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Food Hygiene, Nutrition and Hydration in Social Care

When providing and serving food and drink to individuals in the social care setting, it’s crucial that all food safety requirements are met to ensure the safety of the consumers. Discover how to meet safety requirements when preparing, serving, and clearing away food and drink and explore the principles of hydration and nutrition to be able to support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their plan of care.

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Course Fee: £20

You Will Learn

  • Be able to apply food safety measure when providing food and drink for individuals
  • Be able to maintain hygiene when handling food and drink
  • Be able to meet safety requirements when preparing and serving food and drink for individuals
  • Be able to meet safety requirements when clearing away food and drink
  • Be able to store food and drinks safely
  • Be able to state the principles of hydration and nutrition
  • Be able to support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their plan of care
  • Know how to safely access additional advice or support about food safely

Course Overview

When preparing food, feeding, and providing refreshments, it is important to ensure food safety requirements are met, and nutrition and hydration has been considered (and potentially monitored) to meet the needs and provide safety to people in your care.

Learn how to promote a safe and hygienic working environment when preparing, serving and clearing away food and drink, meeting all safety requirements whilst being able to support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their plan of care.

This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge to be able to promote nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings.

Learning Outcomes for this course include:

  • Be able to apply food safety measure when providing food and drink for individuals
  • Be able to maintain hygiene when handling food and drink
  • Be able to meet safety requirements when preparing and serving food and drink for individuals
  • Be able to meet safety requirements when clearing away food and drink
  • Be able to store food and drinks safely
  • Be able to state the principles of hydration and nutrition
  • Be able to support individuals to have access to food and nutrition in accordance with their plan of care
  • Know how to safely access additional advice or support about food safely

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Certification

At the beginning of each module learners will be asked to answer a “knowledge check” question. Answering the question correctly will allow learners the opportunity to skip this section. However, if they wish to complete it anyway, they are still able to.

On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate.

Duration

30 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.

Target Audience

This training is designed for care workers and support workers wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role as well as for anyone working in a Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Who is it for?

  • Care workers in residential/domiciliary settings, or support workers, wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role.
  • For anyone working in a Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training

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