Pre Entry Digital Skills: Digital skills for the care sector

The "Digital Skills for the Care Industry" course is a comprehensive program designed to enhance the digital proficiency of care professionals, or to help individuals step into the care sector, ensuring they can effectively utilize essential digital tools in their daily roles. This is a 12-hour face to face program in Chesterfield.

The course provides a foundational introduction, focusing on creating and formatting Word documents. Participants engage in hands-on activities, such as drafting and formatting a fictional end-of-day report, a critical skill in care settings for documenting and communicating information.

The full 12-hour course builds upon this foundation, offering four sessions that cover Word, Outlook, and Excel. Participants refine their skills in Word, learning how to create and save documents relevant to their roles. The next session introduces Outlook, where learners practice replying to service user queries and formatting these communications appropriately. The final session focuses on Excel, teaching participants to log, format, and filter essential data, such as food and drink logs for service users, and share the results with managers and stakeholders.

Each session is designed to be highly practical, with a clear focus on real-world applications in the care industry. By the end of the course, participants will have developed the digital skills necessary to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness in managing documentation, communication, and data within