Adult Care

Lead Practitioner in Adult Care

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Build leadership skills, improve team culture, and strengthen practice.

The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire you to make positive differences to someone’s life when you are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges.

You will have achieved 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. A Lead Practitioner has 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 your 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 be a coach and mentor to others and will have a role in assessing performance and quality of care delivery.

Lead Practitioners in Adult Care may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, day centres, a person’s own home, or some clinical healthcare settings. As well as covering Lead Practitioners in Adult Care 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, usually within their own home, and/or care services.

Qualification level

Duration

17 months

Accreditation

City & Guilds

How we deliver this Apprenticeship:

This Apprenticeship is delivered on a one-to-one basis in your workplace by your own dedicated expert Health and Social Care tutor.

They will meet with you every month (face to face or virtually) to provide teaching and training to help you develop new knowledge and skills and guide you through the programme.

They will then assess your competence by observing you applying the new skills at work and helping you develop a portfolio of evidence to prove you have met the requirements of the Apprenticeship.

Qualifications included in this Apprenticeship:

Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship Standard.

City and Guilds Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care.

Functional Skills:

Level 2 Functional Skills in English and maths (if required).

Progression:

Level 5 Leader in Adult Care Apprenticeship.

Key facts:

The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship is a work-based learning programme aimed at helping you develop new knowledge, skills, and behaviours
The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship is either fully or partly funded by government depending on the size of your organisation
The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship is suitable for and able to be delivered to new and existing staff within your organisation
The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship has been designed by industry experts specifically for the Health and Social Care Sector
The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship will make your staff feel more valued with 80% of employers reporting that Apprenticeships reduce staff turnover

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