Workbooks
Independent Lives provides a wide range of helpful workbooks to help Personal Assistants and Carers.
Workbooks are designed for you work on at your own pace and will help you to improve your knowledge and learn new skills. Browse our current selection of workbooks below and purchase using our website.
Our PA workbooks are currently fully funded by Skills for Care. Details of the eligibility criteria can be found here.
To access the funded workbooks, please log in to your PA Pages account.
For more information or for help using our online shop please email training@independentlives.org or call us on 01903 219482 (option 3).
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Empowering choice: mental capacity essentials workbook
£20.00 Add to basketAs a Personal Assistant or Care Support Worker, you may be involved supporting people’s decision making in your role. This workbook ensures that you have the knowledge to treat individuals with dignity, respect, and compassion whilst supporting them to make their own decisions where they are able.
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Food hygiene workbook
£20.00 Add to basketAs a Personal Assistant or Care Support Worker, you may be involved in food hygiene in the course of your daily duties. This workbook will enable participants to prepare food safely and maintain correct food hygiene practices at home and at work.
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Health and safety workbook
£20.00 Add to basketThis workbook will enable you to understand your responsibilities and that of your employer as well as how to recognise hazards and increase your awareness surrounding health and safety.
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Infection control workbook
£20.00 Add to basketAs a Personal Assistant or Care Support Worker, you may be involved in infection control in the course of your daily duties. The focus of this workbook is on standard infection control precautions, specifically preventing the spread of infections in health and social care roles.
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Medication workbook (levels 1 & 2)
£20.00 Add to basketAs a Personal Assistant or Care Support Worker, it is important that you understand how to support a person with their medication management. This workbook will enable you to understand your responsibilities around medication administration and support.
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Medication workbook (levels 1 & 2) (West Sussex only)
£0.00 Add to basketAs a Personal Assistant or Care Support Worker, it is important that you understand how to support a person with their medication management. This workbook will enable you to understand your responsibilities around medication administration and support.
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Safeguarding workbook
£20.00 Add to basketWhether working with children, young people or adults, you have a duty of care to safeguard and protect those who may be at risk of abuse.This workbook will enable you to understand what safeguarding is as well as supporting you with your responsibilities on raising concerns when needed.
Care certificate workbooks
Independent Lives can provide a range of additional care certificate workbooks to help you and your staff improve your care skills and obtain the required knowledge to become safe and effective carers.
We currently have the following workbooks available:
- Care Certificate Workbook: For Personal Assistants
- Care Certificate Workbook: For residential staff
If you would like to order a one of our Care Certificate Workbooks then please get in touch with our training team at training@independentlives.org.
