Leader in Adult Care level 5 Apprenticeship
Overview
Introducing our esteemed Leader in Adult Care Level 5 Apprenticeship—a comprehensive program meticulously crafted to empower individuals with advanced expertise and proficiency in delivering exceptional care to adults across diverse settings. This carefully designed apprenticeship covers a wide array of topics, including person-centred care, complex care needs, care planning, and fostering independence.
How Does the Program Work?
Our Leader in Adult Care Level 5 Apprenticeship is specifically tailored to accommodate the needs of your business and employees, offering a range of key features that ensure success:
Practical On-the-Job Training: Apprentices will engage in hands-on training within your organization, allowing them to immediately apply their newly acquired skills to their roles. This seamless integration of learning and work experience enables significant personal and professional growth.
Structured Learning: Apprentices will participate in well-structured lessons facilitated by experienced instructors. These sessions delve into advanced theoretical aspects, encouraging profound discussions and knowledge sharing that enhance expertise.
Mentorship and Support: Each apprentice will be assigned a dedicated mentor, known as a Skills Coach, who will provide invaluable guidance, monitor progress, and offer continuous support throughout the program. This personalized attention maximizes apprentices’ learning potential and fosters their development as effective leaders.
Recognised Certification: Upon successfully completing the apprenticeship, including the rigorous End-Point Assessment (EPA), apprentices will earn a nationally recognized qualification. This certification serves as a testament to their advanced skills and knowledge, bolstering their professional credibility and opening doors to exciting career advancements.
By investing in the Leader in Adult Care Level 5 Apprenticeship, you are making a substantial investment in the professional growth and development of your employees. They will acquire the expertise and confidence required to emerge as exceptional leaders in the adult care sector, making a profound and positive impact on the lives of those they support.
Awarding Body

- Apply professional judgement, standards and codes of practice relevant to the role
- Develop and sustain professional relationships with others
- Identify and access specialist help required to carry out role
- Lead the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Mentor colleagues to encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Contribute to the implementation of processes to implement and review support plans
- Provide leadership and mentoring to others for whom they are responsible
- Apply risk management policies
- Contribute to the quality assurance of the service provided
- Implement a culture that actively promotes dignity and respects diversity and inclusion
- Model high levels of empathy, understanding and compassion
- Model effective communication skills
- Identify and address barriers to communication using appropriate resources
- Apply organisational processes to record, maintain, store and share information
- Provide meaningful information to support people to make informed choices
- Apply and support others to adhere to safeguarding procedures
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to safeguarding concerns
- Apply person centred approaches to promote health and wellbeing
- Collaborate with external partners to achieve best outcomes in health and wellbeing
- Evaluate own practice and access identified development opportunities
- Evaluate the effectiveness of own leadership, mentoring and supervision skills and take steps to enhance performance
- Value individuals to develop effective teams in order to achieve best outcomes
- Contribute to the development of an effective learning culture
- Lead robust, values-based recruitment and selection processes
- Contribute to the induction process by developing the knowledge of individuals within their role
- Lead and support others in professional development through personal development plans, supervision, reflective practice, research, evidence based practice and access to learning and development opportunities
- Access to free CPD programmes and additional coaching sessions
- Online delivery with live teaching and catch-ups if you can’t make a session
- Dedicated Skills Coach for the duration of your apprenticeship journey
- Experienced Tutors, Coaches & Support Team
- Easy onboarding and induction process
Cost
£350
with Government funding of 95% (non-levy employers/SMEs)
£7,000
full cost for levy payers
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Details
- Duration: 18 Months
- Eligibility requirements: To be eligible for the apprenticeship, the apprentice must be at least 16 years old and not in full-time education. They will also need to have basic literacy and numeracy skills and be able to pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
- Assessment: Throughout the apprenticeship, the employee will be assessed on their practical skills and knowledge. The final assessment will take the form of a synoptic assessment, where they will be required to demonstrate that they can carry out the duties of an adult care worker in a simulated work environment.
- Career prospects: Completing the Leader in Adult Care Apprenticeship Level 5 opens up a range of promising career prospects in the care sector.
- Support available:
- Experienced Tutors, Coaches & Support Team,
- Dedicated Skills Coach for the duration of the apprenticeship journey,
- Easy onboarding, and induction process,
- Access to free CPD programmes and additional coaching sessions
Why Partner with Exalt?
Focused: Precision in Every Endeavor
We are architects of precision. We sculpt programs with meticulous attention, tailoring each facet to meet precise aims and unique requirements. When we commit, we do so resolutely, sparing no effort to ensure your journey is not just remarkable, but remarkable for you.
Collaborative: A Symphony of Success
Alone, we can accomplish much. Together, we can redefine the boundaries of achievement. Collaboration is not just a buzzword; it’s the harmony that resonates within us. We stand shoulder to shoulder with stakeholders, nurturing mutual aspirations and embracing the extra mile as a testament to our unwavering unity.
Adaptable: Crafting Futures, One Need at a Time
In a world of constant change, we are the chameleons of education. Adapting is not just a choice; it’s in our DNA. From programs to platforms, timetables to personal aspirations, we bend and mold ourselves to accommodate the symphony of your needs, ensuring your growth knows no bounds.
Units Covered in the Apprenticeship
A Leader in Adult Care must know and understand:
- Statutory frameworks, standards, guidance, and Codes of Practice which underpin practice in relation to the safe delivery of services.
- Theories underpinning own practice and competence relevant to the job role.
- Principles of assessment and outcome-based practice
- Principles of risk management
- How to contribute to, promote and maintain a culture which ensures dignity is at the centre of practice
- Effective communication and solutions to overcoming barriers.
- Legal and ethical frameworks in relation to confidentiality and sharing information.
- Range of technologies to enhance communication
- Legislation, national and local solutions for the safeguarding of adults and children including reporting requirements.
- Models of monitoring, reporting, and responding to changes in health and wellbeing.
- Range of holistic solutions to promote and maintain health and wellbeing using person centred approaches.
- Importance of effective partnerships, inter-agency, joint and integrated working.
- Goals and aspirations that support own professional development and how to access available opportunities
A Leader in Adult Care must be able to:
- Apply professional judgement, standards, and codes of practice relevant to the role
- Develop and sustain professional relationships with others
- Identify and access specialist help required to carry out role
- Lead the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory, and physical impairments
- Mentor colleagues to encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Contribute to the implementation of processes to implement and review support plans
- Provide leadership and mentoring to others for whom they are responsible
- Apply risk management policies
- Contribute to the quality assurance of the service provided
- Implement a culture that actively promotes dignity and respects diversity and inclusion
- Model elevated levels of empathy, understanding and compassion.
- Model effective communication skills.
- Identify and address barriers to communication using appropriate resources.
- Apply organisational processes to record, maintain, store and share information.
- Provide meaningful information to support people to make informed choices
- Apply and support others to adhere to safeguarding procedures.
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to safeguarding concerns
- Apply person centred approaches to promote health and wellbeing.
- Collaborate with external partners to achieve best outcomes in health and wellbeing
- Evaluate own practice and access identified development opportunities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of own leadership, mentoring and supervision skills and take steps to enhance performance.
- Value individuals to develop effective teams in order to achieve best outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of an effective learning culture.
Lead robust, values-based recruitment and selection processes. - Contribute to the induction process by developing the knowledge of individuals within their role
- Lead and support others in professional development through personal development plans, supervision, reflective practice, research, evidence based practice and access to learning and development opportunities
End Point Assessment (EPA)
Situational Judgement Test
Answered through a multiple-choice exercise (but not necessarily
undertaken as an online or computer-based test).
Professional Discussion
To achieve final certification, the apprentices must have completed and achieved these end-point assessments
in addition to the 15 standards as set out in the Care Certificate and the Diploma.
Are You Interested in the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship?
Please call us on 01202 612365 or use the form below to discuss your options.