ABBE
Level 3
QN: 610/2141/6
Curriculum Active
ABBE Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support (Maternity)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by ABBE. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 586 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
ABBE
Syllabus Units
25 Units
Guided Hours
586 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Anatomy and physiology for maternity support worker
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to support parents or carers in feeding and keeping their babies clean and safe
- Know the anatomy and physiology of the breast
- Understand physical changes during pregnancy
2
Care for a newborn baby
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines related to caring for newborn babies
- Understand how to meet the physical, social, emotional and developmental needs of newborn babies
- Be able to contribute to the safety of newborn babies within own care
- Be able to feed, bathe and clothe newborn babies in line with local policy and protocol
3
Cleaning, decontamination and waste management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to maintain a clean environment
- Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process
- Understand the importance of good waste management practice
- Be able to undertake the decontamination process
4
Communicate with individuals about promoting their health and wellbeing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the relationship between health, wellbeing and lifestyle
- Understand factors influencing health and wellbeing
- Be able to communicate with individuals and others when promoting health and wellbeing
- Be able to encourage individuals to address issues relating to their health and wellbeing
5
Contribute to Monitoring the Health of Individuals Affected by Health Conditions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand monitoring of the health of individuals affected by health conditions
- Be able to carry out observations of the health of individuals affected by health conditions
- Be able to record and report on observations
- Be able to respond to changes in an individual’s condition
6
Develop and agree individualised care plans for babies and families
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines related to supporting parents/carers to care for babies during their first year
- Understand how to access and gather relevant information for care planning
- Understand the factors which impact on care planning needs
- Be able to develop and agree individualised care plans for babies and families
7
Duty of care in care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
- Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
- Know how to respond to concerns, comments and complaints
- Know how to recognise and respond to adverse events, incidents, errors and near misses
8
Effective communication in care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
- Understand the variety in people’s communication needs and preferences
- Be able to communicate effectively with others
- Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
- Understand the role of independent advocacy services in supporting individuals to communicate their wishes, needs and preferences
- Understand confidentiality in care settings
9
Maintain Infection prevention and control in a care setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand own role in the prevention and control of the spread of infection
- Be able to work in ways to prevent and control the spread of infection
10
Maintaining quality standards in the health sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to provide a quality service within legislation, policies and procedures
- Understand the importance of working with others to provide a quality service
- Know how to monitor quality standards
- Understand the importance of prioritising own workload to reduce risks to quality
11
Person-centred practice, choice and independence
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the application of person-centred practices in care settings
- Understand the importance of individuals’ relationships
- Be able to apply person-centred approaches
- Be able to promote individuals’ rights to make choices
- Be able to promote individuals’ independence
- Understand the role of risk assessments in promoting person-centred approaches, choice and independence
12
Promote effective handling of information in care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand requirements for handling information in care settings
- Be able to implement good practice in handling information
- Be able to support others to handle information
- Be able to support audit processes within own role and responsibilities
13
Promote equality and inclusion in care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
- Be able to work in an inclusive way
- Be able to promote diversity, equality and inclusion
14
Promote Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Care Settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
- Be able to carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
- Know how to reduce the spread of infection
- Know how to move and handle equipment and other objects safely
- Know how to handle hazardous substances and materials
- Be able to promote fire safety in the work setting
- Be able to implement security measures in the work setting
- Know how to manage stress
15
Promote personal development in care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role
- Be able to reflect on practice
- Be able to evaluate own performance
- Be able to agree a personal development plan
- Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
16
Provide advice and information to enable parents to promote the health and well-being of their newborn babies
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines related to providing advice and information to parents/carers on the health and wellbeing of newborn babies
- Understand the requirements for the health and wellbeing of newborn babies and their parents/carers
- Be able to provide advice and information that enables parents/carers to meet the health and wellbeing needs of their newborn babies
17
Provide support to manage pain and discomfort
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand approaches to managing pain and discomfort
- Be able to assist in minimising individuals’ pain or discomfort
- Be able to monitor
- record and report on the management of individuals’ pain or discomfort
18
Responsibilities of a Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
- Be able to carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
- Be able to reduce the spread of infection
19
Safeguarding and protection in care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand principles of safeguarding adults
- Know how to recognise signs and symptoms of ab
- Understand how to respond to suspected or alleged ab
- Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from ab
- Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of ab
- Understand how to recognise and report unsafe practices
- Understand principles for online safety
20
Service improvement within the health sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to evaluate own work and that of others to identify improvements
- Understand how to make constructive suggestions about how services can be improved
- Understand how to discuss and agree improvements with others
- Understand how to make agreed improvements to own work and how to support others to make changes
21
Study skills for Senior Healthcare Support Workers
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is meant by study skills within the context of the role of Senior Healthcare
- Support Worker
- Understand the qualities and abilities required of an independent learner
- Understand how to use investigatory techniques
- Understand plagiarism and the consequences of plagiarism
- Understand how to reference information sources
- Be able to plan and carry out an extended piece of work
- Be able to present an extended piece of work
- Be able to review an extended piece of own work
22
Support individuals with feeding babies
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and good practice guidelines related to feeding babies
- Know how to feed babies in line with evidence-based practice
- Be able to communicate with individuals when assisting with feeding babies
- Be able to support the individual with feeding babies
23
Support parents or carers to interact with and care for their newborn baby
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines related to supporting parents or carers to interact with and care for their newborn baby
- Understand how to support parents or carers to interact and care for their newborn babies
- Be able to support parents or carers in caring for, interacting with and forming bonds with their newborn babies
- Be able to support parents or carers in feeding and keeping their babies clean and safe
24
Understand Mental Ill Health
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the types of mental ill health
- Understand the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social net
- Understand the difficulties individuals with mental ill health may face
- Know signs and symptoms that indicate an individual’s overall wellbeing is deteriorating and respond to the deterioration
- Know how to recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity
- Be able to identify situations of risk to individuals with mental ill-health to self and others
25
Undertake Physiological Measurements
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice for undertaking physiological measurements
- Understand the physiological states that can be measured
- Be able to prepare to take physiological measurements
- Be able to undertake physiological measurements
- Be able to record and report results of physiological measurements
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/2141/6
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- ABBE
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Apr 2023