Certificate in Caregiving of the Elderly & Disability

• Soft skills (i.e. holistic care, emotional support, medication management & communication skill with care recipients)
• Hard (Technical) skills (i.e. transferring skills, diaper changing & pressure ulcer care to older persons etc.)
• Accidents & Emergencies Responding skills (i.e. responding skill to fall incidents, choking incidents, provide correct intervention of   abnormal blood pressure or blood sugar level, perform CPR and use of an AED appropriately)

Assisting participants to overcome all challenge in care-giving duties, to maintain & standardize the training quality is very important.   All modules will be conducted and assessed by professional trainers and assessors who have vast experienced in clinical, healthcare, first aid training & life - saving technique training, such as:

• Nursing Staff (with 5 years clinical, training & education or related working experiences or above)
• Physiotherapist (with 5 years clinical working experience or above)
• Standard or Occupational First Aid Instructor (Appointed by Accredited Training Provider currently and with 5 years training experience or above)
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and CPR + Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Training Program Chief Instructor or Instructor (Accredited by National Resuscitation Council and with 5 years training experience or above)
  
  Note:  Meanwhile, some trainers/assessors have completed ACTA training and with Full Certification qualification.

• Any caregiver (i.e. local family members, relatives or helpers) who has to take care to a dependent at home
  (Note: Priority will be given to Singaporean / Permanent Residence participant)
• Professional bodies of homecare service providers
• Those, such as volunteers, who are interested to ready caregiving skills for providing community in future

• Physically Fit (Note: Pregnant ladies are not allowed for this training)
• Able to read, speak and understand simple English; or with completion of secondary 2 or WPLN Level 4

• English

• This training is 24 hours programme with 5 essential modules. Module 1 is 8 Hours and Module 2, 3, 4 & 5 will be 4 hours in each module
• Each module includes classroom (theory), practice (simulation) and assessment (oral questions or written test + practical performance or return demonstration)

• A Certificate of Attendance will be given to participants with minimum 90% attendance in each module
• A Statement of Attainment (SOA) will be given to participants (attending assessment criteria is to achieve 90% attendance) who have completed the individual module assessment & with a "competent" result.
• A Certificate of Achievement in Care-giving of the Older Person (Home Environment) will be awarded to participants who have completed those FIVE essential modules with "competent" result in each module. 

• The participant is Free to attend all related care-giving support workshop (i.e. Stress Management) which is organized by Singapore Caregiver Training Centre or co-organize with other professional party.
• The participant will be invited to attend Refresher Training Course (8 Hours) to recap the skill and knowledge after 18 months of completing the full training programme.  This Refresher Training Course is FREE to attend (payment is S$40 for the course material only)
  
  Note: Refresher Training Course is NOT a mandatory training programme for participants but will be benefit to participants to polish, share or enhance their skill & knowledge

• Classroom: 19 hours (Theory, activities & practice) + Assessment: 5 hours

Important to know:

• Each participant will be allowed 3 attempts (assessments) to achieve the assessment criteria for each individual module within a month after the course
• Eventually if the participant is unable to achieve the assessment criteria after 3 attempts, the Statement of Achievement will not be given to the participant.