An accredited online competency assessment to reliably assess the competence of staff in Children’s Services & Residential Schools.
Medicines Awareness Foundation Course for Schools
The accredited course you need to enable staff to administer medicines within your school or whilst out on schools trips.
About This Course
For face-to-face training options, please contact us on 0333 939 0053 or email [email protected]
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- Course Information
- Accreditation
- Pricing
Course Information
The ‘Supporting Pupils’ guidance advises that ‘all school staff should have sufficient training’ in medicines handling. Our accredited Medicines Awareness for Schools course can train your staff to feel confident administering medicines and help reduce medication errors in your school. The accredited course you need to enable staff to administer medicines within your school or whilst out on schools trips.
Course Content:
- Storage
- Administration
- Recording
- Disposal
- Covert administration
- Self-administration
- Non-prescribed medicines
- The importance of dose timings
- How to use eye drops, patches, inhalers, creams etc.
- Understanding dosage instructions
- Basic hygiene when administering medicines
- Principles of a medicines policy
- Specialist tasks
- How to reduce medicines errors
- Reporting refusals, side effects and errors
- Expiry dates
- Legal issues
This course is:
- Accredited by CPD
- Developed and presented by qualified Pharmacist trainers
- Compliant with Ofsted requirements
- Evidenced by a certificate of successful completion
Pricing
Virtual Learning
£525 + VAT for up to 16 delegates
Face to Face Training
£595 + VAT for up to 16 delegates
Travel costs may apply
E-Learning
£38.50 + VAT per licence
We offer the following discounted prices:
- £33.50 + VAT per licence for orders of 10 or more of the same licence.
- £30 + VAT per licence for orders of 100 or more of the same licence.
Please get in touch to find out about further discounts for larger orders.
FAQs
How long do the courses take?
Most of our face to face courses are half day (3-hour) sessions with a qualified Pharmacist trainer at your venue. Some supplementary courses, such as buccal midazolam & epilepsy or Epipen & adrenaline auto-injector administration, are 2-hour sessions.
Our Foundation e-learning courses take between 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. Competency Assessments and Refresher courses take approximately 1 hour and Bite-size courses take approximately 30 minutes.
Our distance learning workbooks can be completed in your own time and at your own pace.
Are OPUS courses accredited?
Yes! All of our courses and services are accredited by CPD, and we are a Skills for Care Endorsed Training Provider.
Where do courses take place?
E-learning courses are completed online and can be used on any internet-enabled device, including Macs, PCs and iPads.
Distance Learning Workbooks are posted promptly to an address of your choosing. Larger order can be couriered to you or sent recorded delivery.
How many people can attend a Face to Face course?
Our face to face courses are for small groups of up to 16 learners.
Manager’s courses are undertaken in smaller groups of up to 10 delegates.
When do I get my certificate?
For our face to face courses, the trainer will mark your assessments and all successful delegates will receive their certificate via email following the training, usually within 7 days.
With distance learning, simply pop your completed assessment in the post or scan it in and email it to us for marking and your certificate will be emailed to you for you to print off and keep.
How long does my certificate last for?
For most courses, certificates have a recommended refresher of 2 years.
Skills for Care guidance recommends that training be updated at least annually and OPUS offers online competency assessments which can be used a year after your training for this purpose and refresher courses which can be completed when your certificate expires.