This course delivers a detailed understanding of equality and diversity and helps learners apply that knowledge in the healthcare environment. This course is for healthcare professionals with a remit for greater knowledge of the key protected characteristics and/ or promoting awareness of these standards. Learners should also complete the Equality & Diversity General Awareness course.
This course takes a close look at fundamental issues at the heart of equality and diversity. Each of the nine modules focuses on one of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act (2010), to recognise how various types of discrimination come about (and how to counter them) and apply that knowledge in the healthcare environment
Skills for Health have now developed a Primary care version of this course with learning scenarios and assessments adapted to the needs of GPs and other primary care organisations. If you wish to order the primary care version, please request this in the order notes.
All healthcare staff who require greater awareness of equality & diversity standards and promotion of the surrounding issues in the workplace.
The session is followed by an assessment with a pass mark of 80%. Progress can be tracked by managers for internal audits and learners can keep a certificate of completion for CPD. This course meets the relevant standards for the Core Skills Training Framework.
The course was initially developed by the e-learning development team in Liverpool Community Health Trust. The material in the course has since been revised by Skills For Health, for national use, with the with the support of subject experts
3 hours 20 mins approx
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