By job role
What training does your role actually need?
Nobody hands you a definitive list. Employers each keep their own training matrix, the frameworks overlap, and the marketing from training companies is designed to make everything sound compulsory. These pages are the honest version, role by role: what is genuinely expected, how often each subject is refreshed, and which parts cannot be signed off by any website including this one.
13 subjects
Healthcare assistants
Also called HCAs, nursing assistants, clinical support workers and auxiliary nurses.
See the training list
13 subjects
Support workers
Also called care assistants, care workers, domiciliary carers and supported living workers.
See the training list
8 subjects
Senior care workers
Also called senior carers, team leaders, shift leaders and lead care assistants.
See the training list
9 subjects
Registered managers
Also for deputy managers, service managers and anyone preparing for registration with CQC.
See the training list
9 subjects
Registered nurses
For nurses and nursing associates on the NMC register, in any setting.
See the training list
6 subjects
Internationally educated nurses
For nurses educated outside the UK preparing for the NMC test of competence, and for those newly registered.
See the training list
Three things worth knowing before you read any training list
Almost no refresher interval is set by law. Annual moving and handling, three yearly safeguarding: these are sector conventions carried in employer training matrices, not statute. The interval that counts for you is the one in your own employer's matrix, and if it differs from what a training company tells you, your employer's version is the one an inspector reads.
Knowledge and competence are different things. Knowledge can be taught online and taught well. Competence in a physical skill, hoisting a person, compressions on a manikin, taking blood, has to be observed by someone qualified watching you do it in your workplace. Any provider selling you a certificate of competence for those subjects online is selling something that will not survive scrutiny.
A folder of certificates is not evidence of a trained workforce. What inspectors actually examine is whether the training changed practice: supervision records, incident learning, whether staff can talk about it. That is why every course here is written as a conversation rather than a slideshow, and why the whole recording script is published openly.