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Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship (Level 4)

Designed for individuals who are interested in pursuing a career in the adult care sector. This includes those who are new to the field, as well as those who are already working in adult care and wish to develop their skills and knowledge further. Apprenticeships in adult care are suitable for a range of roles, including care assistants, support workers, senior care workers, and care coordinators. 

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“Leading frontline care for vulnerable adults within their own homes, day care centres, residential and nursing homes and other healthcare settings.”

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What is it about?
This apprenticeship provides individuals with an ideal entry into the occupation of adult care and supports progression within this sector. The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges. They 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.

Responsibilities
They will have specialist skills and knowledge in their area of responsibilities which will allow them to lead in areas such as care needs assessment, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and enablement, telecare and assistive technology. They will be a coach and mentor to others and will have a role in assessing performance and quality of care delivery

Funding
This apprenticeship standard has been allocated a maximum funding cap of £7,000 which is the anticipated full cost for delivering this standard and the end point assessment.

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours (KSBs)

KSBs are the core attributes that you must have as an apprentice in order to be competent in the occupation that you’re working in. They sit alongside your technical studies and exams and are the main assessment methods used in an end point assessment (EPA). Think of it like the soft skills you see in the workplace.

  • Knowledge – the information, technical detail, and ‘know-how’ that someone needs to have and understand to successfully carry out the duties. Some knowledge will be occupation-specific, whereas some may be more generic.
  • Skills – the practical application of knowledge needed to successfully undertake the duties. They are learnt through on- and/or off-the-job training or experience.
  • Behaviours – mindsets, attitudes or approaches needed for competence. Whilst these can be innate or instinctive, they can also be learnt. Behaviours tend to be very transferable. They may be more similar across occupations than knowledge and skills. For example, team worker, adaptable and professional.

Knowledge

  • Tasks and responsibilities
  • Dignity and human rights
  • Communication
  • Safeguarding
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Professional development

Skills

  • Tasks and responsibilities
  • Dignity and human rights
  • Communication
  • Safeguarding
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Professional development

Behaviours

  •  Care
  • Compassion
  • Courage
  • Communication
  • Competence
  • Commitment
  • Apply professional judgement, standards and codes of practice relevant to the role
  • Develop and sustain professional relationships with others
  • Identify and access specialist help required to carry out role
  • Lead the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
  • Mentor colleagues to encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
  • Contribute to the implementation of processes to implement and review support plans
  • Provide leadership and mentoring to others for whom they are responsible
  • Apply risk management policies
  • Contribute to the quality assurance of the service provided
  • Implement a culture that actively promotes dignity and respects diversity and inclusion
  • Model high levels of empathy, understanding and compassion
  • Model effective communication skills
  • Identify and address barriers to communication using appropriate resources
  • Apply organisational processes to record, maintain, store and share information
  • Provide meaningful information to support people to make informed choices
  • Apply and support others to adhere to safeguarding procedures
  • Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to safeguarding concerns
  • Apply person centred approaches to promote health and wellbeing
  • Collaborate with external partners to achieve best outcomes in health and wellbeing
  • Evaluate own practice and access identified development opportunities
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of own leadership, mentoring and supervision skills and take steps to enhance performance
  • Value individuals to develop effective teams in order to achieve best outcomes
  • Contribute to the development of an effective learning culture
  • Lead robust, values-based recruitment and selection processes
  • Contribute to the induction process by developing the knowledge of individuals within their role
  • Lead and support others in professional development through personal development plans, supervision, reflective practice, research, evidence based practice and access to learning and development opportunities

End-point assessment (EPA) is the final stage of your apprenticeship. It is an impartial assessment of the skills, knowledge and behaviours developed, outlined in the apprenticeship standard.

Observation of Practice

  • 60 minute observation period, 15 minute post-observation questioning
  • Observation can be done remote or in-person
  • Minimum of 3 questions in the questioning period
  • Observation of Practice to demonstrate skills, behaviour and leadership.

Portfolio Based Interview

  • 90 minute duration
  • Showcase portfolio will underpin the discussion.
  • The independent assessor will ask the apprentice questions in relation to knowledge, skills and behaviours

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