Leader in Adult Care

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Level 5 Leader in Adult Care

Role Overview and Expectation

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 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. They have a responsibility to ensure the service is safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led. They may be a registered manager of a service, unit, deputy or assistant manager. They will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance of the care given and the values and training of staff with established standards and regulations.

Typical job titles might include: Registered, assistant, deputy, unit or service manager…

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Banding

£7000

Course Duration

18 Months(15 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

  • Systems and processes needed to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures including health and safety and risk management
  • Range of tools and strategies to enhance communication including technology
  • Legislation, national and local solutions for the safeguarding of adults and children including reporting requirements
  • Systems and processes necessary to ensure professional development opportunities are identified, planned, sourced, evaluated and recorded for workers
  • Theories of management and leadership and their application to adult care
  • Features of effective team performance.

Skills

  • Develop and apply systems and processes needed to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures
  • Develop and lead implementation of organisational practices to create and sustain a culture that actively champions dignity and respects diversity, inclusion and fairness in the workplace
  • Implement systems to train and support work colleagues to enable them to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse and or unsafe practices, following organisational policies and procedures
  • Embed systems to improve performance of self and/or work colleagues through supervision, reflective practice and learning and development opportunities
  • Create a supportive culture that values initiative and innovation and recognises the variety of skills of all within the service, both workers and individuals supported.

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, empathy 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
  • Individuals will undergo all the checks as per the EYFS requirements to ensure suitability to work with children.

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