Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship LEVEL 3
Overview
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of others? Do you have a natural inclination for caring and supporting individuals in need? If so, the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 3 is the perfect opportunity for you to develop a rewarding and fulfilling career in the care sector.
As a Lead Adult Care Worker, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality care and support to adults with a range of needs, including physical, emotional, and social requirements. This apprenticeship program equips you with the essential knowledge, skills, and practical experience needed to excel in this important profession.
Throughout the apprenticeship, you will learn to effectively communicate and engage with individuals, empowering them to maintain their independence and lead fulfilling lives. You will develop a deep understanding of person-centred care, ensuring that the needs and preferences of each individual are respected and met with dignity and respect.
The apprenticeship curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including safeguarding, health, and safety, promoting equality and diversity, and supporting individuals with specific needs. You will gain expertise in conducting assessments, developing care plans, and implementing effective strategies to enhance the overall well-being of those in your care.
Under the guidance of experienced mentors and trainers, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge in real-world settings, working alongside experienced professionals in various care environments. This hands-on experience will enable you to refine your skills, build confidence, and develop a comprehensive understanding of the day-to-day responsibilities of a Lead Adult Care Worker.
As an apprentice, you will also receive ongoing support and guidance to progress in your career. You will have access to a range of resources, including workshops, seminars, and professional development opportunities, allowing you to stay up to date with the latest industry standards and best practices.
Upon successful completion of the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 3, you will possess a nationally recognised qualification, opening doors to a wide range of employment opportunities within the care sector. Whether you choose to work in residential care homes, community-based settings, or specialized care facilities, this apprenticeship will provide you with a solid foundation to make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable adults. Embark on a fulfilling and rewarding career as a Lead Adult Care Worker. Take the first step towards your future by enrolling in the Level 3 apprenticeship program today. Transform lives and create a positive impact in the care sector.
Awarding Body
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory, and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers, and other professionals
- Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in social care
- Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion
- Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
- Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals
- Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences
- Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
- Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
- Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
- Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
- Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
- Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
- Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
- Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
- Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes
- 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
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Details
- Duration: 13 Months
- Eligibility requirements: To be eligible for the apprenticeship, you must be at least 16 years old and not in full-time education. You 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, you will be assessed on your practical skills and knowledge. The final assessment will take the form of a synoptic assessment, where you will be required to demonstrate that you can carry out the duties of an adult care worker in a simulated work environment.
- Career prospects: Completing the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 3 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 your apprenticeship journey,
- Easy onboarding, and induction process,
- Access to free CPD programmes and additional coaching sessions
Why study with Exalt?
Focused
We customise and sculpt programs to precisely align with specific objectives or requirements. We operate with efficiency and professionalism, avoiding unnecessary delays or distractions.
Collaborative
Adaptable
Units Covered in the Apprenticeship
A Lead Adult Care Worker must know and understand:
The job they have to do, their main tasks and responsibilities
- Their job roles and other worker roles relevant to the context of the service in which they are working. This could include supporting with social activities, monitoring health, assisting with eating, mobility, and personal care.
- Both their own and other workers professional boundaries and limits training and expertise.
Relevant statutory Standards and Codes of Practice for their role. - What the ‘Duty of Care’ is in practice.
- How to create and develop a care plan based on the person’s preferences in the way they want to be supported.
- How to monitor, plan, review a care plan in response to changing physical, social, and emotional needs of individuals.
- How to lead and support others to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures
The importance of having the right values and behaviours
- How to ensure that dignity is at the centre of all work with individuals and their support circles.
- The importance of respecting diversity, the principles of inclusion and treating everyone fairly.
The importance of communication
- The barriers to communication and be able to both identify, and determine, the best solutions to achieve success when communicating with the individual they are supporting.
- How to communicate clearly both verbally and non-verbally and able to influence others to maximise the quality of interaction.
- The role of advocates and when they might be involved.
- Their own, and other workers’ responsibilities for ensuring confidential information is kept safe.
How to support individuals to remain safe from harm (Safeguarding)
- What abuse is and what to do when they have concerns someone is being abused.
- The national and local strategies for safeguarding and protection from abuse.
- What to do when receiving comments and complaints ensuring appropriate and timely actions takes place.
- How to recognise and prevent unsafe practices in the workplace.
- The importance and process of whistleblowing, being able to facilitate timely intervention.
- How to address and resolve any dilemmas they may face between a person’s rights and their safety.
How to champion health and wellbeing for the individuals they support and work colleagues
- The health and safety responsibilities of self, employer, and workers.
- How to keep safe in the work environment.
- What to do when there is an accident or sudden illness and take appropriate action.
- What to do with hazardous substances.
- How to promote fire safety and how to support others to so.
- How to reduce the spread of infection and support others in infection prevention and control.
- How to use and promote with others where relevant, risk assessments to enable a person-centred approach to delivering care.
How to work professionally, including their own professional development of those they support and work colleagues
- What a professional relationship is with the person being supported and colleagues.
- How to work with other people and organisations in the interest of the person being supported.
- How to be actively involved in their own personal development plan and, where appropriate, other worker’s personal development plans.
- How to demonstrate the importance of excellent core skills in writing, numbers, and information technology.
- How to develop and sustain a positive attitude and address signs and symptoms of stress in self and other colleagues.
- How to carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others.
- How to access and apply good practice relating to their role.
- How to access and apply specialist knowledge when needed to support performance in the job role.
A Lead Adult Care Worker must be able to:
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers and other professionals.
Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in social care.
Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion.
Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems.
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Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals.
-
Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences.
-
Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication.
-
Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely.
-
Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working.
-
Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working.
Recognise, report, respond to, record unsafe practices, and encourage others to do so
-
Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
-
Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support.
Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition.
Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so.
Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects.
Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support.
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations.
- Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries.
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities.
- Demonstrate continuous professional development.
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others.
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace.
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills.
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes.
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?
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