Health and Social Care Courses

This Study Programme will provide you with basic knowledge and awareness of working in n health, social care and children and young people’s settings including the roles played by workers.

You will also gain knowledge in more specialised areas such as learning disability, sensory loss and mental health. This qualification will not lead directly to employment but does provide a starting point for you to decide whether further learning and/or a career in health, social care and/or children and young people’s settings are right for you.

What will I learn

• Understanding communication and person-centred approaches
• Equality and inclusion
• Health and safety
• Safeguarding, protection and duty of care
• Human growth and development
• Introduction to mental health
• Healthy lifestyle

Adult Care Workers provide frontline care for vulnerable adults within their own homes, daycare centres, residential and nursing homes and other healthcare settings.

Working in a caring profession, with vulnerable people, demands the right skills and behaviours. You must be caring, compassionate, committed and responsible. For the right person, this can be a rewarding career. The care you provide must be delivered with kindness, consideration, dignity and respect.

This Apprenticeship Standard qualification has been designed by 12 leading employers, so you can be sure that it meets the needs of the modern caring profession. Designed by: London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Barchester Healthcare and Hertfordshire County Council (to name a few).

The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences to someone’s life. 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.