Understanding Your Role (Care)

Understanding Your Role (Care) covers your duties, your rights and where your role sits in the wider team around the people you support.

Care Certificate Standard 1, Understand your role
Understanding Your Role (Care) training: a team of care staff putting their hands together in a circle

Understanding Your Role (Care) in brief: Understanding Your Role (Care) is an online course from ProCompliance covering what a health and social care worker is responsible for. The Globe LMS delivers it. It runs at each learner's own pace, so they can pause and resume it, and it issues a certificate on completion.

Why this training matters

In this course, we will cover the fundamental steps relating to facilitating social care to ensure you possess the abilities to support adult seniors and social care to your fullest. The focus of this course is understanding your role as a health and social care specialist. We will cover your main duties, workplace rights and responsibilities, and, additionally, understand your role within greater partnerships that include health, social, and business collaborations.

Understanding Your Role (Care) meets Standard 1 of the Care Certificate. It covers the first steps in delivering social care and the abilities care workers need to support the people in their care. It suits anyone new to working where caring for the wellbeing of others is part of the role.

Understanding Your Role (Care) at a glance

CourseUnderstanding Your Role (Care)
CategoryCare Certificate
Governing frameworkCare Certificate Standard 1, Understand your role
PriceQuoted for your team: credits, this course on its own, or 12 months of access to all our courses. Request a quote
DeliveryOnline and self paced on any device, via The Globe LMS
CertificatePDF issued immediately on completion, with your logo on it
ProviderProCompliance Services Ltd, United Kingdom

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What you will be able to do

  • Understand your main duties as a health and social care worker
  • Know your rights and responsibilities in the workplace
  • Understand your role within the wider health, social and business partnerships around you

Who should take Understanding Your Role (Care)

This course is for anyone who works in an environment where caring for the wellbeing of others is crucial.

Common questions

How can my business get Understanding Your Role training for its staff?

Enrol them on ProCompliance's Understanding Your Role (Care) course. It runs online through The Globe LMS at each learner's own pace, and each learner gets a certificate as soon as they pass. It also follows the Care Certificate Standard 1, Understand your role. You can also try it free first, or book a demo to see how assigning and tracking it works.

Which Care Certificate standard does Understanding Your Role (Care) cover?

It covers Standard 1, understand your role. The Care Certificate sets out fifteen standards for new health and social care workers. Skills for Care, Skills for Health and Health Education England developed it.

How long does it take and how is it delivered?

The Globe LMS delivers it online at each learner's own pace. Your team can start, pause and resume on any device. For the current running time and module list, book a demo and we will show you the course itself.

What does Understanding Your Role (Care) cost?

We quote it for your team. Use credits, take this course on its own, or give your team 12 months of access to all our courses. Once we know what you need, we find the best value option for you.

When they pass

A Certificate of Achievement, the moment they finish

Once someone passes the end of course test, The Globe issues their certificate straight away. There is nothing to wait for, and no paper copy to lose.

  • Issued the moment they passGenerated automatically on completion and available to download as a PDF there and then.
  • Their name, the course and the dateEverything an auditor or an insurer asks for, printed on the certificate itself.
  • Your logo on every certificateIt carries your company's branding, because it is your training record.
  • Stored on their recordEvery certificate stays against that person in The Globe. Lost a copy? Then you can reprint it in seconds.
CERTIFICATE
OF ACHIEVEMENT
This is awarded to:
Sample Learner
Sample Company Ltd
On the completion of:
Understanding Your Role (Care)
Score 92%
Date completed
12 June 2026
Certificate expiry
12 June 2027
An example. Real certificates carry the learner's own name, score and dates, and only the accreditation this course holds.
Why ProCompliance

Why teams move their training to us

We run our own UK platform, which means your courses, records and contacts all sit in one place.

One library, 120+ courses

Health and safety, HR, compliance and care courses all come from one library, so a mixed team needs one supplier.

Accreditation named per course

Each course page lists the accreditation that course holds, so you know exactly what your team is getting.

Learn at their own pace

Start, pause and carry on later, on any device. Nobody loses a day to a classroom, especially for a short course.

Reporting that proves it

See who has completed what, what is outstanding and what is expiring, from one dashboard, ready for an audit.

Records that stand up

The Globe dates every pass and records it against the person. The evidence is still there long after the course.

Priced for your team

One course, credits, or full access for everyone. We price it around what your team actually needs.

Care Certificate

See Understanding Your Role (Care) with your team

Assign it across your care teams, track it against the standards, and keep the record inspection-ready rather than assembling it later.

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