As a Children, Young People and Family Manager you will be working as a manager or deputy manager in a children’s residential home. You will ensure direction, alignment and commitment within your own practice, your teams, your organisation and across partnerships to help children, young people and families aspire to do their best and achieve sustainable change. You will build teams, manage resources and lead new approaches to working practices that deliver improved outcomes and put the child, young person or family at the centre of practice.
Health and Social Care
Children, Young People and Families Manager Apprenticeship (Level 5)
Apprenticeship
Health and Social Care
Flexible
Study Mode
Apprenticeship
Start Date, Location
Flexible, Flexible
Duration
2 years
Cost
£.00
per academic year.
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What will I learn?
This apprenticeship is made up of the Level 5 Children, Young People and Families Manager Apprenticeship Standard and the Level 5 Diploma in Residential Childcare.
In apprenticeships, Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours (KSBs) are essential components that define the competencies an apprentice must demonstrate.
The Level 5 Children. Young People and Families Manager Apprenticeship Standard is made of Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours. These are assessed at the end of the Apprenticeship in an End Point Assessment and cover mandatory topics such as:
• Theories underpinning the learning, development and motivation of individuals and teams
• Leadership skills that set the ethos, aims and approach of the home
• Manages the application of professional judgement, standards and codes of practice
• Modelling an ethos that actively promotes equality, resilience, dignity and respects diversity and inclusion
• The principles and practice of supervision with staff
• Understanding and implementing the safeguarding requirements at local and national levels
• Creating a healthy, safe and stimulating environment that fulfils health and safety legislation and requirements
• Understands the quality assurance of health and social care in line with OFSTED, CQC and other regulatory bodies
• The theories of intervention to meet the needs to children, young people and adults within the family
• Develops, facilitates and leads changes in working practices that deliver improved outcomes
• Actively encourages the participation of children, young people and families in service improvement
• The practice and principles of resource management, including the commissioning cycle and its application
• Inter-agency and multi-agency work and its role in ensuring positive outcomes
• Engages in reflective practice and develops a learning culture across the team.
Within the Level 5 Diploma for Residential Childcare learners must achieve 57 credits from the mandatory units and a minimum of 8 credits from at least 3 optional units. Your assessor will support you with choosing your optional units.
There is no college attendance for this apprenticeship.
In apprenticeships, Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours (KSBs) are essential components that define the competencies an apprentice must demonstrate.
The Level 5 Children. Young People and Families Manager Apprenticeship Standard is made of Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours. These are assessed at the end of the Apprenticeship in an End Point Assessment and cover mandatory topics such as:
• Theories underpinning the learning, development and motivation of individuals and teams
• Leadership skills that set the ethos, aims and approach of the home
• Manages the application of professional judgement, standards and codes of practice
• Modelling an ethos that actively promotes equality, resilience, dignity and respects diversity and inclusion
• The principles and practice of supervision with staff
• Understanding and implementing the safeguarding requirements at local and national levels
• Creating a healthy, safe and stimulating environment that fulfils health and safety legislation and requirements
• Understands the quality assurance of health and social care in line with OFSTED, CQC and other regulatory bodies
• The theories of intervention to meet the needs to children, young people and adults within the family
• Develops, facilitates and leads changes in working practices that deliver improved outcomes
• Actively encourages the participation of children, young people and families in service improvement
• The practice and principles of resource management, including the commissioning cycle and its application
• Inter-agency and multi-agency work and its role in ensuring positive outcomes
• Engages in reflective practice and develops a learning culture across the team.
Within the Level 5 Diploma for Residential Childcare learners must achieve 57 credits from the mandatory units and a minimum of 8 credits from at least 3 optional units. Your assessor will support you with choosing your optional units.
There is no college attendance for this apprenticeship.
Entry Requirements
Before enrolment all applicants will have an informal interview where we will outline the commitment, engagement and study requirements of the apprenticeship, and the resources and support available from the college. Applicants will have the opportunity to discuss their learning needs and to ask any questions.
At Level 5 this is a higher-level apprenticeship. A strong level of written English is essential as learners will need to understand complex information and produce written work that goes beyond description, you may need to include analysis, evaluation and critical discussion in your work. A GCSE grade C/4 or Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent in English is an entry requirement for this apprenticeship. If you do not have a formal qualification in English, don’t worry, please reach out to us to complete an English assessment with us.
You must be over the age of 19 years to enrol on this apprenticeship and have passed your probationary period before you can begin this apprenticeship.
If your employer has agreed to support you on this apprenticeship, contact the Apprenticeship team and we’ll get you started. Email apprenticeships@wiltshire.ac.uk
At Level 5 this is a higher-level apprenticeship. A strong level of written English is essential as learners will need to understand complex information and produce written work that goes beyond description, you may need to include analysis, evaluation and critical discussion in your work. A GCSE grade C/4 or Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent in English is an entry requirement for this apprenticeship. If you do not have a formal qualification in English, don’t worry, please reach out to us to complete an English assessment with us.
You must be over the age of 19 years to enrol on this apprenticeship and have passed your probationary period before you can begin this apprenticeship.
If your employer has agreed to support you on this apprenticeship, contact the Apprenticeship team and we’ll get you started. Email apprenticeships@wiltshire.ac.uk
Study, Assessment and Qualifications
The Level 5 Children, Young People and Families Manager Apprenticeship is not a taught course. You will be assigned an assessor who will provide you with resources and support to complete each unit through a range of assessments.
Apprentices will be assessed and prepared for the Apprenticeship End Point Assessment by their assessor through a range of methods, including written assignments, direct observation in the workplace, professional discussions, creative tasks and the preparation of a portfolio of evidence which will be used in the End Point Assessment. This is the final assessment an apprentice undertakes to complete their apprenticeship and is carried out by an independent assessor.
Apprentices must record a minimum of 490 hours of learning and development, this is called ‘Off the Job Training’, which must take place during your paid working hours. This can include work shadowing, training, workshops, online learning, mentoring, time for assignment writing or revision. In fact, any learning and development that supports learning on the apprenticeship can be recorded.
Apprentices will be assessed and prepared for the Apprenticeship End Point Assessment by their assessor through a range of methods, including written assignments, direct observation in the workplace, professional discussions, creative tasks and the preparation of a portfolio of evidence which will be used in the End Point Assessment. This is the final assessment an apprentice undertakes to complete their apprenticeship and is carried out by an independent assessor.
Apprentices must record a minimum of 490 hours of learning and development, this is called ‘Off the Job Training’, which must take place during your paid working hours. This can include work shadowing, training, workshops, online learning, mentoring, time for assignment writing or revision. In fact, any learning and development that supports learning on the apprenticeship can be recorded.
Additional Costs and Information
Learners will use an e-portfolio for the duration of their course. Access to a lap-top, computer or other device with Internet, camera and audio is required. Learners will not be able to complete this course on a phone or small tablet due to the different types of assessments that must be completed.
If you do not have a suitable Internet connected device and are based in Wiltshire, your employer may be able to apply for a loan of one from Wiltshire Digital Drive www.wiltshiredigitaldrive.org
There is no required textbook for this course, your assessor will provide you with many resources, but you will also need to carry out your own research for written assignments. Our Learning Resource Centres have a range of books and resources to support this course.
If you do not have a suitable Internet connected device and are based in Wiltshire, your employer may be able to apply for a loan of one from Wiltshire Digital Drive www.wiltshiredigitaldrive.org
There is no required textbook for this course, your assessor will provide you with many resources, but you will also need to carry out your own research for written assignments. Our Learning Resource Centres have a range of books and resources to support this course.
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