Safe Management of Medicines for Social Care Staff

The safe management of medicines for social care staff e-learning modules are aimed at the non-registered medicines workforce, focusing on the knowledge and skills necessary to handle and administer medicines safely in domiciliary and residential settings. It also explains some of the differences between handling medicines in residential care homes compared with nursing care homes. The materials are based on the requirements of the CQC and NICE.

At the end the course learners will be able to:

• Describe their roles and responsibilities in relation to managing medicines (including training, legislation, policies, record keeping and medicines safety)
• Describe the process for safely administering medicines via the common range of administration routes
• Describe the process for ordering, storing and disposing of medicines in different social care settings
• Describe safe processes for the general use of medicines in social care settings (including when required medicines, homely remedies and covert administration).