Who is the Apprenticeship for?
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.
You will be expected to exercise judgement and take appropriate action to support individuals to maintain their independence, dignity and control by providing leadership, guidance and direction at the frontline of care delivery. You will be instrumental in improving the health and wellbeing of those receiving your care and support.
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
- The importance of making a difference
- The importance of communication
- Safeguarding, remaining safe from harm
- Champion health and wellbeing for the individuals they support and work colleagues
- How to work professionally, including their own professional development of those they support and work colleagues
Skills
- Treating people with respect and dignity
- Communicating clearly and responsibly
- Honouring human rights
- Take action to safeguard
- Use systems & processes
- Leadership
- Professional development
- Team working & collaboration
- Supporting individuals to remain safe from harm
- Promoting health and wellbeing for the individuals you support
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
- Care Officer
- Care Supervisor
- Senior Care Worker
- Outreach Development Worker
- Senior Support Worker
- Personal Assistant
- Relief Team Leader
- Community Support Worker
- Social Services Officer
- Social Work Assistant
- Community Outreach Worker
- Community Development Worker
These could all specialise in a variety of areas such as learning disability, mental health, drug and alcohol misuse, homecare, dementia and end-of-life care.
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:
- Situational judgement test: 60 scenario-based questions. The apprentice must pass the test before going on to the interview.
- Interview/professional discussion: A 45-minute interview in controlled conditions with an independent assessor. Questions are based on the standard, including behaviours, and draw on the apprentice’s learning and experiences during on-programme. It may explore the self-assessment and service user testimonies too.
Duration
The duration of the Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker will typically be 15 – 18 months.
The minimum duration on programme before an apprentice can take the end-point assessment is 12 months.