Sunderland Online CPD Courses

Introduction to Care & Volunteering

This course covers the essential elements of safeguarding, prevent, working as part of a team, role of the volunteer. Learners cover appropriate behaviours and attitudes for within the workplace.

Level 2 Food Safety

This online Food Safety content is designed to provide individuals that handle open food the essential knowledge and understanding of good Food Safety Practice. The aim of this training content is to provide candidates with a fundamental knowledge of food hygiene and to enable them to apply this knowledge to essential practical skills in order to prevent food poisoning.

First Aid in the Workplace

This online First Aid at Work content is suitable for people who are designated as an appointed person in the workplace. This online content will help meet the needs of those supporting a qualified First Aid at Work (FAW) practitioner. The content also fulfils the requirements for the FAW annual refresher.

The following conditions are covered:

• Unconscious (including seizure)

• Not breathing normally

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• Bleeding severely

• Suffering from shock

• Choking

• Suffering from a heart attack

Fire Warden

This online Fire Marshal (a.k.a Fire Warden) Training is designed for any members of staff looking to become a designated Fire Marshal, this online content will provide an insight into fire regulations and precautions and enable delegates to carry out the duties of a Fire Warden or Fire Marshal. This online content will help fulfil their obligations under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

Asperger Syndrome

This online content is designed to increase your understanding of Asperger's Syndrome. We look at the main characteristics and its place on The Autistic Spectrum and there are sections on Asperger's and supporting those with the syndrome.

Diabetes Awareness

This content has been designed to develop and support healthcare professionals who want to learn more about diabetes, and who may provide care for people with diabetes.

Health & Safety

Under the Health & Safety legislation employers are legally required to provide themselves and/or their employees adequate Health & Safety Training. Our Online Health & Safety Content will ensure that you and your employees will comply to Health and Safety legislation and raise the awareness needed to create a healthy, safe working environment.

Customer Service

This online Customer Service content will help users define who their customers are and how to understand their needs, the content will also help users to expand their knowledge on customer service techniques, how to deal with complaints and how to exceed customer expectations and go the extra mile to provide excellent customer service.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

Our online Safeguarding content is designed for any staff in who work with vulnerable adults and will raise awareness of the importance of Safeguarding people at risk. Staff completing this content will be in a better position to implement their company adult protection policy and the procedures they should follow. The course covers the following:

• Definition of Safeguarding

• Understanding what makes an adult at risk and open to abuse

• Different types of abuse

• Recognising the signs of abuse

• Symptoms relating to abuse

• Dealing effectively with abuse

• Legislation

• Reporting and record keeping

Stress Awareness

This course aims to improve learner’s understanding of stress. They will look at the causes of stress and the effects stress can have on health. They will also learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of stress and look at ways of preventing or reducing stress.

Helping Skills

This course aims to introduce learners to the use of helping skills in everyday life and work. It is designed for anyone who uses, or would like to use, helping skills at work or in a personal capacity. This may include learners who wish to progress towards further qualifications, or learners who wish to study this programme in order to complement other programmes (e.g. health and social care, children’s care, learning and development, voluntary and community work).

Managing Money

This course aims to identify the needs of learners in their ability to manage money from basic counting change in shops to progress to:

• Develop the learner’s awareness of financial products and services such as savings accounts and loans 

• Increase the learner’s knowledge of saving and borrowing money. 

• Make informed decisions when choosing financial products and services 

• Understand the risks to personal finances 

• Compare goods, products and services.

Nutrition & Health

This course is designed for learners looking to improve their understanding of nutrition and health. The course aims to: 

• Develop learner’s understanding of the importance of eating healthily and maintaining hydration 

• Develop learners' understanding of food choices and how to make healthy choices 

• Help learners plan a healthy diet for self and others 

• Increase understanding of eating disorders, the connections between food and feelings and ways to seek help and support.