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Entry Requirements

Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to completion of their Apprenticeship. Must be in senior Health Care role have a DBS Check and pass an initial assessment.

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Part Time

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Duration

20 Months


Key features and Benefits

  • Taught by industry specialists and benefit from long standing industry partnerships
  • Training Provider of the Year 2024 - Lancashire Apprenticeship Awards
  • Develop your current skillset and progress to more senior roles in your current workplace
  • Study at the 3rd Best College in England*

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.

  • Overview

    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. They will be a leader of the care team and will develop and implement a values-based culture at a service or unit level.

    They 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 to 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.

    They will have responsibility to ensure the service is safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs and well-led. They will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance of the care given and the values and training of staff with established standards and regulations.

  • What will I study?

    • Statutory frameworks, standards, guidance and Codes of Practice which underpin practice in relation to the safe delivery of services
    • Systems and processes needed to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures including health and safety and risk management
    • Principles of risk management, assessment and outcome based practice
    • Principles and underpinning theories of change management including approaches, tools and techniques that support the change process
    • Legislative and regulatory frameworks which inform quality standards
    • Theories and models that underpin performance and appraisal including disciplinary procedures
  • Entry Requirements

     

    Apprentices without Level 2 English and Maths will need to achieve this level prior to completion of their Apprenticeship. Must be in senior Health Care role have a DBS Check and pass an initial assessment.

  • How will I be assessed?

    End Point Assessment (EPA)

    The EPA consists of two distinct assessment methods:

    • Observation of Leadership

    • Professional discussion

  • What can I do next?

    Other relevant courses.

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