Care Certificate, Standard 5 of 15
Work in a person centred way
What person centred care means in law and in daily practice, using life history and what matters to the person, care plans as living documents, supporting identity and self esteem, and minimising environmental distress.
Why this standard matters in practice
Task centred care gets everything done and misses the person entirely. This standard is the difference between washing someone and supporting someone to wash: same task, opposite experience.
How it is assessed
The knowledge in this standard is assessed by a knowledge check, which you can take here as part of the Care Certificate course. Attempts are unlimited and marking happens on our servers, so the answers are never sent to the browser.
Your employer's assessor must also observe you applying it in practice before this standard is complete. That is how the Care Certificate is designed, and it is the reason a purely online Care Certificate does not exist however it is advertised.
Questions about Standard 5
What does person centred actually mean in practice?
The person's own preferences, history and goals drive how support is given, not the routine of the service. Concretely: they are asked, their answers change what happens, and the care plan records what matters to them in their own words rather than in service language.