Adult Care Worker

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Level 2 Adult Care Worker

Role Overview and Expectation

Adult Care Workers are the frontline staff who help adults with care and support needs to achieve their personal goals and live as independently and safely as possible, enabling them to have control and choice in their lives. To work in care is to make a positive difference to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, or intellectual challenges. Care Workers are the frontline staff who help adults with care and support needs to achieve their personal goals and live as independently and safely as possible, enabling them to have control and choice in their lives which is at the heart of person centred care.

Adult Care Workers may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, day centres, a person’s own home or some clinical healthcare settings. Personal assistants do the same job as an Adult Care Worker and work directly for one individual usually within their own home. Working with people, feeling passionate about supporting and enabling them to live a more independent and fulfilling life is a rewarding and worthwhile job that provides excellent career opportunities.

Job titles might include Care Assistant, Care Worker, Support Worker, Personal Assistant, Relief Team Worker, Support Worker, key worker…

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Banding

£4000

Course Duration

15 Months(12 months qualification and 3 x months EPA)

Course Delivery

Blended Learning

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Course Content

You will learn to demonstrate a variety of knowledge, skills, and behaviours. Some of the course material will consist of evidencing:

Knowledge

  • The job they have to do, their main tasks and responsibilities
  • The importance of having the right values and behaviors
  • The importance of communication
  • How to support individuals to remain safe from harm (Safeguarding)
  • How to promote health and wellbeing for the individuals they support and work colleagues
  • How to work professionally, including their own professional development.

Skills

  • The main tasks and responsibilities according to their job role
  • Treating people with respect and dignity and honouring their human rights
  • Communicating clearly and responsibly
  • Supporting individuals to remain safe from harm (Safeguarding)
  • Championing health and wellbeing for the individuals they support and work colleagues
  • Working professionally and seeking to develop their own professional development.

Behaviours

  • Care – is caring consistently and enough about individuals to make a positive difference to their lives
  • Compassion – is delivering care and support with kindness, consideration, dignity and respect
  • Courage – is doing the right thing for people and speaking up if the individual they support is at risk
  • Communication – good communication is central to successful caring relationships and effective team working
  • Competence – is applying knowledge and skills to provide high quality care and support
  • Commitment – to improving the experience of people who need care and support ensuring it is person centred

Eligibility

  • You need to have lived in the UK for the last 3 years
  • Be employed with a contract of employment
  • Not have a prior qualification in the same subject, at the equivalent level.

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