CIWM
Level 5
QN: 610/0550/2
Curriculum Active
CIWM (WAMITAB) Level 5 Certificate for Healthcare Waste Manager at a Healthcare Facility
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by CIWM. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 324 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 5
Awarding Body
CIWM
Syllabus Units
27 Units
Guided Hours
324 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Climate change adaptation auditing and reporting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to adapt to climate change
- Understand how to manage energy
- Understand how to manage greenho
- use gas emissions
- Understand how to measure and report greenho
- Understand how to use
- record and report information in relation to climate change
- Manage adaptation to climate change
- Manage energy requirements
- Manage greenho
- Measure and report greenho
- record and communicate data and information in relation to climate change adaption
2
Comply with waste management legislation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand waste management legislation requirements for the organisation
- Understand how to manage compliance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Understand how to communicate
- use and record information in relation to legislative compliance
- Manage waste management legislation requirements for the organisation
- Manage organisational compliance with waste management legislation
3
Conduct a healthcare waste management audit and pre-acceptance audit
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to plan an audit and undertake a pre-acceptance desktop audit
- Understand how to conduct an audit
- Understand how to communicate information in relation to audits
- Understand how to implement and review recommended changes to healthcare waste management system
- Plan an audit and undertake a pre-acceptance desktop audit
- Conduct an audit
- Communicate information in relation to an audit
- Implement and review recommended changes to healthcare waste management system based on audit outcomes
4
Contribute to the development of an environmental management system
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to prepare to develop an Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Understand how to develop and implement an Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Understand how to communicate information relating to the Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Improve environmental performance
- Develop and maintain operations in accordance with an Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Communicate with relevant stakeholders in relation to the Environmental Management System (EMS)
5
Contribute to the development of tender bid documentation and contractor selection
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to prepare tenders in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Understand how to evaluate tender bids in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Understand how to select contracted services
- Prepare tenders in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Evaluate tender bids in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements
- Select contracted services
6
Contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to identify personnel requirements
- Understand how to contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
- Contribute to identifying personnel requirements
- Contribute to the selection of personnel for activities
7
Create effective working relationships
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to create
- develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues
- develop and maintain effective working relationships with external contacts
8
Develop a healthcare waste management policy and plan
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to establish a strategy for developing a healthcare waste management plan
- Understand how to develop a healthcare waste management policy
- Understand how to develop a healthcare waste management plan
- Ensure a healthcare waste management plan meets organisational requirements
- Develop a healthcare waste management policy
- Develop a healthcare waste management plan
- Implement a healthcare waste management plan
- Monitor the implementation of a healthcare waste management plan
9
Implement a healthcare waste management plan
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Implement a healthcare waste management plan
- Manage documentation in relation to a healthcare waste management plan
- monitor and evaluate the performance of a healthcare waste management plan
10
Implement a waste minimisation programme
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the underlying principles of waste minimisation
- Understand how to apply the principles of waste minimisation in the organisation
- Understand the requirements for implementing a waste minimisation programme
- Implement a waste minimisation programmePromote and gain support for a waste minimisation programme
- Evaluate and monitor the implementation of a waste minimisation programme
11
Implement, manage and monitor contracted services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to implement contracted services
- Understand how to manage contracted services
- Understand how to evaluate and review contracted services
- Understand how to re
- solve problems in relation to contracted services
- Understand how to communicate data and information in relation to contracted services
- Implement contracted services
- Manage contract performance
- Evaluate and review contract performance using data to enhance future contracts
- Use and communicate data and information in relation to contracted services
- solve problems arising from the implementation of contracted services
12
Maintain health and safety in the waste management function at healthcare facilities and healthcare waste treatment facilities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures for health and safety and the work environment
- Understand how to implement policies and procedures for health and safety at a healthcare facility and healthcare waste treatment facility
- Implement policies and procedures for health and safety at a healthcare facility and healthcare waste treatment facility
- Monitor and maintain legislative compliance for health and safety
- Manage occupational hazards
13
Manage a budget and support the efficient use of resources at a healthcare waste management facility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to prepare a budget at a healthcare waste management facility
- Understand how to manage a budget at a healthcare waste management facility
- Understand how to make recommendations for the use of resources at a healthcare waste management facility
- Understand how to contribute to the control of resources at a healthcare waste facility
- Understand how to communicate with, involve and motivate others in relation to the use of resources at a healthcare waste facility
- Prepare a budget within the limits of own responsibility
- Manage a budget within the limits of own responsibility
- Make recommendations for the use of resources
- Contribute to the control of resources
- Communicate with, involve and motivate others in relation to the use of resources at a healthcare waste facility
14
Manage environmental incidents and emergencies
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to respond to incidents and emergencies
- Understand how to manage incidents and emergencies
- Understand how to develop and maintain effective systems for responding to incidents and emergencies
- Understand how to maintain health and safety during and after incident or emergency
- Understand how to use and communicate data in relation to incidents and emergencies
- Respond to incidents and emergencies
- Manage incidents and emergencies
- Develop and maintain effective systems for responding to emergencies
- Maintain health and safety during and after incident or emergency
- Implement effective communication and appropriate use of data and records
15
Manage improvements to waste management operations and practices based on principles of sustainability
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of sustainable waste and resource management
- Understand the waste hierarchy and its application in sustainable waste and resource management
- Understand how to manage improvements to sustainable waste and resource management operations
- Manage improvements to waste management operations
- Maintain the levels of facility operation in accordance with granted authorisations
- Contribute to the sustainable development of waste management operations
16
Manage maintenance and other engineering operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Manage maintenance and other engineering operations
- Use and communicate data and information
- solve problems that could affect maintenance and other operation
17
Manage sharps waste safely at a healthcare facility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to manage sharps waste
- Understand how to use
- record and communicate data and information in relation to sharps waste
- Manage sharps waste
- record and communicate data and information
- solve problems which arise from managing sharps waste
18
Manage site operations for the treatment of infectious healthcare waste at a healthcare facility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Manage treatment operations for waste
- Control work activities on sites treating waste
- record and communicate data and information
- solve problems which arise from managing site operations for the treatment of waste
19
Manage the collection of hazardous and non-hazardous waste from a healthcare facility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the systems and procedures for waste identification, classification and collection
- Understand how to maintain records associated with waste identification, classification and collection
- Understand how to re
- solve problems which arise from waste identification and collection and promote the continual improvement
- Implement systems and procedures for waste identification, classification and collection
- Waste identification, sorting and collection
- Maintain records associated with waste identification, classification and collection
20
Manage the disposal of outputs and residues from infectious healthcare waste treatment facilities and transport operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Manage the transfer of outputs and the disposal of residues from waste treatment and recovery
- record and communicate data and information
- solve problems which arise from the transfer of outputs and disposal of residues from waste treatment and recovery
- solve problems which arise from managing site operations for the treatment of waste
21
Manage the environmental impact of work activities at healthcare facilities, treatment facilities, and transport operations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to ensure the protection of the environment
- Understand the underpinning regulations, procedures and requirements related to environmental protection
- Implement systems to identify and deal with risks to the environment
- Develop a work environment that promotes responsibility for environmental well-being
- communicate, and record data and information
- solve problems that could affect the environment
22
Manage the movement, sorting and storage of hazardous and non-hazardous waste
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to implement systems and procedures for hazardous and non-hazardous waste movement, sorting, and storage
- Manage the risks associated with hazardous and non-hazardous waste movement, sorting, and storage
- Implement systems and procedures for movement and temporary storage of waste
- Implement systems and procedures for internal transport and waste storage
- Implement systems and procedures for interaction with external waste contractor
- record and communicate data and information in relation to hazardous and non-hazardous waste movement, sorting, and storage
- solve problems which arise from waste management and promote the continual improvement
23
Manage the reception of infectious wastes at a healthcare waste treatment facility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Manage the reception of waste
- record and communicate data and information
- solve problems which arise from managing the reception of waste
24
Manage waste transport operations for the transfer of hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare waste at a healthcare facility
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to manage healthcare waste transfer
- Understand how to organise a waste transfer
- Understand how to organise waste transportation
- Understand how to record and communicate data and information in relation to waste transfer
- Understand how to re
- solve problems which arise from managing the reception of waste
- Manage healthcare waste transfer
- Organise the waste transfer
- Organise the waste transportation
- Record and communicate data and information
25
Prepare and deliver in-house training
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to prepare in-ho
- use training
- Understand how to deliver in-ho
- Understand how to implement an in-ho
- use training programme
- Understand how to evaluate in-ho
- Assess organisational training and development needs
- Define the training objective
- Design the training programme
- Adopt training principles for adults
- Develop the training programme
- Prepare to deliver a training programme
- Implement the training programme
- Evaluate the training programme
26
Prepare for an inspection visit
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to prepare for an inspection
- Understand organisational policies, procedures and current legislation in relation to an inspection visit
- Understand how to manage key site personnel and communicate effectively in relation to an inspection visit
- Prepare for an inspection visit
- Follow organisational policies, procedures and current legislation for inspection visits
- Manage key site personnel and communicate effectively
27
Review the performance of teams and individuals
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how organisational context can impact work plans
- Understand how to work plan
- Understand how to communicate with individuals and teams regarding work plans
- Understand how to allocate work through effective delegation
- Understand how to involve and motivate team members
- Understand how to provide support to individuals
- Understand the importance of performance reviews in achieving continuous improvement
- Understand how to handle information in relation to performance reviews
- Allocate work to teams and individuals
- Agree objectives and work plans with teams and individuals
- Provide feedback to teams and individuals on their performance
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/0550/2
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- CIWM
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Mar 2022