Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker | Furness College

Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker

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 will in some circumstances have delegated responsibility for the standard of care provided and may supervise the work of other care workers. This exercising of autonomy and accountability means leading and supporting others to comply with expected standards and behaviours.

Course Content

What Modules will you Study?

Theory:

• Duty of Care
• Professional boundaries and limits, training and expertise
• Relevant statutory Standards and Codes of Practice
• Care Planning Principles
• Creating and Developing a care plan
• Leading and supporting others to ensure compliance with regulations and organisational policies and procedures
• Dignity and respecting diversity and inclusion
• Communicating clearly verbally and non-verbally
• Responsibilities for ensuring confidential information is kept safe
• Recognising abuse and acting on concerns
• Safeguarding Legislation and local strategies
• The process of whistleblowing
• Human Rights
• Codes of Practice
• Champion health and wellbeing
• Professional development of colleagues

Practical:

• Supporting individuals with Care Plans and contributing to the development and ongoing review
• Implement/facilitate specialist assessment
• Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues
• Treat people with respect and dignity and honour their human rights
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in social care
• Communicating clearly and responsibly
• Demonstrate and ensure records and reports are written clearly and concisely
• Lead and support others to keep information safe and preserve confidentiality
• Safeguarding - recognising, reporting and responding
• Champion health and wellbeing for the individuals that are being supported
• Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection
• Promoting healthy eating and wellbeing and managing, monitoring and reporting
• Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others
• Develop Risk Assessments
• Develop own professional development
• Monitoring and supervising others in the workplace
• Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
• Contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes

How long is the course?

This apprenticeship will typically take 18 months to complete.

Where will I learn?

Channelside Campus

How much will this course cost?

Please refer to the College fees policy, for more information please contact Student.Services@furness.ac.uk

Entry Requirements

What are the entry requirements?

Individual employers will set the recruitment and selection criteria for their Apprenticeships.

In order to optimise success, candidates will typically have GCSEs at Grade 4 or Grade C or equivalent in Mathematics and English but can study these subjects during the apprenticeship.