Health and Social Care Courses

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).

Duration:
12 months

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Adult Care Worker, Apprenticeship Standard

Lead 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. In addition, Lead Adult Care Workers have responsibility for providing supervision, frontline leadership, guidance and direction for others, or working autonomously, exercising judgement and accountability.

Duration:
18 months

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Lead Adult Care Worker, Apprenticeship Standard

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.

Duration:
18 months

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Lead Practitioner in Adult Care, Apprenticeship Standard

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.  

Duration:
18 months

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Full specification:
Leader in Adult Care, Apprenticeship Standard