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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Infection Control Training for Care Settings in England
Online infection control training for care homes, home care, supported living, and healthcare teams in England, covering IPC routines, PPE, hand hygiene, cleaning, outbreaks, and evidence.
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.
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Overview
Infection prevention and control training helps care staff understand how infections spread, how everyday practice reduces transmission, and how to respond when someone has suspected or confirmed infection. This route is for care homes, domiciliary care providers, supported living services, nursing services, and healthcare teams that need online IPC awareness for induction, refresher training, certificates, and manager reporting. It supports knowledge around hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, waste, laundry, sharps, outbreak awareness, respiratory infection precautions, and safer routines for people receiving care, staff, visitors, and families.
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.
Related Courses
These are the closest published courses we could match from the current catalogue for this role, topic, or care-sector use case.
Published course
Infection Prevention and Control
This course provides a comprehensive overview of infection prevention and control principles for staff working in health and social care settings in England.
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Published course
Food Hygiene
This CPD-level course gives health and social care staff in England a detailed understanding of food hygiene law, safe food handling, contamination risks, allergen safety, temperature control, cleaning standards and practical responsibilities in care settings.
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Published course
Moving and Handling
This CPD-level course provides health and social care staff with a practical, legally grounded understanding of safe moving and handling in adult care settings in England.
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Published course
Oral Care – Best Practices
This course provides health and social care staff with a CPD-level understanding of oral care, oral health assessment, daily mouth care, denture care, dry mouth management, escalation of concerns and person-centred support in adult care settings.
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