Safe Handling of Medication
Essential Training for Healthcare Workers - CQC Compliant
✅ Why Choose This Course?
-
This comprehensive training is designed for healthcare professionals seeking to enhance their skills in the safe handling of medication. Delivered on-site at your workplace, the course ensures minimal disruption to your team's schedule.
-
Key Benefits:
-
Meets Care Quality Commission (CQC) training expectations
-
Delivered by qualified, experienced trainers
-
Hands-on practice with medication administration techniques
-
Small class sizes for personalized instruction
-
Certification: Reliable Training certificate issued on successful completion. Annual refresher training is recommended in line with organisational policy and competency requirements.
📚 What You Will Learn (Curriculum)
-
Understanding Medications: Types, classifications, and uses of medications.
-
Key Legislation and Guidelines: The Medicines Act 1968, Human Medicines Regulations 2012, and NICE guidelines.
-
Medication Administration Best Practices: The 7 Rights of medication administration and various routes of drug administration.
-
Medication Processes: Ordering, receiving, storing, and transferring medications within care settings.
-
Medication Errors: Recognizing, preventing, and reporting medication errors.
-
Roles and Responsibilities: Differentiating levels of support in medication handling and understanding professional boundaries.
-
Person-Centred Approaches: Supporting patient autonomy, managing covert medications, and addressing individual needs.
👥 Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for anyone working in the health and social care sector who handles or administers medication, including:
-
Care assistants
-
Support workers
-
Healthcare assistants
-
Domiciliary (home care) workers
-
Social care staff
-
Nursing home staff
-
Team leaders or supervisors in care settings
-
Agency carers and healthcare staff
Looking to develop your own Medication Trainers?
Medication Administration Train the Trainer
1 day | Up to 12 existing qualified trainers | £1,000
Designed for individuals who already hold an appropriate teaching/training qualification and want to develop the subject knowledge, practical competence and assessment skills required to support medication training internally.
Optional Organisational Trainer Resource Pack: £250
FAQs
Do I need previous medication experience?
No. This is designed for beginners as well as those with some medication administration experience.
How long is the certificate valid?
A Reliable Training certificate is issued on successful completion. We recommend annual refresher training alongside regular workplace competency assessments, subject to your organisation's policies and requirements.
What should I bring?
Bring photo identification, comfortable clothing, pen & paper.
What if I can’t attend / need to cancel?
Our cancellation policy: here, or contact us for re-scheduling.
Emergency First Aid at Work
Very informative professional but friendly with it. Will be booking further courses in the very near future.
Paediatric First Aid
She was really a good trainer who clarified all things nicely
Medication Administration
exellelent trainer and i enjoy her class. for me it`s 10/10