Leadership for Health and Social Care Services - Level 5 Diploma

Essentials

Duration: 2 Years Part-time
Start date: 18th September 2023
End date: 3rd June 2025
Day: Mon
Time: 10:00-17:30
Information event: Y

Course fee: To be confirmed

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Course Content

This professional qualification is designed to build advanced knowledge and skills required by Managers, Deputy Managers, Senior care workers who aspire to be managers who work in the Residential /Domiciliary Health and Social Care sector. It is the accepted qualification for registration and regulation in accordance with RQIA guidance. The qualification is appropriate for Managers who wish to gain a recognised leadership qualification and are already working in health and social care and have not yet achieved a vocational qualification at this level. Learners must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills at level 5 and that their job role allows them to be able to demonstrate the required skills in real work activities.  You will have the option to specialise in Adults' Residential Management or Adult Care.  There is also the opportunity to fast-track in one year.

Modules include:

• Use and Develop Systems that Promote Communication
• Promote Professional Development
• Champion Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Develop Health and Safety and Risk Management Policies, Procedures and Practices in Health and Social Care Settings
• Work in Partnership in Health and Social Care Settings
• Manage Health and Social Care Practice to Ensure Positive Outcomes for Individuals
• Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Adults
• Understand Safeguarding
• Lead Person-Centred Practice
• Lead and Manage a Team within a Health and Social Care Setting
• Assess the Individual in a Health and Social Care Setting

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Assessment Methods

Learners will build up a portfolio of evidence, this will be in the form of written statements or ‘Reflective Accounts’ along with supporting work products you have produced. An assessor will visit you in the workplace during the course and carry out observations of you at work. These will be planned in advance in order to cause the minimum disruption to your work routine and to try to capture as much information as possible in each visit.

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Learners must be in a care role to study this course this can be full, part-time or in a voluntary capacity.

Where mature students wish to have prior education and/or experience taken into account, in lieu of meeting the full course entry requirements, they should contact the relevant Course Director or Admissions by 12th August, as an application deadline will apply. It is at the College's discretion to consider APEL enquiries after the dates stated.

In the event of oversubscription, the College reserves the right to increase the entry criteria for this programme to GCSE Maths and English at Grade C or above in preference to Essential Skills or lower graded GCSEs. Applicants will still be reviewed in date order and by order of preference.

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Upon successful completion you may progress into professional management within the health and social care sector such as a manager of Adult Care, residential and Domiciliary services or an Advanced Practitioner or you may choose to continue your learning and studies.

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