Courses
Assessing Staff Competence to Administer Medicines
This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and materials to assess staff competence to administer medicines.
- Live webinar with our trainer
- Opportunity to ask questions
- No need to travel to the training
- Dates throughout the year
£250.00
- Private session just for your team
- We can deliver this via webinar on in person at your venue
- Price on application (depending on the format you choose)
Course overview
Course last audited august 2025
This course provides the skills, knowledge, and the materials to assess staff competence to administer medicines.
You will practice assessing people administering various dosage forms, using direct observation against a set of structured competence assessment checklists.
Format:
- An online Foundation Course to learn how to administer medicines systematically
- Two 2-hour webinars to practice assessing using our competence checklists
- A final online video-based module to assess your assessment skills.
Learners must complete this last module within 4 months. Refer to our assessors FAQs for more details.
2025 Dates (10am – 12pm)
9th and 16th October 2025 – SOLD OUT
22nd and 29th October 2025 – SOLD OUT
6th and 13th November 2025
20th and 27th November 2025
3rd and 10th December 2025
7th and 14th January 2026
21st and 28th January 2026
3rd and 10th February 2026
18th and 25th February 2026
Aimed at
Care staff and nurses who assess staff competence to administer medication.
Pre-Learning
We include an online foundation module within this course, which you need to study first. If you have already passed this foundation course (either online or in-person) the last 6 months, then let us know, and you can skip this pre-learning. Visit our Assessors FAQ page (click here) for more details.
Course content
- Describe the legal/best practice requirements for assessing staff competence
- Tailor the direct observation checklist to your own organisation
- Observe someone administering the following dosage forms and state if they are competent or not:
- Solid oral medicines (tablets, capsules etc.) from original packs
- Solid oral medicines (tablets, capsules etc.) from monitored dosage (blister) packs – optional additional content if needed
- Oral liquids
- Topical medicines (creams, ointments etc.)
- Inhalers
- Eye drops
Accreditation
This course is accredited by CPD Assessed.
Certification
Mapping
- The Care Certificate
- CQC Quality Statements: QS 1, 7 and 8
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Care Homes, March 2014
- NICE – Management of Medicines in Community Settings, March 2017
- Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) 2014
Cost
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Upcoming course dates
With this virtual version of the course:
This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and materials to assess staff competence to administer medicines.
Please select your course date from the options.