Blood-Borne Viruses Awareness training that gets your team CQC-ready
- CQC-aligned, mapped to the Care Certificate framework
- Completed in the hub in over 60 languages
- A certificate for every staff member, for your CQC evidence
- A wrong answer triggers a follow-up lesson, so gaps are closed
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What Are Blood-Borne Viruses and How Do They Spread
Blood-borne viruses are infections carried in blood that can pass from one person to another. The three we focus on are HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.
They spread mainly through blood to blood contact, such as sharing injecting equipment, and some can spread through sexual contact or from mother to baby. They do NOT spread through everyday contact like shaking hands, sharing cups, hugging or using the same toilet.
Understanding this helps us work safely and without fear or judgement.
Which blood-borne virus is now curable with a short course of tablets?
In the hub, a wrong answer sends the staff member a short follow-up lesson and a fresh question on the same point. They close the gap before they can finish the module, and every attempt is recorded for your CQC evidence.
That is how the training works. Give your whole team the full Blood-Borne Viruses Awareness module.
Avg. Duration
About 35 minutes
Certificate
For every staff member
Available Languages (60+)
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A clear, practical grounding in blood-borne viruses awareness.
This training gives you the knowledge and confidence to protect yourself from blood-borne viruses and to support the health of people using your service. You will learn how HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are transmitted, how to work safely using standard precautions, and how your service prevents, tests for and treats these infections as part of our harm reduction work.
By the end, your staff will be able to:
- Identify the three main blood-borne viruses and explain how they are and are not transmitted
- Apply standard precautions consistently when there is any risk of contact with blood or body fluids
- Describe the correct immediate response to a needlestick injury or blood splash exposure
- Explain how your service offers testing, vaccination and treatment to reduce blood-borne virus transmission
- Recognise your role in reducing stigma and supporting people to access blood-borne virus care
A closer look at the blood-borne viruses awareness module.
The module is built in short, practical sections. Each one teaches a part of the topic, then applies it to a real care scenario and checks understanding before moving on.
What Are Blood-Borne Viruses and How Do They Spread
Blood-borne viruses are infections carried in blood that can pass from one person to another. The three we focus on are HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. They spread mainly through blood to blood contact, such as sharing injecting equipment, and some can spread through sexual contact or from mother to baby. They do NOT spread through everyday contact like shaking hands, sharing cups, hugging or using the same toilet. Understanding this helps us work safely and without fear or judgement.
Standard Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment
Standard precautions mean treating all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious, every time, regardless of who the person is. This protects you and avoids making assumptions. Always wear gloves when you might touch blood, body fluids or used injecting equipment. Wear an apron if there is a risk of splashing onto your clothes. Wash your hands thoroughly after removing gloves. These simple steps are your main defence and must become automatic in your daily work.
Safe Handling and Disposal of Needles and Sharps
Never recap a needle. Never reach into bags, bins or pockets where there might be sharps. Always dispose of needles and other sharps immediately into the correct rigid sharps container. Do not overfill sharps bins; close and replace them when they reach the fill line. When collecting used equipment during outreach or home visits, stay alert and ask the person to show you where sharps are before you move anything. These rules prevent the majority of needlestick injuries.
What to Do After a Needlestick Injury or Blood Splash
If you get a needlestick injury, immediately encourage the wound to bleed by squeezing it gently under running water. Wash thoroughly with soap and water. Do not suck the wound. If blood splashes into your eyes or mouth, rinse immediately with plenty of water. Report the incident straight away to your manager or the on-call person. You must get to occupational health or the emergency department urgently because post exposure prophylaxis for HIV works best if started within one hour and must be started within 72 hours. Do not delay because you feel embarrassed or think it will be fine.
Hepatitis B Vaccination and Occupational Health
All staff who may be exposed to blood or used injecting equipment should be offered Hepatitis B vaccination by the service. This is your right and your protection. The vaccine is given as a course of three injections and is very effective. If you have not had it or are not sure, speak to your manager or occupational health. You should also know your own vaccination status and whether you need boosters. Protecting yourself means you can work confidently and safely for the long term.
Testing, Treatment and Harm Reduction in your service
your service offers blood-borne virus testing as a routine part of assessment and care, using methods like dried blood spot tests and point of care testing that give quick results. We offer Hepatitis B vaccination to service users as well as staff. Hepatitis C is now curable with a short course of tablets, and we support people through testing, treatment and follow up to confirm the virus has cleared. We provide clean needles, syringes and injecting equipment to reduce transmission. All of this is part of harm reduction and public health. Your role is to talk openly and without judgement, to normalise testing and vaccination, and to encourage and support people to access treatment.
The things your team must remember.
- HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C spread through blood to blood contact, not through everyday social contact or care work
- Always use standard precautions: treat all blood as potentially infectious and wear gloves and aprons when there is any risk of contact
- Never recap needles, never reach into bags or bins blindly, and dispose of sharps immediately into the correct container
- If you get a needlestick injury or blood splash, wash immediately, report straight away and seek urgent medical assessment for possible post exposure prophylaxis
- All staff at risk should have Hepatitis B vaccination; speak to your manager or occupational health if you are unsure of your status
- your service prevents, tests for and treats blood-borne viruses as core harm reduction work; your role is to talk openly, reduce stigma and support people to access testing, vaccination and treatment
Not a slideshow once a year. Training that sticks.
CareStream delivers blood-borne viruses awareness training in the hub your team already uses, grounded in best practice and your own policies, so it fits your care setting and not a generic template.
Short teaching sections and a real care scenario, then an assessment that checks understanding.
Staff complete it in over 60 languages, while your records stay in English.
A wrong answer triggers a short follow-up lesson and a fresh question, so the gap is closed.
Automatic reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days, with a live compliance dashboard.
From your dashboard to your team, in the CareStream hub.
Training is delivered in the hub each staff member logs into. You allocate the modules, they complete them in their own language, and you get the completion records and certificates for your CQC evidence, with any gaps closed by automatic follow up training.
Assign Blood-Borne Viruses Awareness to each staff member in seconds. No course builder and no setup for each person.
Staff work through the module on any device, in over 60 languages, teaching then checking understanding. A wrong answer sends a short follow up lesson.
See live completion status and a certificate for every person, ready as evidence for CQC.
Any step, in their language, in one tap.
Care teams are diverse and training should not leave anyone behind. On any lesson or question, a staff member taps the language button and the whole step flips into the language they think in. They understand it properly, and your records stay in English.
- One tap flips any lesson or question into their language, instantly.
- Over 60 languages, with no setup and no separate versions to manage.
- Completions and certificates stay in English for your CQC evidence.
Try the language buttons in the preview above.
Built for real learning, not box ticking
Every CareStream course goes further than a lesson and a quiz. These features come as standard on every course, giving your staff a richer way to learn and giving you the evidence to prove it.
Every course is built on recognised UK guidance and cites its sources, from NICE and Skills for Care to the NHS and the legislation itself.
A plain English glossary of the technical terms in each course. A simple way to support every learner, including staff with English as a second language.
A quick knowledge check before the lesson is compared with the final assessment, so every certificate comes with evidence of how much the course actually taught.
After passing, staff record what they will do differently in their day to day work. Their reflection is saved to their training record and shown with their certificate.
A printable one page takeaway of the outcomes, key points and key terms. Perfect for staff files, supervision conversations and the staff room wall.
A printable checklist for managers to confirm skills in practice, with a sign off section. It completes the picture beyond the knowledge assessment.
Wrong answers become lessons, not failures
Most e learning marks an answer wrong and moves on. CareStream does not. Every wrong answer triggers an automatic follow up loop that teaches the point again and rechecks it, so no knowledge gap is left behind.
A wrong answer immediately opens a short lesson explaining the point, so the gap is closed there and then.
A fresh question on the same point checks the lesson has landed. The loop repeats until it has.
Staff move on to the next module and their certificate once they genuinely know the answer, not just after one lucky guess.
Why choose CareStream?
Training built for the care sector, delivered the way busy teams actually learn.
- 90+ care-specific training courses
- Bitesize, engaging lessons your staff actually finish
- Mapped to the Care Certificate & CQC standards
- Available in 60+ languages
- Instant certificate on completion
- Flexible learning, anytime, on any device
- Content kept up to date with UK care regulations
- Time to complete: ~35 min
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Compared
Three ways to train a care team.
These modules are written and kept current by us, so your managers do not have to write or maintain them. We have compared what each approach does rather than naming providers, because products change and this should still be true next year.
| CareStream | A generic e-learning library | A trainer you book | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Try a real lesson and a real question before you buy | |||
| Learning outcomes and time to complete stated up front | |||
| Written lesson sections, each with its own illustration | |||
| Interactive exercises after the lesson that teaches them, in every module | |||
| Assessment in every module, with the key points to revisit | |||
| Taken in any of sixty plus languages | |||
| A wrong answer triggers a follow-up lesson, not just a re-sit | |||
| Practical sign-off by a manager where the subject needs it | |||
| Completion files itself into your training matrix and evidence pack | |||
| Bought one module at a time, with no annual contract |
Generic libraries are often cheaper per learner. They teach a national standard rather than being built, updated and evidenced around the way a CQC-registered service is actually inspected.
Care policies
Every module is written from a policy
If the policy behind it is out of date, the training inherits that. Sixty six policies written for your service, checked against current law and read by a person before they carry your name, from £39.
