Professional body qualification
Care Certificate
Not a licence. Healthcare assistants work towards it as part of their training, and providers registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) should use its standards to assess the competence of new healthcare assistants.
- Awarding body
- Your employer (standards developed by Skills for Care, Skills for Health and Health Education England)
- Level
- Induction standards for new healthcare support staff (not a qualification level)
- Where it applies
- England
- Exams
- Assessed at work by your employer, not by an exam
- Entry
- You complete it at work, usually during induction in a new healthcare support role
- Also required
- Employers registered with the CQC should follow the Care Certificate standards to assess competence
- Outside this area
- England.
Assessment and registration fees
- Completed as part of your job; no fee to you was found on official pages.