The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges. They will have achieved a level of self-development to be recognised as a lead practitioner within the care team, contributing to, promoting and sustaining a values-based culture at an operational level.
A Lead Practitioner has a greater depth of knowledge and expertise of particular conditions being experienced by the user of services. They will have specialist skills and knowledge in their area of responsibilities which will allow them to lead in areas such as care needs assessment, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and enablement, telecare and assistive technology. They will be a coach and mentor to others and will have a role in assessing performance and quality of care delivery. As well as covering Lead Practitioners in Adult Care this standard also covers Lead Personal Assistants.
Examples of job roles may include: Dementia Lead, Re-ablement Worker, Physiotherapy Assistant, Occupational Therapy Assistant, Public Health Associate Worker, Contact Worker, Community Care/Support Officer, Social Care Assessor…
£7000
18 Months(15 months qualification and 3 x months EPA)
Blended Learning
You will learn to demonstrate a variety of knowledge, skills, and behaviours. Some of the course material will consist of evidencing:
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