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Loan qualifying qualifications
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce - Early Years (Management)
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
The Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce (England) and the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Children's Care, Learning and Development (Wales and Northern Ireland) are the ideal qualifications if you work as a senior practitioner, deputy manager or assistant manager within Early Years and Children and Young Peoples’ settings, including:
- Integrated children’s centres
- Approved home care
- Out of school settings
- Day nurseries or crèches
- Family centres
- Cylchoedd meithrin
- Playgroups.
This qualification has been designed to:
- extend and enrich learner understanding of the early years sector
- develop and enhance the practical leadership and management knowledge and skills required to manage change, lead service improvement and to embed best practice models
- develop higher level thinking skills including reflection and critical analysis
- encourage learners to value continued learning and remain in the learning process
- cultivate in-depth knowledge of developmental and learning theory
- establish good practice and knowledge in relation to needs based assessment and planning
Mandatory Units
- Lead and manage a team within a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Support children’s care, learning and development in the early years
- Understand children and young person’s development
- Lead practice that supports positive outcomes for child and young person development
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young people
- Professional practice in children’s care, learning and development
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Use and develop systems that promote comm unication
- Promote professional development
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce - Early Years (Advanced Practice)
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
The Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for the Children and Young People's Workforce (England) and the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Children's Care, Learning and Development are the ideal qualifications if you work as a senior practitioner, deputy manager or assistant manager within Early Years and Children and Young Peoples’ settings, including:
- Integrated children’s centres
- Approved home care
- Out of school settings
- Day nurseries or crèches
- Family centres
- Cylchoedd meithrin
- Playgroups.
This qualification has been designed to:
- extend and enrich learner understanding of the early years sector
- develop and enhance the practical leadership and management knowledge and skills required to manage change, lead service improvement and to embed best practice models
- develop higher level thinking skills including reflection and critical analysis
- encourage learners to value continued learning and remain in the learning process
- cultivate in-depth knowledge of developmental and learning theory
- establish good practice and knowledge in relation to needs based assessment and planning
Mandatory Units
- Support children’s care, learning and development in the early years
- Understand children and young person’s development
- Lead practice that supports positive outcomes for child and young person development
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young people
- Professional practice in children’s care, learning and development
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Use and develop systems that promote communication
- Promote professional development
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children's and Young People's Services
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
The Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services is a qualification designed to give learners the opportunity to build both managerial and care skills.
It fulfils the regulatory requirement for those looking to become managers of children's homes or adults residential and domiciliary services.
It fulfils the regulatory requirement for those looking to become managers of children's homes or adults residential and domiciliary services.
This qualification is for those already working in health and social care, assistant or deputy managers or managers who have not yet achieved a vocational qualification at this level. This level will suit you if you are responsible for running a facility that provides services for vulnerable children, adults or both. You might be an assistant or deputy manager, or a manager who has not yet achieved a recognised vocational qualification at this level. The qualification can lead to be a manager of adult residential and domiciliary services or children's homes you need to have this qualification.
Contents and structure:
You will cover a number of areas, such as:
- the assessment of individual needs
- planning and review of care programmes
- procurement and tendering
- risk management
- effective governance
- domiciliary care management
THE PATHWAYS:
- Children and Young People’s Residential Management
- Children and Young People’s Management
- Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice
- Adult’s Residential Management
- Adult’s management
- Adult’s Advanced Practice
This is the qualification required for managers of adult residential and domiciliary services or children's homes.
The Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services can also help you work in roles such as:
- Adult nurse
- Care home manager
- Care worker
- Children's nurse
- Health promotion / education specialist
- Health service manager
- Learning disability nurse
- Mental health nurse
- Residential warden
- Social worker
- Supervisor / team leader
- Volunteer manager
- Youth and community worker.
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
The Level 5 Diploma is the required qualification for learners wanting to work in Residential Childcare in a management role. This is the required qualification for learners wanting to work in residential care with children in a management role. New managers will need to complete the qualification within three years of employment. This qualification will be the accepted qualification for registration and regulation where appropriate and can demonstrate continuing professional development. This qualification has been developed as the result of a review of the existing residential childcare qualifications and provision driven by the Secretary of State for Children and Families in light of the recent reports highlighting the shortfalls in residential childcare. It has been developed by the Department for Education, Skills for Care and Development and the employers in the industry.
Contents and structure:
MANDATORY
Core knowledge
- Understand children and young people’s development in residential childcare
- Understand support for children and young people who are vulnerable and disadvantaged
Core skills
- Lead and manage a team within a residential childcare setting
- Lead practice to support the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in residential childcare
- Lead practice for communication and information management in residential childcare settings
- Manage risk in residential childcare
- Lead and manage group living in residential childcare
- Lead a service that can support children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse
Achieving outcomes
- Lead practice to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people in residential childcare
- Implement a Positive Relationship Policy in residential childcare
- Lead practice to support the well-being and resilience of children and young people in residential childcare
- Lead practice in safe use of digital, internet and mobile technology with children and young people
Professional practice
- Undertake professional development in residential childcare settings
- Lead practice to promote the rights, diversity and equality of children and young people in residential childcare
- Lead networks and multi-agency work to benefit children and young people in residential childcare
Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care (England)
Price: £1,999.00+ vat
This qualification allows learners to learn, develop and practise the skills required for employment and/or career progression in Adult Care in England. The Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care (England) is specifically designed for learners wanting to work in Adult Social Care in England in the following roles:
- Community Care /Support Officers
- Community Care /Support Officers - office based
- Social Care Assessor
- Care Assessment Officer
- Community Care Assessment Officer
- Social Services Officer
- Social Care Assistant
- Social Work Assistants
- Brokerage Worker
- OT Assistant
- Occupational Assessment Officer
- Physiotherapy Assistant
- Rehabilitation and Re-ablement Assistant
- Independence Support Assistant
- Re-ablement Support Workers/Officer
- Telecare Assistant
- Assistive Technology Co-ordinator/Officer
Learners may progress into employment or to the following City & Guilds qualifications:
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children’s and Yung People’s Services (Adults Residential Management) (England)
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children’s and Yung People’s Services (Adults Management) (England)
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children’s and Yung People’s Services (Adults Advanced Practice) (England)
- This qualification will be the accepted qualification for registration and regulation where appropriate and can demonstrate continuing professional development.
Level 3 Diploma Children and Young People's Workforce
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
The Level 3 diploma is aimed at those people already working in the Children and Young People sector. For example, you may be working as a childminder, day care supervisor, SureStart worker, community nursery nurse or as a learning mentor. You may or may not have some supervisory responsibilities. You want to be in sole charge of children, for example managing a room in a nursery.
This qualification meets the needs of candidates who work or want to work in health or social care settings or with children or young people in a wide range of settings, for example in the roles of:
• Care Worker
• Childminder
• Early Years Practitioner
• Nursery Nurse
• Education Welfare Officer
• Connexions Worker
• Learning Mentor
• Careers Adviser
• Youth and Community Worker
• Foster Carer
• Speech and Language Therapist
This qualification replaces the City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ and Certificate in Children’s Care, Learning and Development.
Within the Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce, there are three pathways:
- Early Years pathway – suitable for, eg day care settings practitioners
- Children’s Social Care pathway – suitable for, eg practitioners in residential care
- Learning Development and Support Services pathway – suitable for, eg Connexions staff and learning mentors.
Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Practitioner (Early Years Educator)
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
Learners interested in the Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Practitioner (Early Years Educator) (Work Based) will be required to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of early years education and care, including that they can support and promote children's early education and development, plan and provide effective care, teaching and learning that enables children to progress and prepares them for school, make accurate and productive use of assessment, develop effective and informed practice, safeguard and promote the health, safety and welfare of children, work in partnership with the key person, colleagues, parents and/or carers or other professionals.
Compulsory topics include:
• child development
• professional development
• safeguarding children
• diversity, equality and inclusion
• positive behaviour and transitions
• working in partnership
• promoting children’s speech, language and communication
• theories underpinning practice
• supporting children’s activities.
Note: Level 3 Early Years Educator Literacy & Numeracy Consultation – government response
The Department for Education has now published the outcomes of the recent consultation into the literacy and numeracy requirements for Level 3 Early Years Educator (EYE) staff In England.
The requirement for Level 3 Early Years Educators to hold an approved English and mathematics qualification has been broadened to include other suitable level 2 qualifications, including Functional Skills. This will take effect from 3rd of April 2017. This means that GCSEs are not the only qualifications which will be recognised as meeting the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS) requirement to count in staff:child ratios and be recognised as Early Years Educators in the workplace. The revised Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS) will come in to force from the 3rd of April 2017 and is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2
Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce (Residential Childcare)
Reference Link: 60152680
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
The Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England) and the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England) are new qualifications designed to support learners who want to work in a care or management role in residential childcare and who have not previously achieved an existing relevant qualification. From 05 January 2015 learners who want to work in residential childcare will need to register on one of these two Diplomas.
What do the qualifications cover?
Mandatory
Core knowledge
Understand the development of children and young people in residential childcare
Understand how to safeguard and protect children and young people in residential childcare
Understand how to support children and young people who have experienced harm or abuse
Core knowledge
Understand the development of children and young people in residential childcare
Understand how to safeguard and protect children and young people in residential childcare
Understand how to support children and young people who have experienced harm or abuse
Core skills
Promote effective communication and information handling in residential childcare settings
Promote effective communication and information handling in residential childcare settings
Support risk management in residential childcare
Assessment and planning with children and young people in residential childcare
Support group living in residential childcare
Achieving outcomes
Understand how to support positive outcomes for children and young people in residential childcare
Support attachment and positive relationships for children and young people in residential childcare
Support the well-being and resilience of children and young people in residential childcare
Support children and young people in residential childcare to achieve their learning potential
Support children and young people in residential childcare to manage their health
Support the development of socially aware behaviour with children and young people in residential childcare
Professional practice
Engage in professional development in residential childcare settings
Support the rights, diversity and equality of children and young people in residential childcare
Participate in teams to benefit children and young people in residential childcare
What opportunities for progression are there?
Achieving outcomes
Understand how to support positive outcomes for children and young people in residential childcare
Support attachment and positive relationships for children and young people in residential childcare
Support the well-being and resilience of children and young people in residential childcare
Support children and young people in residential childcare to achieve their learning potential
Support children and young people in residential childcare to manage their health
Support the development of socially aware behaviour with children and young people in residential childcare
Professional practice
Engage in professional development in residential childcare settings
Support the rights, diversity and equality of children and young people in residential childcare
Participate in teams to benefit children and young people in residential childcare
What opportunities for progression are there?
Learners may progress onto the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England) (4340-51). New residential care workers will need to achieve the qualification within two years from employment. This qualification will be the accepted qualification for registration and regulation where appropriate and can demonstrate continuing professional development. Who did we develop the qualification with? This qualification has been developed as the result of a review of the existing residential childcare qualifications and provision driven by the Secretary of State for Children and Families in light of the recent reports highlighting the shortfalls in residential childcare. It has been developed by the Department for Education, Skills for Care and Development and the employers in the industry.
Is it part of an apprenticeship framework or initiative?
This qualification will form part of the Children and Young People's Workforce Residential Care Pathway (England) Apprenticeship available from January 2015.
*From January 2018 - Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care
Price: £1,999.00 + vat
Introduction
The Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care is an occupational qualification for learners who work in Adult Care Settings in England. The qualification is linked to the Lead Adult Care Worker Trailblazer Apprenticeship and is applicable to variety of roles, where workers have key responsibilities for delivery of care and support and /or a level of supervisory responsibility for others such as:
- Lead Adult Care Worker
- Lead Personal Assistant
- Key Worker
- Domiciliary Care Worker
- Senior Care Assistant
- Support Worker
This qualification consists of mandatory units covering core knowledge and skills competencies with optional specialisms which can be are combined in flexible ways to reflect the real working context of different learners.
The content of the mandatory units covers person centred approaches, communication, personal development, equality and inclusion, handling information, duty of care, responsibilities of the role, safeguarding, and, health, safety and wellbeing.
The optional units are designed to meet the requirements of a range of Adult Care services and to support the delivery of the Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Standard.
Unit 366 Knowledge, skills and behaviour expected of a lead adult care worker will be particularly useful for those learners completing this qualification as part of an apprenticeship.
This qualification allows candidates to learn, develop and demonstrate the skills and knowledge required for employment and/or career progression in Adult Care within a role which has some autonomy, delegated responsibility or where there may be a need for supervision of others.
Learners can progress to the City & Guilds level 4 Diploma in Adult Care (4222‐34) or the City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Adult Care (3080‐50) providing they are in an appropriate job role. Opportunities may also be available to progress to an apprenticeships for the Lead Practitioner In Adult Care or Leader in Adult Care, or to higher education programmes, providing all entry requirements are met.
Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care (Adults) - *FINAL REGISTRATION 31/12/2017
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