Our Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care (RQF) is an accredited qualification designed to provide comprehensive knowledge and practical skills essential for various aspects of adult care. Throughout the course, you will delve into key subjects vital for assessing performance and delivering high-quality care in adult social care environments.
Tailored for professionals in the health and social care sector, particularly those in leadership roles seeking to advance their skills, the program comprises both mandatory and optional units. These units lay the foundation for theoretical understanding and offer practical insights for higher-level practice and management roles.
The course covers a wide array of topics, including effective collaboration, record and report management, promotion of equality, diversity, and inclusion, safeguarding and protection, leadership in communication, support planning, personalised care, and person-centred assessment, among others.
To attain this qualification, active engagement in the health and social care sector, ideally in a lead practitioner capacity, is essential. The educational journey seamlessly combines theoretical learning with practical application. Theoretical elements are presented via remote or in-person sessions, enriched with assignments, workbooks, and additional materials. Practical abilities are honed through on-the-job observations under the guidance of experienced instructors.
Upon completion, you will have acquired a wealth of knowledge and skills across various facets of adult care, improving your ability to you to positively influence the support provided to individuals in your professional care settings.
Course Details
Qualification Name: Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care (RQF)
Accreditation: iCQ OfQual recognised qualification
OfQual Qualification Accreditation Number (QAN): 603/3181/1
Average time to completion: 7 to 15 months
Course Content
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.
Enrolment and Delivery
Please use our enquiry form or contact us by telephone if you have any queries about this qualification or would like to express an interest to enrol onto this course. A member of our team will be happy to answer any questions, help to make sure this course is right for you and/or your staff team, and talk you through what is involved in enrolment and course completion.
Upon enrolment, you will be assigned a personal tutor who will assist you through achieving successful and meaningful completion of your award. All of the electronic resources, workbooks and assignments required for you to complete the course will be emailed to you for you to commence working with at a time of your convenience. Your tutor will work with you to set targets and milestones that are achievable for you and will check in with you regularly, providing assistance whenever necessary.
On successful completion of your award, your assessor will coordinate with the awarding body for the issuance of your certificates, which will be promptly delivered to you.
Pricing
Including Assignment, Workbook and Resources:
The full cost of this qualification is £1400 per person which is duly invoiced at the point of enrolment.
Upon completion and certification of this qualification, the certificate(s) for you/your staff members will be sent to you.
Quality Assurance
This Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care is accredited to the Regulated Qualification Framework (RQF), the new framework for creating and accrediting qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (OfQual) regulates this qualification, examinations and assessments in England.
Complete Training is an approved registered centre with the OFQUAL regulated awarding organisation ‘I Can Qualify‘ (iCQ). All our qualifications are subject to both internal and external quality assurance processes to ensure we meet all of the awarding body specifications. All course materials are developed to meet the specific outcomes that make up the full qualification.
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