has worked with subject matter experts to develop a set of high quality, national resources on Safeguarding for Levels 1-4.

Safeguarding adults means protecting a person’s right to live in safely, free from abuse and neglect. As an adult social care employer, it’s important to understand your responsibilities around safeguarding and the standards you need to follow. In this module, you’ll start to explore some of the underpinning knowledge you’ll need to embed best practice in safeguarding and mental capacity.

This online safeguarding training course has been written by an experienced Head of Safeguarding who has held strategic positions leading in safeguarding and safeguarding boards at various local authorities. The training course is aimed at people with responsibility for providing managerial support and direction to staff in an organisation or decision making about concerns raised by members of staff and/or members of the public.

Core safeguarding learning resources