Who is the apprenticeship for?
As a Lead Practitioner in Adult Care, you will be responsible for assessing the performance and quality of care delivery. You may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, day centres, a person’s own home or a clinical healthcare setting. This programme is also suitable for Lead Personal Assistants who can work at this senior level but may work directly for one individual who needs support and care services, usually within their own home.
Typical roles that this apprenticeship will support are:
Dementia Lead
Re-ablement Worker
Physiotherapy Assistant
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Public Health Associate Worker
Community Care/Support Officer
Social Care Assessor
Care Assessment Officer
Social Services Officer
Brokerage Worker
Rehabilitation and Reablement Assistant
Independence Support Assistant
Diploma in Adult Care Level 4
18 months
City & Guilds
What will you learn?
You will learn how to will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences to each service user’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges. You will achieve a level of self-development to be recognised as a lead practitioner within the care team, contributing to, promoting and sustaining a values-based culture at an operational level.
You will gain a greater depth of knowledge and expertise of particular conditions being experienced by the user of services. you will have specialist skills and knowledge in their area of responsibilities which will allow you to lead in areas such as care needs assessment, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and enablement, telecare and assistive technology. You will learn to be a coach and mentor to others and will have a role in assessing performance and quality of care delivery.
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
- Assessment & outcome-based practice
- Codes of practice underpinning safe delivery of services
- Contributing & promoting a culture which ensures dignity
- Confidentiality & sharing information
- Professional development
- Safeguarding of adults & children
- Monitoring, reporting & responding to changes in health & wellbeing
- Holistic solutions to promote and maintain health & wellbeing
- Effective partnerships, inter-agency, joint & integrated working
Skills
- Develop & sustain professional relationships with others
- Effective communication skills
- Provide information to support people to make informed choices
- Work in partnership with external agencies, responding to safeguarding concerns
- How to collaborate with external partners to achieve best outcomes in health & wellbeing
- How to lead robust, values-based recruitment & selection processes
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. The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care apprenticeship will teach you the skills to begin a long and successful career in this industry. There is always room for growth and continuous development in this industry, so you can move up but undertaking a higher apprenticeship programme like the Leadership & Management for Adult Care Level 5 to progress your career.
If you’re interested in starting your Lead Practitioner in Adult Care with us, 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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