Diploma in Adult Care Level 4

Mandatory Units

• Module 1 – Working in Partnership: This module explores effective collaboration in adult care settings, covering establishing relationships with colleagues and professionals, setting common objectives, overcoming barriers, and handling conflicts constructively.
• Module 2 – Managing Records and Reports: This module Focuses on legal and organisational requirements, this module addresses responsibilities for recording information and producing reports, ensuring security and confidentiality, using ICT systems, and using records and reports for informed decisions.
• Module 3 – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: This module covers legislation, challenging discrimination, supporting others, accessing resources, modelling inclusive behaviour, and understanding how inclusive practice respects individual beliefs and values.
• Module 4 – Safeguarding and Protection: This module outlines identifying abuse, raising concerns, participating in inter-agency work, supporting others, and understanding roles in safeguarding vulnerable adults.
• Module 5 – Communication Leadership: This module explores communication needs, models, and barriers, including assistive technology, confidentiality, active listening, conveying information effectively, and interacting with individuals using preferred methods.
• Module 6 – Support Planning: This module covers legislation, support plan development, risk evaluation, implementation, review processes, and engaging individuals and others in decision-making and monitoring.
• Module 7 – Personalisation in Care: This module delves into personalized care services, covering models of service provision, legislative drivers, systems supporting personalisation, roles in self-directed support, promotion strategies, and enhancing organisational structures for personalisation.
• Module 8 – Person-Centred Assessment: This module explores theoretical models, assessment tools, legislative effects, partnership in assessments, promoting well-being, and recording assessments in organisational formats.
• Module 9 – Safeguarding Children in Adult Care: This module covers individual and collective responsibilities, conflict resolution, understanding safeguarding protocols, and providing information and support.
• Module 10 – Records and Reports Development: This module emphasizes legal and organisational requirements for recording and reporting, responsibilities, confidentiality, ICT usage, balancing confidentiality with openness, and using records and reports for informed decisions and feedback.
• Module 11 – Professional Practice: This module addresses conflicts between individual rights and duty of care, values application, and quality assurance processes to enhance positive experiences for care service users.
• Module 12 – Personal Development: This module covers role expectations, reflective models, personal development planning, evidence-based practice, and leadership and mentoring skills development.
• Module 13 – Health and Safety Leadership: This module deals with health and safety responsibilities, legislation, compliance, risk management, promoting safe work practices, managing incidents, and supporting others in maintaining health and safety standards.

Optional Units

• Module 14 – Team Management: This module explores team development stages, conflict management, promoting shared purpose, establishing a no-blame culture, and adapting leadership styles as needed.
• Module 15 – Team Leadership: This module focuses on leading and managing teams in health and social care or children and young people’s settings, covering effective team performance, management styles, conflict resolution, fostering a positive culture and shared vision, setting objectives, supporting team members, and managing team performance.
• Module 16 – Health and Social Care Practice Management: This module explores theoretical foundations, legislative effects, social, emotional, and cultural well-being promotion, health promotion, inclusive provision, and effective partnership management.
• Module 17 – Recruitment and Selection: This module delves into recruitment and selection processes, considering legislative and regulatory impacts, specialist expertise requirements, reviewing job descriptions and person specifications, participation in selection processes, and evaluating and improving recruitment methods.
• Module 18 – Induction Management: This module covers induction significance, development of induction programs, supporting practitioners, managing the induction process, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Module 19 – Dysphagia Support: This module covers legislative compliance, recognising dysphagia types and risks, understanding its impact, providing a suitable environment, nutritional intake importance, implementing feeding techniques, and supporting individuals in therapy programs.