How your Caring Counts in the Workplace badge is issued

To access your badge

From within the Caring Counts in the Workplace course:

Go to the navigation block and under My Profile you can access My Badges. When you click on My Badges you will be taken to your My Badges page on OpenLearn Works.

Figure 8 My badges page on OpenLearn Works

To view the details of the badge, and to download it or add it to your Mozzilla Backpack, click on the badge and you will be taken to the Badge information page.

Figure 9 Badge information page

You can then either download this page to your computer or add the badge to your Mozilla Backpack.

What your badge will demonstrate

The Caring Counts in the Workplace badge shows that you have gained an understanding of the process of reflection and personal planning, and that you have achieved the following learning outcomes:

• a clearer understanding of the experiences of carers
• an appreciation of the various skills, qualities and attributes that carers may develop and how some of these are transferable to work contexts
• an understanding of carers’ motivations to return to work, or to balance paid employment with their caring role
• an awareness of the factors that may help or hinder carers who are in paid employment, and the support available to them
• an understanding of your role, and your organisation’s role, in supporting carers in your workforce
• insight to help promote early identification of carers as part of your support and supervision
• an awareness of how workplace policies and practice can help ensure carers don’t experience discrimination at work
• the ability to identify practical steps to take to foster a Carer Positive workplace
• an understanding of how the Core Principles for Working with Carers and Young Carers are applicable in your practice.

The Caring Counts in the Workplace badge does not represent formal credit or award. It does demonstrate successful participation in informal learning activity.

Sharing your badge

Badges awarded within OpenLearn Works [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] can be shared via the Mozilla Backpack.

Downloading your badge to your Mozilla Backpack

You will need to create a Mozilla Backpack account.

When you have done this, click on the Add to backpack button and you will be asked to log into Mozilla if you have not already done so.

Follow the instructions on the screen and your badge should be automatically added to your backpack.