Knowledge Oral Health Care are Dental Care Professionals that deliver oral care training to your workplace The training has been developed by experienced dental care professionals that have an interest in gerodontology.
The training sessions will raise awareness of the importance of daily mouth care as well as practical advice for those people that are dependent or need assistance in oral care techniques. It will provide carers with the knowledge and ability to plan and deliver daily mouth care within care homes and domiciliary care. It will equip your care home with the tools for being CQC compliant in oral care as well as carers being more confident in delivering oral care.
Included in the sessions is oral care and dementia (challenging behaviour), palliative/end of life oral care. will provide carers with the knowledge and ability to plan and deliver daily mouth care within care homes and domiciliary care.
We provide In-house training sessions (2hrs) and Train the Trainer courses. All training is aligned to the NICE guidelines and quality standard so you can be confident that your care home receives the training required to satisfy the quality standard measures. To ensure you are fully ‘CQC ready’ Knowledge Oral Health Care can assist with and provide template policies and clinical governance; demonstrating evidence of accurate record keeping and audits.
Providing good oral care for residents can be challenging; time constraints, increased workloads, uncooperative residents and carers lacking knowledge and skills can result in inadequate oral care. In order to safeguard the health and wellbeing of those people that are dependent on others, good daily oral care is crucial. In palliative and end-of-life care it becomes particularly important to ensure the person’s mouth is clean and comfortable.
" I have know Jane for a few years now, she is friendly, professional and patient with our residents at West Hall. I also had training with her which was really informative and interesting. First class training from a really lovely lady."
"The training was excellent and we will be advertising in house the role for oral care champion and using your service again in the future to help train them up."