Certificate in Personal Care

Kim Martin
Safeguarding and mental health trainer

Course

1 hour

Rated 5 stars

(248)

6 modules

Developed by Kim Martin, an early years consultant and an Ofsted regulated and advisory inspector, this course will provide you with the knowledge and awareness of developing personal care in children.
CPD Certified
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Within the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework, personal care is defined as including ‘helping a child for reasons of age, illness or disability, with eating or drinking, or in connection with toileting, washing, bathing and dressing’, encompassing intimate and non-intimate personal care. With good practice and robust safeguarding structures in place, providing personal care can be a time for early years practitioners to promote development, safety and emotional resilience. 

Developed by Kim Martin, an early years consultant and an Ofsted regulated and advisory inspector, this CPD-accredited course will provide you with the knowledge and awareness of developing personal care in children and young people.

Please note: This course provides AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages including English, Welsh, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian and Chinese. To select a language, start the video and click the Closed Captioning (CC) button. 

When planning and allocating your time, please consider that this training course consists of learning through video, task completion and further reading/research. To successfully understand and achieve the objectives of the course, learners are expected to engage in all aspects of the learning process and complete all relevant activities to ensure they can successfully apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in their own school or setting.

Policies

Designed in line with the following policies:

Important note for non-UK learners: Although this course reflects best practice principles and might be useful for learners outside the UK, please note that it is based solely on UK guidance and legislation. Please make sure you also adhere to relevant legislation applicable in your own country.

Introduction

Module 1: Personal care and the legal framework

This module will explore what personal care is and the legal framework that governs providing personal care to a high standard within a nursery.

Module 2: Safeguarding aspects of providing personal care

In this module you will learn about how to provide safe personal care, considering the effective safeguarding practices for providing personal care to babies and children.

Module 3: Nurturing children’s wellbeing

This module will explore how intimate care can provide an opportunity to nurture and positively impact children’s emotional wellbeing when they are in your care.

Module 4: Providing personal care for children with SEND

In this module, you will learn about best practice in relation to providing personal care to meet the needs of children with SEND.

Module 5: Best practice for providing personal care

This module will offer insight into providing high-quality care consistently within your nursery and how to embed best practice.

Outcome 1:

Defining what personal care is, taking into consideration the legal framework in relation to a nursery

Outcome 2:

Appreciating the safeguarding aspects of providing personal care and what this means in practice

Outcome 3:

Knowing how to nurture children's wellbeing and being able to develop their self-esteem and confidence

Outcome 4:

Understanding how to appropriately and effectively provide personal care for children with SEND

Outcome 5:

Understanding the best practice approaches to providing personal care within a nursery

Kim Martin

Kim Martin’s consultancy work spans more than 15 years of leadership, inspecting, auditing, coaching and training. She is qualified to provide certified training and is experienced in creating bespoke CPD training and workshops. Kim places safeguarding and mental health and wellbeing at the forefront of every leadership mandate.

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