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Care Certificate
The compulsory induction standard for new UK care staff — all 15 standards delivered as a blended cohort.
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Word-perfect voice narration, MCQ assessment, and a verifiable certificate at the end. No card needed to begin.
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CPD ~1 hour
Certificate on 80% pass
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Fire Safety Awareness — coming soon
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Awarding body centre for Health & Social Care
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How our lessons work
Three real screens from the Skilled Academy platform.
No stock photos — these are the actual UI you'll use as a learner, rendered from the same design system that powers the course player, the assessment runner, and the verification page.
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Understanding your role in health & social care
Your role is defined by the Care Certificate standards, CQC expectations, and your employer's policies.
1 · Learn
Read along with word-perfect narration.
Every syllable a tutor speaks lights up on screen. Study on the bus, on break, or between shifts.
Question 3 of 5Attempt 1
Which CQC regulation covers the Duty of Candour?
- ARegulation 9 — Person-centred care
- BRegulation 17 — Good governance
- CRegulation 20 — Duty of candour
- DRegulation 18 — Staffing
Pass mark 80%Auto-graded
2 · Prove it
Assessments that check for real understanding.
Multiple choice, paginated, per-attempt shuffle. Auto-graded at 80% to pass.
Certificate of completion Verified
Awarded to
Jamie Osborne
For completing
Understanding Your Role in Health & Social Care
Certificate ID
SA-C-0X72FA
3 · Certify
Certificate anyone can verify.
Shareable link. Employers and CQC inspectors can confirm authenticity in one click.
Why Skilled Academy
Four things you can lean on.
Every card below maps to a real feature already shipped — no roadmap promises, no aspirational chrome.
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Word-Perfect Voice Narration
Every lesson is narrated with word-level alignment — the exact syllable being spoken lights up on screen. Read along, or just listen.
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VTCT-Approved Foundation
Our free foundation course is designed to VTCT Skills standards and aligned with Care Certificate Standard 1 and CQC Regulations 17 and 18.
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Certificates You Can Verify
Auto-graded assessments issue a certificate the moment you pass. Every certificate carries a shareable public verification link.
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Study Around Your Shifts
Self-paced, mobile-friendly, resume-where-you-left-off. Progress is tracked slide-by-slide so a 5-minute break moves you forward.
Who this is for
Care workers and the teams they work in.
Skilled Academy is designed for two audiences — the individual worker upskilling around shifts, and the provider enrolling a whole team for CQC-ready evidence.
Individual care workers
Certificate your role, on your schedule.
Care assistants, support workers, healthcare assistants, and anyone new to the sector — start free, work through at your own pace, walk away with a verifiable certificate.
- Free foundation course, no card needed to start
- Word-perfect narration — study on break or between shifts
- Certificate the moment you pass, shareable link
For care providers
Evidence CQC-ready training across your team.
Care homes, domiciliary agencies, and supported-living services — enrol your whole team, track progress against Care Certificate standards, and hand inspectors a verification link per certificate.
- Enrol your care team in a single email
- Every learner tracked against the Care Certificate standard
- Certificate verification links you can hand to CQC inspectors
Programmes we run
Eight training programmes Skilled Academy delivers today.
Most run as in-person or blended cohorts across the UK. Get in touch to check dates or arrange a group. The one badged Standard 1 · Available online can be started right now, free.
SIA Courses
Security Industry Authority licensing pathways — Door Supervision, CCTV, and Close Protection.
Care Certification
Sector-specific certification for care roles — routed through recognised awarding bodies.
Phlebotomy Training
Blood-draw technique for healthcare assistants and clinical support workers — hands-on cohort delivery.
Functional Skills
English and Maths qualifications to Level 2 — meets apprenticeship entry and progression requirements.
PMVA / Ligature
Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression, plus ligature response training for care settings.
Funded Degrees
Higher-education degree pathways with funding support — from foundation year through to bachelor level.
NVQ Qualifications
Nationally recognised NVQ pathways at various levels — for career-changers and progression seekers.
Not sure which programme fits your team? Talk to us.
Live course
Start with the free foundation course.
Everything below is pulled from what's actually published on the platform today. When we launch more, they'll appear here.
Free · Enrolment open
Foundation · VTCT-alignedUnderstanding Your Role in Health & Social Care
A one-hour, self-paced primer covering your duties, boundaries, and accountability under Care Certificate Standard 1 — with word-perfect narration, an MCQ assessment, and a shareable certificate on completion.
Course code · SA-PPTX-001
- Slides
- 51
- CPD hours
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
- Certificate
- Included
Regulatory alignment
- Care Certificate Standard 1 — Understand your role
- CQC Regulation 17 — Good governance
- CQC Regulation 18 — Staffing
In the pipeline
Courses being built next.
Real drafts on the platform and pipeline slots the client can fill. Nothing here is inflated.
DraftingSA-018
Fire Safety Awareness
Prevention, detection and response to fire in care settings. Annual refresher training, CQC-aligned.
Regulation 12 · Safe care & treatment
Course coming soon
Client-supplied · course to be confirmed
Course coming soon
Client-supplied · course to be confirmed
How we prove quality
Three signals that hold up under scrutiny.
Standing behind training that goes to CQC inspections means every quality claim has to survive a follow-up question. Here are the three that do.
Regulated by
Approved VTCT Skills centre.
Skilled Academy is a VTCT Skills Awarding Body Centre, UKPRN 10098431. Every course is designed to VTCT standards and reviewed against Care Certificate criteria.
How our accreditation works →Graded by
Auto-marked assessments at 80% pass.
Every quiz is multiple choice with a fixed 80% pass mark, per-attempt question shuffle, and results returned instantly. No grade appeals, no ambiguity — the same rules for every learner.
See a sample question →Verifiable by
Public certificate verification.
Every certificate carries a shareable link. Employers and inspectors confirm authenticity in one click — no email round-trip, no PDF fingerprinting.
Try the verifier →From our learners
Reviews land here as our first cohorts finish.
Real quotes from real learners — we're keeping this slot honest. Nothing fabricated goes here.
Awaiting real learner reviews
Our first cohorts are working through the free foundation course now. When they finish and consent to share their experience, their words will appear here — with names, roles and locations they've agreed to publish. Nothing invented; nothing borrowed.
Client-supplied · placeholder until first cohort completes
Academy photo
A real photograph of the Skilled Academy space lands here when the client provides one.
Client-supplied · placeholder
Inside the platform
How a lesson actually feels.
Every course on Skilled Academy runs on the same lesson engine — narrated slides, mixed-format explainers, and a paginated MCQ assessment at the end. Auto-graded, no waiting on a marker.
- Narrated lessons with word-level highlight sync
- Bulleted, table, and split-image slide layouts
- Paginated MCQ assessment · per-attempt shuffle
- Auto-graded at 80% pass · unlimited retakes
- Progress tracked slide-by-slide · resume anywhere
FAQ
Common questions.
- Who is the free foundation course for?
- Care assistants, support workers, healthcare assistants, and anyone new to the UK health and social care sector. It's designed to Care Certificate Standard 1 — the compulsory induction standard for new care staff.
- Are your qualifications recognised by employers and CQC?
- Yes. Skilled Academy is an approved VTCT Skills Awarding Body Centre (UKPRN 10098431). Our foundation course aligns with Care Certificate criteria and Care Quality Commission expectations for Regulation 17 (good governance) and Regulation 18 (staffing).
- How does the assessment work?
- Every course finishes with a 5-question multiple-choice assessment, paginated one question at a time with a per-attempt shuffle. The pass mark is 80% and results are graded instantly. If you don't pass first time, you can retake.
- How is my certificate verified?
- Every certificate ships with a public verification link at skilled-academy.co.uk/verify-certificate. Anyone — employer, CQC inspector, colleague — can enter your certificate ID and confirm it's authentic in one click.
- Can my organisation enrol a team?
- Yes — email info@skilled-academy.co.uk to enrol a whole care team. We'll set up an admin view so you can track every learner's progress against Care Certificate standards and hand inspectors a per-certificate verification link.
- What courses are coming next?
- Fire Safety Awareness is drafting now (Regulation 12, safe care and treatment). Additional courses will land as they're finished — we deliberately don't advertise a course until it's fully authored, narrated, and assessed.
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