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Mouth Care Advice for Care at Home Services
This Open Badge is awarded to professionals who work or volunteer in Care at Home Services and look after client’s mouth care. It contributes to 6 hours of learning.
NHS Education for Scotland’s vision is to lead through sustainable educational solutions and working collaboratively with key partners to reduce inequalities and improve oral health for priority groups.
This Open Badge is awarded to professionals who work or volunteer in Care at Home Services and look after client’s mouth care. It contributes to 6 hours of learning. The content of the badge has been recognised as important information for the essential mouth care by Caring for Smiles guide to care homes and the Care Inspectorate.
To earn this badge, you will need to:
• View the Mouth care in the Care At Home Education Pack
• Review the associated links to further reading (Check out table 4 as stipulated in the PPE guidance)
• Tell us about this topic (50 words minimum)
• Tell us about three things you learned and why each of these is important to
(a) you and
(b) people who are clients you work or volunteer to help care for at home.
(150 words minimum)
• Tell us how you will use what you learned in your day to day work to develop and improve your practice as a care at home worker caring for clients mouths (125 words minimum)
• Tell us what you did to share what you learned with others (25 words minimum).
This badge is open to anyone regardless of whether you are registered with the Scottish Social Services Council.
Read the detailed explanation of what we expect to see within your evidence submission.
While there are no prerequisites for this Open Badge, we strongly recommend that your first apply for the ‘Getting Started’ and ‘Writing Evidence’ Open Badges
Never include confidential or private information within your evidence. The evidence you submit will be assessed and presented to everyone who you show your badge to. As well as showing that you have achieved the badge, you can also choose to share this assessment and feedback with your manager or team leader.
Badge issuer
NHS Education for Scotland Oral Health Improvement Team
We develop educational material to support Oral Health Improvement in priority groups.
Submit your application
I confirm that I have read, understood and completed all the activities listed in the badge criteria and that each question from the criteria is answered in the evidence I have provided. My evidence has been written or recorded by me and I have not copied it from anywhere or anyone else. I understand that it will take 28 days for you to assess my application and that feedback cannot be provided if my application is unsuccessful.