Who is the Apprenticeship for?
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.
You will learn to be responsible for creating a supportive culture that values initiative and innovation and recognises the variety of skills of all team members within the service. You will ensure that the policies and procedures required to ensure the well-being and quality of life of the service users are followed and the values of your business are adopted by all team members.
The Apprenticeship Programme
All apprenticeship standards have their own criteria for the knowledge, skills and behaviours that will be developed over the apprenticeship programme.
Knowledge
- Guidance and codes of practice
- Principles of risk management, assessment & outcome
- Safeguarding & Cyber Security
- Change management
- Performance & Supervisions
- Legislation & policy around equality, diversity & inclusion
- The value of learning & professional development
- Leadership and Management theories and application to Adult Care
- Creating a positive culture
- Create a culture that supports whistleblowing in the organisation
Skills
- Systems & processes to ensure compliance
- Lead and support others to work in a person centred
- Encourage others to be involved in co-production of service operation
- Build effective organisational policies, systems and processes for safeguarding
- Implementation of practices to champion diversity, dignity & fairness
- Leadership, develop & lead a culture that values courage
- Professional development
- Translate policy & guidelines into understandable information to a range of audiences
- Comply with health, safety & risk policies
- Support colleagues, recognise & respond to potential signs of abuse/unsafe practices
Behaviours
- Caring consistently and enough about individuals to make a positive difference to their lives
- Compassion, 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
Typical roles that this apprenticeship will support are
- Registered Manager
- Assistant Manager
- Deputy Manager
Leaders in Adult Care may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, community day centres, a person’s own home or some clinical healthcare settings.
Delivery
Elysium Training is committed to providing dedicated support that adds value to career progression.
- Online Live Skills Development Programme
- Online Live Knowledge Teaching Sessions
- Face-Face Mentoring sessions
- Face-Face Knowledge Teaching Sessions - Optional
End Point Assessment
To achieve final certification, the Apprentice must have an appropriate place, with internet access, to undertake the End-Point Assessment (EPA).
The EPA consists of three distinct components:
- Observation of Leadership
- Interview/professional discussion
Duration
The duration of the Level 5 Leader in Adult Care will typically be 18 months.
The minimum duration on programme before an apprentice can take the end-point assessment is 12 months.