Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Adult Care

Course Structure

This course is completed partially as a distance learning qualification by:

• Individual research and evidence gathering at home under the guidance of your personal assessor

• Telephone assessment appointments to discuss your evidence and/or submitting written evidence to your assessor

An observation of you in practice is required to complete this qualification.

You must also be working in positions where you have input on staff supervisions, deal with complaints, leading or managing a team, input within finance, lead staff meetings and have input within care needs assessments.

There are no exams required to achieve the qualification

Course Duration

Depending on the units taken the average learning time is approximately 407 hours but many learners do complete in less time than that. We find most learners can complete this programme within a 9- 12month timescale. This course has a limit of 12 months to complete from enrolment date.

Costs

This course is fully funded, but there is an initial registration enrolment fee of £25, usually paid by your employer.

Who can enrol for this course?

Must be aged 19+. As this qualification requires observation of the learner in practice, learners must be in a job role appropriate to the chosen units.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements however learners should have a minimum of level 2 in literacy and numeracy or equivalent.

Who is this course suitable for?

This course is designed for

• Anyone employed in the Health and Social care sector who is in a managerial role and looking to progress their career

• Anyone with the opportunity to move into a managerial role and requires the underpinning knowledge and skillset to make the move into the role successful

• Anyone already in a management position but is yet to achieve a formal qualification at Level 5

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course you will be issued with a free online copy of your certificate. Candidates wishing to have a hard copy certificate will be charged £100 less the cost of your initial registration enrolment fee

What will I learn by taking this course

Learners must achieve a minimum of 80 credits to achieve the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF). Learners must achieve 60 credits from mandatory units and the remaining credits come from the optional units

There are 17 Mandatory Units

• Communication and information management in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Decision making in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Entrepreneurial skills in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Equality, diversity and inclusion in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Governance and regulatory processes in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Innovation and change in adult care (Credit Value 2)

• Lead and manage a team within adult care (Credit Value 5)

• Manage continuous improvement in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Manage self for leadership in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Managing concerns and complaints in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Outcomes based person centred practice in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Partnership working in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Principles of Leadership and management in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Resource management in adult care (Credit Value 3)

• Regulatory Processes for Adult Care

• Risk-taking and risk management in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Safeguarding and protection in adult care (Credit Value 4)

• Supervision and performance management in adult care (Credit Value 4)

Group B Optional Units

• Appraise staff performance (Credit value 5)

• Assess the needs of carers and families (Credit Value 4)

• Develop and implement operational plans within own area of responsibility (Credit value 5)

• Develop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaints (Credit Value 6)

• Develop, maintain and use records and reports (Credit Value 3)

• End of life and dementia care (Credit Value 2)

• Explore models of disability (Credit value 5)

• Facilitate coaching and mentoring of practitioners in health and social care settings (Credit Value 6)

• Identify and act upon immediate risk of danger to substance misusers (Credit Value 4)

• Implement the positive behavioural support model (Credit Value 8)

• Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (Credit Value 12)

• Independent Mental Health Advocacy (Credit Value 7)

• Lead and manage end of life care services (Credit Value 7)

• Lead and manage group living for adults (Credit value 5)

• Lead and manage infection prevention and control within the work setting (Credit Value 6)

• Lead and manage practice in dementia care (Credit Value 6)

• Lead positive behavioural support (Credit Value 10)

• Lead practice in assessing and planning for the needs of families and carers (Credit Value 3)