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Online Training for Domiciliary Care Staff
Online domiciliary care training courses for home care staff, covering induction, refreshers, certificates and manager oversight.
Use this route when training needs to fit a mobile home care workforce rather than a single shared premises. Online learning can support knowledge-based induction and refreshers, while shadowing, supervision, spot checks, practical skills, and local competence checks remain essential.
Featured course
Medication Administration and Controlled Drugs Awareness in Adult Social Care – CPD Course
This course provides a detailed awareness-level overview of safe medication administration and controlled drugs management in adult social care.
1.2h20 topics100% quiz pass mark
Overview
Online training for domiciliary care staff should fit a mobile workforce delivering care across different homes, risks and visit schedules. This route supports home care providers with knowledge-based induction and refreshers for carers, support workers, senior carers, coordinators and managers. It covers the realities of lone working, travel between visits, medication support, infection control, safeguarding, record keeping and escalation, while local supervision and competency checks remain essential.
Best for
Domiciliary care agencies onboarding new carers, support workers, and personal care staff
Home care providers assigning mandatory refreshers across mobile and dispersed teams
Registered managers, care coordinators, and field supervisors tracking certificates and renewal dates
Organisations preparing evidence for audits, supervision, spot checks, contract monitoring, and CQC-focused records
Care teams that need consistent training across full-time, part-time, bank, and agency workers
What This Can Cover
Core domiciliary care mandatory training topics such as safeguarding, infection prevention and control, fire safety awareness, health and safety, moving and handling awareness, information governance, mental capacity, and medication awareness where relevant.
Home-care-specific risks, including lone working, travel between visits, entering people's homes, changing environments, late or missed visits, escalation, record keeping, and communication with coordinators or supervisors.
Infection prevention and control between visits, including hand hygiene, PPE awareness, cleaning routines, waste, respiratory infection precautions, and reducing avoidable cross-contamination between households.
Moving and handling, medicines support, nutrition and hydration, falls risk, pressure area awareness, and other practical duties where online learning should be supported by supervision and competency checks.
Manager evidence needs, including course assignments, certificates, completion dates, renewal tracking, overdue learning visibility, and clearer reporting across a distributed care workforce.
Why Teams Use This Route
A stronger induction and refresher route for staff delivering care in people's own homes.
More relevant training coverage because courses are framed around home care risks, lone working, and mobile workforce realities.
Better visibility of certificates, completion dates, renewal needs, and overdue learning for registered managers and coordinators.
Cleaner evidence for supervision, spot checks, audits, contract monitoring, and CQC-focused training records.
A practical way to combine online knowledge-based learning with shadowing, local policies, field supervision, observation, and competence checks.
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Mental Capacity Act 2005 - CPD Course
This course provides a CPD-level overview of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its practical application in adult health and social care.
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Moving and Handling People in Health and Social Care – CPD Course
This awareness-level CPD course provides health and social care staff with a practical and legally grounded understanding of safer moving and handling in adult care settings in England.
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Infection Prevention and Control Awareness – CPD Course
This CPD awareness course provides an introductory and practical overview of infection prevention and control principles for staff working in health and social care settings in England.
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Health and Safety Awareness in Health and Social Care - CPD Course
This CPD course provides an awareness-level introduction to health and safety in adult health and social care settings in England.
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