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Grey Matter Learning | Social Care Courses Provider
Benjamin Franklin

FREE CQC Training Courses: Online eLearning
How to prepare for an Outstanding CQC Inspection

We want what you want – for every social care worker and social care provider to be assessed and rated Outstanding. Which is why we’ve created our FREE CQC online course: How to prepare for an Outstanding CQC Inspection

This highly recommended course covers the essentials for care providers and managers, including:

  • What to expect on the day of inspection
  • How to prepare your staff
  • Tips and advice from experienced managers
  • Checklists and toolkits
  • How to excel with the all-important Well Led key questions
  • Even how to appeal against an outcome

With the right learning plan and support in place, you can achieve an Outstanding CQC inspection. How can we be so confident? Our past success rates, from our online eLearning and face-to-face programmes, speak for themselves.

Outstanding success rates

By making our learning engaging, easy to understand and simple to use – participants can learn at their own pace, at a time that suits them – we’ve seen phenomenal results.

Some of our clients have seen their engagement go from woeful to incredible.

Staff attendance hit a record high of 95%

Outstanding success rates

We can also help you achieve that all important Outstanding in the fifth key question, “Is the service well led?”

99% of “good” or “outstanding” services had either “good” or “outstanding” in the fifth key question – “is the service well led?”

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Who can take advantage of this Free offer?

If you are registered with CQC whether as a manager or the setting where you work, you can benefit from our free course. This includes people working in hospitals and care facilities, private and publicly run care homes, home-care, supported living and adult social care providers, dentists and dental nurses, anyone who is registered with CQC England.

If you are not registered with CQC not inspected by CQC, you can still use the principles in this course to get ready for your internal inspections or a Local Authority inspection.

CQC is going Digital

In the new Transitional Regulatory Approach, CQC are clear that they will rely even more heavily on "Digital Records" in the future.  The days of traditional "crossing the threshold" face-to-face inspections are over.

This course is even more important now to get ready for the new digital record sharing required for inspections.

Fast, effective learning

Delivering great care is what you build your business on. This comes from great learning, knowledge and experience.

In less than an hour, typically, your team can refresh themselves on what’s required, build an action plan and start to measure it's impact. In short, you will feel more confident about the forthcoming CQC interview and assessment process.

They can do the course as many times as they feel necessary. No charge.

What’s covered in the Free CQC Training course

  1. CQC (Care Quality Commission) what it is and what does
  2. The different types of inspection and when they may occur
  3. Preparing for a CQC Inspector’s visit
  4. Key questions and key lines of enquiry
  5. Preparing evidence
  6. Preparing your team
  7. What to expect during an inspection
  8. How the CQC makes a judgement
  9. CQC ratings explained
  10. Your CQC Inspection Report and what it means
  11. Action Plans – what to do next
  12. Don’t agree with the findings? How to challenge the CQC’s findings
  13. What Outstanding looks like – the characteristics of an Outstanding care provider
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Here’s what others say about our course How to prepare for an Outstanding CQC Inspection 

"Great simplicity, and a really nice design"

National Charity

"Click is easy to use, even for a non-technical person like me!"

Care Agency, Berkshire

 I loved the common sense approach and the language that everyone can understand.  Clear, concise and thorough. Thank you.

Registered Manager

Start your FREE route to an Outstanding CQC Inspection

For more tips, guidance and advice, take a look at our Blog. There’s a wealth of support to help you go from Good to Outstanding.

Click to see more of our ongoing training and support, and how we’re delivering on our mission to Improve Lives Through Learning.

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