E-learning courses for essential core skills

Skills for Health is an established expert in e-learning for the health sector. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of services that includes e-learning strategy and development services as well as a wide range of courses specific to the health sector.

For learners the courses offer a straightforward and flexible training package that can be accessed anywhere, anytime. Learners are also supported by a dedicated learner support helpline available from 9-5 Monday to Friday.

Learners will:

• Develop skills and knowledge that can be transferred across the Health and Social Care Sectors
• Require less retraining as they move between organisations
• Be able to engage with the subject areas at their own convenience
• Generate a certificate of completion which will provide evidence of underpinning knowledge which can be added to an NVQ portfolio.

Our range of e-learning courses will help you minimise your organisations training costs for mandatory and essential core skills, and maintain a safe, competent workforce. Our integrated e-learning programmes allows managers and learning & development leads to track what training is taking place, monitor the progress of learners and evaluate the impact of the training.

Benefits for the organisation include:

• Reduce your overall training costs, with flexible modules that can fit around staff work commitments
• Quality-assured and used throughout the health sector
• Minimises retraining as staff move between jobs or organisations
• Enables organisations to gather evidence for regulatory bodies
• Designed and developed by health and social care experts
• Many of the courses are aimed initially at new starters in Health and Social Care, possibly as part of their induction. They can also be used for annual updates and refresher training.

Skills for Health can also assist your organisation in various ways to make sure that you get the best out of its e-learning courses. Some areas where we can offer support and advice include:

• We will support with you to develop your organisational e-learning strategy
• We are able to develop additional courses to meet your requirements
• Share best practice in e-learning from across the UK.