Course details
| Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | Target group |
|---|
| 5 March 2026 |
1:30pm to 4:30pm (1:15pm arrival for tea/coffee and registration) |
Coed Pella |
Tim Dallinger - Social Care Consultants |
Targeted Services – Business & Transformation, Community & Wellbeing, Disability Team, Commissioned Services, Older People & HSW, Quality Standards, Vulnerable People Team
Target Group - All staff working in a social care setting in the county of Conwy |
| 29 April 2026 |
1:30pm to 4:30pm (1:15pm arrival for tea/coffee and registration) |
| 5 October 2026 |
1:30pm to 4:30pm (1:15pm arrival for tea/coffee and registration) |
Course aims and objectives
This is a short, 3 hour, classroom-based educational session addressing the basic principles of infection prevention and control, covering the following:
- The importance of IPC in different types of social care services
- Legislation - UK and Wales
- Good practice standards
- Pathogenic micro-organisms
- Chain of infection
- Methods of transmission
- Standard infection control procedures
- Risk assessment
- Hand hygiene
- Waste and sharps
- PPE
- The care environment
- Care equipment
- Monitoring of exposure
- Linen and laundry
- Respiratory hygiene
- Dealing with spillages of bodily fluids
- Managing outbreaks
- Obtaining specimens
- Leadership and governance
- Knowledge assessment
For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.