How infections spread and how staff can reduce transmission through hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, safe personal care, environmental cleanliness, and early reporting of symptoms or risks.
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Online Infection Control Training for Care Staff
Online infection prevention and control training for care staff working in care homes, domiciliary care and supported living services.
Use this route when infection prevention and control is the training priority and you need a clearer way to assign, track, and evidence awareness training. Online learning can support IPC knowledge, while local policies, supervision, audits, and competency checks remain essential for safe practice.
Overview
Infection control training for care staff supports the knowledge needed to reduce transmission and respond safely to suspected or confirmed infection. This online Infection Prevention and Control course is for staff in care homes, domiciliary care, supported living and healthcare services. It covers hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, waste, sharps, outbreaks and respiratory infections, while local policies, supervision, audits and workplace competency checks remain essential.
Best for
Care homes and nursing homes assigning IPC awareness to new starters and existing staff
Domiciliary care and supported living providers standardising infection control refreshers across mobile teams
Registered managers, clinical leads, and IPC champions who need visible training evidence
Organisations reviewing certificates, renewal dates, and completion records for infection control training
Care assistants, senior carers, nurses, support workers, cleaners, domestic staff, and managers who need role-appropriate IPC awareness
What This Can Cover
PPE awareness, including when PPE may be needed, safe putting on and removal principles, disposal, storage, and why PPE should match the task, infection risk, and current guidance.
Cleaning, laundry, waste, sharps, spillages, care equipment, and environmental routines that help reduce avoidable infection risks in care homes, home care, supported living, and healthcare settings.
Responding to suspected or confirmed infection, including reporting, isolation or cohorting awareness, outbreak escalation, staff wellbeing, and following local Health Protection Team or organisational advice.
Role-specific IPC responsibilities for frontline care, senior carers, registered nurses, domestic teams, agency staff, visitors, and managers who oversee practice and evidence.
Manager evidence needs, including completion records, certificates, refresher dates, audit visibility, overdue learning, and a clearer way to show IPC training has been assigned and reviewed.
Why Teams Use This Route
A clearer induction and refresher route for staff working in care homes, home care, supported living, nursing, and healthcare services.
Better awareness of hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, waste, outbreak response, and day-to-day routines that reduce infection risks.
More visible completion records, certificates, and renewal dates for managers reviewing IPC training evidence.
A practical way to connect online IPC awareness with local policy, supervision, audits, outbreak learning, and competency checks.
Stronger consistency across teams so staff understand how infection control protects people receiving care, colleagues, visitors, and families.
Frequently asked questions
Who needs infection control training in care settings?
Providers should set training requirements according to each role and service. Infection prevention knowledge is relevant to care staff and may also be relevant to domestic, support and management roles.
Does online infection control training replace workplace competency checks?
No. Online learning supports knowledge. Employers must still use local policies, supervision, observation and competency assessment where these are needed for safe practice.
What infection control topics are covered?
The hub covers core awareness areas including how infections spread, hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, waste, sharps, respiratory infections and outbreak response.
Is infection control different in domiciliary care?
The core principles remain important, but providers also need local arrangements that account for staff moving between people's homes, equipment, travel and service-specific procedures.
Training by care setting
Next step
Compare learning options or plan a wider organisation rollout.
Start from the related catalogue items above, or move into organisation planning if the need spans a wider team.
