Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disability

Description

Welcome to the Halo Staffing eLearning course for Standard 9 – Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disability of the Care Certificate. In this course we’ll go through everything you’ll need to know in order to be able to help people with issues involving mental health, dementia, or learning difficulties.

The first section will cover identifying the feelings that someone may have if they have a mental health condition, dementia, or a learning disability, how those conditions may influence their needs, and how the causes and support needs may differ between people.

Following that will be covering how a positive attitude towards people improves the care they receive, and the social model of disability.

The third section will be on adjustments someone may need to their care, and concerns from unmet needs, with regards to these mental conditions.

After that, the importance of early detection of mental health needs will be covered, along with what adjustments to care may need to be made when a mental health need is identified.

From there, the main legislation regarding promoting the rights of individuals with mental health needs, and how that legislation affects the day-to-day actions they may take will be covered.

Finally, mental capacity will be covered, including what it is, why the default is assuming someone has it, what consent is, and when you may need to make an assessment of mental capacity.

You can view the introduction video for the Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia, and Learning Disability course below.

 

Is this for me? 

This course has been carefully designed for carers, support workers, nurses and managers who want to learn more about Standard 9 of the Care Certificate – Awareness of Mental Health, Dementia and Learning Disability. Completing this course will ensure that you are fully up to date with relevant content to provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary to excel in your field. On successful completion of this course, you will be issued with a certificate and digital badge valid for 1 year.

Why should I take this course? 

You should take this course if it’s necessary for you or your team to keep and protect people from harm and abuse and if it’s important for you to help people with issues involving mental health, dementia or learning difficulties. Keeping in line with Skills for Care and the key legislation such as the Human Rights Act 1998, Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, General Data Protection Regulation 2018, Safeguarding Adults National Framework and the Fundamental Standards of Quality and Safety.

What will I learn? 

This course will provide you and/or your team with an understanding of how a mental condition can change the needs of an individual, how to explain the importance of promoting positive mental health and wellbeing, what the three adjustments that you may need to make to personalise care delivery are, how to recognise the three early warning signs of mental health condition, dementia or learning disabilities and what the relevant legislation is. You will also what mental capacity is and how it relates to the topic. 

Course Duration: 1 to 2 hours.