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Complaints Handling Training Course

Online Training Course


Ad Vitam Learning

Summary

Price
£34.99 inc VAT
Study method
Online
Duration
1 hour · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification
CPD
2 CPD hours / points

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Overview

Welcome to Ad Vitam Learning's complaints handling training course. This complaints handling e-learning course was developed to meet the required learning outcomes in the Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and various other regulatory bodies.

CPD

2 CPD hours / points
Accredited by The CPD Standards Office

Description

Course aims and objectives

  • To provide the learner with a clear understanding of the legislation regarding complaints handling
  • To provide essential online learning resources in an engaging and meaningful way
  • To provide a FREE blended learning environment that is available to all individuals and businesses
  • Be able to know and explain the main models for complaints handling

What is covered in this online course?

  • An introduction to the key principles of complaints handling
  • Why it is important to handle complaints effectively
  • Defining a complaint
  • Understanding why people complain
  • Identifying a complaint as a gift
  • Why it is important to understand customer needs when they complain
  • Steps for handling customer complaints
  • Understanding customer characteristics
  • How to handle patient/service user complaints
  • Key steps to handling complaints successfully
  • Why it is important to understand what your customers/service users really think
  • Strategies for service recovery (following a complaint)
  • Some important statistics relating to healthcare and social care complaints
  • How to handle difficult customers
  • How to handle patient/service user feedback
  • What happens if the complainant is unhappy?
  • How to make a complaint (NHS services)
  • How to complain about adult social care services

Assessment and certification

At the end of this complaint handling course, learners will be required to complete an online assessment. On successful completion of the knowledge test (80% pass mark), learners will be able to download a FREE CPD certificate that is valid for one year.

Course accreditation

The content of this complaints handling training course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines..

Course duration

It will take approximately 45 to 90 minutes to complete this e-learning course. The length of time to complete the course depends on the following:

  • your prior knowledge and experience about complaints handling and customer service
  • how quickly you can study and absorb the learning materials
  • how much you can pace yourself once started

You are in full control of how long it takes to complete the course. You can go through the course in one sitting, or pause and come back later. Your progress will be recorded throughout and you will be able to start where you previously left off.

You can revise the online learning materials as many times as you like. Even after completing the course successfully (and obtaining your CPD) certificate, you will still have access to your learning materials for 365 days.

Who is this course for?

Ad Vitam Learning’s complaints handling eLearning course should be completed by all healthcare and social care staff. This includes unpaid and voluntary staff working in NHS and private hospitals, locum doctors, locum allied health professionals, agency nurses and healthcare assistants. This online complaints handling course is also relevant for health and social care support workers, including charities, nursing homes and residential home staff.

This complaints handling course can be taken as a standalone CPD course or as part of online complaints handling training package or the wider online candidate mandatory training courses.

This online complaints handling course covers the main points relating to complaints handling in health and social care environments. It has additional online learning resources that provide more details for learners to refer to during the course and in practice.

Requirements

Access to a PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone and access to the internet

Career path

  • 2 points/credits towards continual professional development (CPD)

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FAQs

Study method describes the format in which the course will be delivered. At Reed Courses, courses are delivered in a number of ways, including online courses, where the course content can be accessed online remotely, and classroom courses, where courses are delivered in person at a classroom venue.

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. If you work in certain professions or for certain companies, your employer may require you to complete a number of CPD hours or points, per year. You can find a range of CPD courses on Reed Courses, many of which can be completed online.

A regulated qualification is delivered by a learning institution which is regulated by a government body. In England, the government body which regulates courses is Ofqual. Ofqual regulated qualifications sit on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), which can help students understand how different qualifications in different fields compare to each other. The framework also helps students to understand what qualifications they need to progress towards a higher learning goal, such as a university degree or equivalent higher education award.

An endorsed course is a skills based course which has been checked over and approved by an independent awarding body. Endorsed courses are not regulated so do not result in a qualification - however, the student can usually purchase a certificate showing the awarding body's logo if they wish. Certain awarding bodies - such as Quality Licence Scheme and TQUK - have developed endorsement schemes as a way to help students select the best skills based courses for them.