Category: Health & Social Care
Leader in Adult Care
Level 5
Apprenticeship
Leading the care service and managing teams of carers to look after adults with care needs
Key apprenticeship information
Title of embedded diploma/qualification:
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management
Additional Functional Skills:
Level 2 English and maths - 19 yrs and over this is optional
Awarding Organisation:
Training Qualifications UK
Qualification duration:
18 months and 12 weeks End Point Assessment
Who is suitable:
Assistant, Deputy and Registered Managers of a service
Non-levy employer contribution (5%) - £350 Levy paying employer contribution - £7000
Funding value and cost:
About your course
As an Adult Care Leader, you are essential to the smooth running of your care environment. This qualification is for those of you who are currently in a deputy role and are looking to move into higher management, or for a Registered Manager who is looking to gain a relevant qualification.
The Leader in Adult Care will guide and inspire teams to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges.
You will be a leader of the care team and will develop and implement a values-based culture at a service or unit level. You may be responsible for business development, financial control, organisational resilience, and continuity as well as for managing risk and leading on organisational change. A Leader in Adult Care has responsibility for managing community or residential based services.
This role has a large element of leadership, whether with other care workers and networks or in leading the service itself. A successful apprentice will have met all the requirements. You have a responsibility to ensure the service is safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs, and well-led.
You may be a registered manager of a service, unit, deputy or assistant manager. You will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance of the care given and the values and training of staff with established standards and regulations.
What you will learn
This Phoenix 4 Training apprenticeship programme is designed to give your employees leadership skills, and will teach them the management techniques necessary to ensure your service is run in a safe, effective, caring and responsive way to ensure people’s needs are met.
Course Outline:
How to develop and apply systems and processes needed to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures.
How to develop and lead dignity and human rights practices within your organisation.
How to communicate and implement organisational procedures that ensure the business follows industry policy and guidance.
How to implement and support colleagues in safeguarding.
Manage the health and safety practices of the organisation and create risk assessments.
How to model a values-based culture and manage a team.
How will your qualification be delivered
Our sector expert staff will support you to achieve the apprenticeship. We have highly skilled and knowledgeable staff with significant experience of working in the industry who will be able to share their experiences and support you. All learning is either on a 1-2-1 basis or small group webinars so you have the best experience possible with Phoenix 4 Training. You will have an eportfolio to gather and store all your evidence to support your apprenticeship.
End Point Assessment
There will be an external assessment at the end of the programme once the apprentice has achieved the ‘gateway’ requirements. This includes achieving the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care and Level 2 Functional Skills in English and Maths (where applicable).
The EPA for the Level 5 Leader in Adult Care apprenticeship includes
Observation of Leadership
Professional Discussion.
The end-point assessment must be completed over a maximum total assessment time of two days, within an EPA period lasting typically for three months after the apprentice has met the EPA gateway requirements.
What you can do next
Having successfully completed this qualification, learners will have the opportunity to progress to the following:
Level 6 Registered Nurses Apprenticeship
Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship
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