Introduction to Food Hygiene and Safety in Healthcare

Care Certificate
Level: Foundation
Study time: 1 hour

Complete the theory for standard 8 of the Care Certificate with our online course

Mandatory Training

Our course meets the requirements for mandatory training in health and social care and follows Food Standards Agency standards. This course also includes food allergy awareness training and covers the theory for standard 8 of the Care Certificate.

Modules: 4
Exams: 4

Who is this course for?

Course Modules

Learning Outcomes

Assessment

Accreditations

Technical Requirements

Certification

Who Is This Course For?

Anyone needing basic food safety training for their place of work.

If you are a chef, or regularly involved in food preparation, our Level 2 Food Safety for Residential and Nursing Homes, or Level 3 Food Safety course might be better suited to you.

Course Modules

Legislation

Infection Control

Fluids and Nutrition

Allergy Awareness

Learning Outcomes

Understand the legislation which governs food hygiene and safety

Understand the principles of food hygiene and safety

Understand the principles of nutrition and hydration

Understand how to support individuals to have access to fluids and nutrition in care

Understand how to implement infection control procedures regarding food hygiene and safety

Understand what a food allergy is and the top food allergens

Assessment

You must gain a minimum of 75% in the end of module assessments in order to gain your certificate for this course. You can attempt the assessments as many times as you would like.

Technical Requirements

Please make sure you are familiar with our technical requirements before commencing a course:

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Device: Although our courses work on any device connected to the internet, we recommend a desktop or laptop for optimal learning experience.

Internet: You need to have an internet connection to access any of our online training courses.

PDF Reader: Some of our courses come with PDFs and Word documents for download. You need to ensure that you have a PDF reader and word processor on your device to access these documents if you would like to download them.

Each of our courses comes with a certificate which you can use to demonstrate your knowledge to the world.

Some of our courses have assessments attached to them and you must achieve a certain mark to pass the assessment and gain your certificate.

The certificates are printable, and will be saved in your Care Academy profile where they will remain for as long as you keep your Care Academy account. For further information about downloading your certificate after you have exited a course, visit our Virtual Help Desk.