This apprenticeship is made up of the Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care, the Level 3 Lead Adult Care Apprenticeship Standard and the *Care Certificate.

In apprenticeships, Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours (KSBs) are essential components that define the competencies an apprentice must demonstrate.

The Level 3 Lead Adult Care 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 topics such as:

– Professional Boundaries, Values and Behaviours
– Safeguard Individuals
– Championing Health and Wellbeing
– Professional development
– Demonstrate dignity and honour others human rights
– Communicate Clearly and Responsibly
– Review and Amend Care Plans
– Champion Independent Decision Making
– Lead and Support Colleagues

Within the Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care learners must achieve 39 credits from 13 mandatory units and a minimum of 19 credits from the optional units. Your assessor will support you with choosing your optional units.

The mandatory units cover core knowledge and skills, while the optional units will allow you to choose from a variety of areas to tailor the qualification to your needs and interests, and to reflect the context of your work.

– Promote communication in care settings
– Handling information
– Promote own continuous personal and professional development
– Person-centred practice, choice and independence
– Understand how to promote personal wellbeing
– Equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights
– Health and safety of individuals
– Health and wellbeing of individuals in care settings
– Scope and responsibilities of an adult care worker
– Duty of care
– Safeguarding individuals
– Mental capacity and restrictive practices
– Infection prevention and control

The optional units include topics such as continence management, personalisation, providing support to individuals with dementia, diabetes awareness, cleaning decontamination and waste, end of life care, supporting sensory loss, promote stroke care management, support individuals with Parkinson’s disease, advance care planning, long-term conditions and frailty, mentoring, leading an effective team, contributing to quality assurance and supervision skills to develop and support others.

Some optional units are knowledge only and can be completed with a written assignment, others have some written elements as well as skills that must be observed by your assessor. If you choose an optional unit with skills as part of it, you must be able to demonstrate these when observed.

There is no college attendance for this apprenticeship. Learning will take place both within the workplace and in your non-working time. You must be able to study independently outside of the workplace. Your practical skills will regularly be observed by your assessor.

*Care Certificate – this will be completed by your employer at the beginning of your apprenticeship.