Virtual College

  • This essential Health and Safety course is designed to give people who might work with or around asbestos all the knowledge they need to do so safely. It considers the risks, highlights the dangers and identifies key signs to look out for. This asbestos awareness course provides advanced knowledge about asbestos awareness for people working with and around asbestos. There is an overview of what asbestos is, the history of asbestos use, the risks of exposure to asbestos, and the key legislation around the topic.
  • Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH). This comprehensive set of regulations requires employers to limit and control exposure to hazardous substances. Thousands of people working in industries ranging from cleaning to agriculture fall ill every year as a result of working with hazardous substances. This can include contracting types of cancer, skin diseases such as dermatitis, or lung diseases including asthma. Our COSHH training online course is designed to give you the practical skills to work safely with any potentially harmful materials in your workplace. COSHH compliance is essential for businesses and employees need to know exactly what kind of substances they are working with and how to do it safely. That vital knowledge is exactly what you’ll learn in this course.
  • Our Risk Assessment in the workplace course teaches workers in a supervisory position how to carry out a risk assessment properly. Our CPD-approved risk assessment course teaches supervisors and managers the practical skills needed to identify hazards, evaluate risks and implement the necessary control measures. You'll learn to conduct thorough assessments tailored to your specific workplace environment, whether you manage an office, retail space, warehouse, classroom, or construction site.
  • As a healthcare professional, you have a responsibility to safeguard children.​ Building upon your foundational knowledge, this course will take you deeper into the complexities of safeguarding children within healthcare. You'll explore advanced topics, such as recognising potential signs of abuse, advocating effectively for children, and understanding specific risks like FGM, grooming, and radicalisation. The content aims to advance your skills in making child protection referrals and documenting concerns, including the procedures for sharing information with relevant parties. By the end, you'll be equipped with the expertise to navigate complex child protection scenarios confidently.
  • Our Safeguarding Adults Level 2 course involves enhancing your safeguarding expertise, pushing your skills to the next stage of proficiency. Learn to provide effective advocacy, particularly in complex situations like mental capacity issues. Develop an understanding of your professional responsibilities within multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings and know when and how to refer concerns to social care. Enhance your documentation skills and grasp key statutory and non-statutory guidance to prepare yourself for more complex safeguarding scenarios.
  • Anyone working in the healthcare environment or has any safeguarding responsibilities should have an understanding of sexual health and how to promote good sexual health and behaviour. This online training course will give learners the knowledge they need to give safe and correct advice for any sexual health concerns. The Sexual Health course covers a wide range of topics including sexual behaviours, infections and diseases, preventative measures, and available treatments.
  • This training will look at how to balance addressing the issue of self-neglect with an individual’s right to private life and health and how to make safe decisions. Self-neglect is a problem in itself and can often be a symptom of other underlying problems. This course will enable you to identify it and react appropriately.
  • Being able to identify and understand self-harm and its causes is crucial for anyone who works with vulnerable children, young people or adults. This training will help learners to understand what to do if they suspect someone is potentially self-harming. Being able to identify and understand self-harm and its causes is crucial for anyone who works with vulnerable children, young people or adults. This training will help learners to understand what to do if they suspect someone is potentially self-harming.
  • This course will help learners to get a better insight into how situations can develop and how to effectively respond. This Safer Working Practices course has been updated to be compliant with new Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 legislation and how this applies in the workplace or when working with children and young people.
  • Greater awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is one of the most effective ways to reduce cases. This course is designed to do just that, whilst ensuring learners gain knowledge on practical and effective ways to reduce the risks This course, Safer Sleeping for Babies, gives up-to-date information on how to make sleeping safer for babies and gives advice on lowering the chance of SUDC (Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood).
  • Safer recruitment is designed to help those who are responsible for hiring anyone who works with children, to identify and deter or reject individuals who are deemed to be at risk of abusing children. It’s crucial that all employers have a recruitment policy in place that takes into account safer recruitment best practices and considerations. This course covers key topics including: advertising, application forms, selecting candidates for interview based on the information they have presented, and post-interview checks before making an offer of employment.
  • Anyone who works with children or vulnerable adults understands that safeguarding is an important part of their role. The leadership roles and responsibilities cover many different topics and safeguarding areas, so up-to-date and in-depth knowledge is vital. Our course is split into two modules – Core, and Further Learning - each with over 20 components. The Core module covers topics such as serious case reviews, duty of candour, how to support your team and how the disclosure responsibilities. Whereas the Further Learning module explores specific safeguarding topics ranging from e-safety to child sexual exploitation and abuse relating to faith and belief.
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