Lead Adult Care Worker
Who is the apprenticeship for?
Adult care is a challenging and rewarding industry to get into. You need to have a caring nature, and a desire to give the best care possible to those you are responsible for.
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.
As well as covering Lead Adult Care Workers this standard also covers Lead Personal Assistants who can work at this senior level, but they may only work directly for one individual who needs support and/or care services, usually within their own home.
Typical roles that this apprenticeship will support are:
Care Officer
Care Supervisor
Senior Care Worker
Supervising Care Worker
Senior Support Worker
Relief Team Leader
Social Work Assistant
Social Services Officer
Outreach Development Worker
Community Support Worker
Community Outreach Worker
Community Development Worker
Family Support Worker or Personal Assistant
Diploma in Care. Level 3
12 months
City & Guilds
What will you learn?
As a Lead Adult Care Worker, you will be given the skills and knowledge to make a positive difference to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional or intellectual challenges.
You will work as frontline staff helping 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. Also, your Lead Adult Care Worker Level 3 apprenticeship will offer expanded responsibility for providing supervision, frontline leadership, guidance and direction for others, or working autonomously, exercising judgement and accountability.
How will you learn?
Our Personal Tutors will deliver high-quality face-to-face learning and coaching and provide all the resources you will need to progress quickly. Our intuitive learner management system ‘Bud’ will really bring the subject to life through interactive learning tools, access to complementary online resources and relevant social communities, as well as provide real-time information so that you will always know where you’re at in your learner journey.
This apprenticeship will develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours in the following areas:
Knowledge
- The importance of making a difference
- How to exercise judgement
Skills
- Take action to safeguard
- Leadership
- Use systems & processes
- Team working & collaboration
- Good Communication
- treating people with respect and dignity
- honouring human rights
- communicating clearly and responsibly
- supporting individuals to remain safe from harm
- promoting health and wellbeing for the individuals you support
Behaviours
- Caring consistently – making a positive difference to people’s lives
- Delivering care with kindness, consideration, dignity and respect
- Doing the right thing and speaking up if individuals are at risk
- Communicating to enable successful, caring relationships and effective team-working
- Applying knowledge and skills to provide high-quality care and support; commitment – improving the lives of people who need care and support
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Your pathway to success
The health and social care sector is essential in the UK, especially with factors including longer lifespan, better treatment and expectations of care delivery always rising. This Lead Adult Care Worker apprenticeship gives you the ability to complete your role with confidence, and lead a team. As you will know, there is always room for professional development, so you may like to explore moving up to a Level 4 or 5 qualification to continue progressing within your field.
If you’re interested in starting your Adult Care career with Paragon Skills, we can help you get there. Get in touch today!
Sunrise Healthcare
Paragon Skills work closely with us every step of the way. They really understood our operational and people development requirements, they listened to us and gave practical advice and suggestions during every stage of the design implementation process.
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