Who is the programme for?

Lead Adult Care Workers are the frontline staff who help adults with care and support needs to achieve their personal goals and live as independently and safely as possible, enabling them to have control and choice in their lives. In addition, Lead Adult Care Workers have responsibility for providing supervision, frontline leadership, guidance and direction for others, or working autonomously, exercising judgement and accountability.

As a Lead Adult Care Worker you will make a positive difference to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional or intellectual challenges. You will be expected to exercise judgement and take appropriate action to support individuals to maintain their independence, dignity and control. By providing leadership, guidance and direction at the frontline of care delivery you will be instrumental in improving the health and wellbeing of those receiving care and support.

Lead Adult Care Workers may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, day centres or some clinical healthcare settings.

What will the Apprentice learn?

Knowledge

•  Their job roles and other worker roles relevant to the context of the service in which they are working
• 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 lead and support others to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures

Skills

• Treat people with respect and dignity and honour their human rights
• Communicate clearly and responsibly
• Support individuals to remain safe from harm (Safeguarding)
• Champion health and wellbeing for the individuals they support
• Work professionally and seek to develop their own professional development

Behaviours

• Demonstrate continuous professional development
• Communicate clearly both verbally and non-verbally and able to influence others to maximise the quality of interaction
• The importance of respecting diversity, the principles of inclusion and treating everyone fairly
• How to address and resolve any dilemmas they may face between a person’s rights and their safety
• How to use and promote with others where relevant, risk assessments to enable a person centred approach to delivering care

How long will the programme take and what is involved?

This programme is delivered over 18 months. It incorporates the Apprenticeship Standard Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care.

Individuals without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end-point assessment.

Apprentices are required to complete 20% off the job. Commitment is important, as the programme will be tightly structured. The following activities can be expected as part of the individual learning process:

• Attending virtual classrooms
• Contributing to forums
• Completing assignments
• Guided Reading
• Reflective diaries
• Shadowing other members of the team
• Participating in audits
• Meetings
• Feedback/learning sessions with some of the people the learner supports

Apprentices will meet with their assessors once a month to review progress and access support and guidance. Apprentices will also have access to communities of practice and will be required to contribute and learn from these communities as part of the assessment process. They will have the opportunity to collaborate and learn from peers undertaking similar pathways. Apprentices will be required to actively participate in virtual classrooms.

End point assessment:

There will be an external assessment at the end of the programme once the apprentice has achieved the ‘gateway’ requirements. This includes achieving the Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care.

End-point Assessment Methods, Timescales & Location

• Situational judgement test
• Professional Discussion.

The end-point assessment must be completed over a maximum total assessment time of two days, within an EPA period lasting typically for three months after the apprentice has met the EPA gateway requirements.

What will the apprentice achieve?

• Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care
• Level 2 English and Maths (If not completed prior to starting the programme).

Pathways Available

• Dementia
• Mental Health
• Learning Disabilities

Click here to see our specialist pathways – Specialist Pathway.pdf

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