Course overview
Why do I need this course?
- Comply with legal obligations around people’s rights
- Protect your staff and business from unwanted behaviours
- Align with the Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF)
- Align with the Care Certificate Standards
- Raise awareness of equality, diversity and human rights
- Foster an inclusive workplace attitude
What will I learn?
- Proactive, inclusive approaches to EDHR
- Benefits of an effective approach to EDHR
- How to treat everyone with dignity, courtesy and respect, and value people as individuals
- Definitions of bias, stereotypes and microaggressions
- Impact of discrimination
- Which behaviours are inappropriate
- How to raise concerns and challenge discrimination
- Legislation, organisational policies and processes
Who is this course for?
- All healthcare professionals (as part of statutory training requirements)
- All healthcare staff who have contact with patients and service users
- Anyone who has contact with the general public
- Anyone who cares about inclusivity and human rights
Part of the CSTF
The Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) is a framework created by Skills for Health and sets out minimum learning outcomes, frequency of refresher training and links to relevant legislation or expert guidance.
It can be used by any healthcare employer in the UK including NHS, independent and voluntary providers.
All our CSTF-aligned courses can be purchased as part of a bundle here.
Learn more about the CSTF on our website, or read the Frequently Asked Questions.
Part of the Care Certificate
The Skills for Health Care Certificate bundle provides a set of high-quality eLearning courses aligned to the Care Certificate standards. The bundle is designed to complement work-based assessment of skills by a competent assessor, and forms the core e-learning component of the certificate
All courses aligned to the Care Certificate standards can be purchased as part of a bundle here.
Course details
This CSTF-aligned course introduces equality, diversity, and human rights. It explores these terms and the benefits of valuing equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and in healthcare. It also introduces the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Right Act 1998.
Learners will not only study the various types of discrimination, inappropriate behaviours and bias, they will also learn how to challenge discrimination, promote inclusion, and understand the responsibilities we have to uphold equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights.
Upon completion of this course, the learners will:
- Understand the terms of Equality and Diversity and Human Rights and how they are applied within the context of the health sector.
- Understand how a proactive inclusive approach to equality and diversity and human rights can be promoted.
- Understand the purpose and benefits of monitoring equalities and health inequalities.
- Understand the benefits that an effective approach to equality and diversity and human rights can have on society, organisations and individuals.
- Understand how legislation, organisational policies and processes can empower individuals to act appropriately and understand people’s rights.
- Know how to treat everyone with dignity, courtesy and respect and value people as individuals.
- Know what to do if there are concerns about equality and diversity practices, including how to use any local whistle blowing policy procedures and other related policies such as Bullying at Work and Dignity at Work.
- Understand what bias is, and how it can manifest itself as stereotypes and microaggressions.
This course meets the learning outcomes for Equality, Diversity and Humans Rights of the Core Skills Training Framework and standard 4 of the Care Certificate Standard.
Subject 1: Equality, Diversity and Human Rights, Core Skills Training Framework
The learner will:
- understand the terms of Equality and Diversity and Human Rights and how they are applied within the context of the health sector
- understand how a proactive inclusive approach to equality and diversity and human rights can be promoted
- understand the purpose and benefits of monitoring equalities and health inequalities
- understand the benefits that an effective approach to equality and diversity and human rights can have on society, organisations and individuals
- understand how legislation, organisational policies and processes can empower individuals to act appropriately and understand people’s rights
- know how to treat everyone with dignity, courtesy and respect and value people as individuals
- know what to do if there are concerns about equality and diversity practices, including how to use any local whistle blowing policy procedures and other related policies such as Bullying at Work and Dignity at Work
Standard 4: Equality and Diversity, Care Certificate
The learner will:
- Understand the importance of equality and inclusion
- Work in an inclusive way
- Access information, advice and support about diversity, equality and inclusion
- Course Length: 80 mins
