Focus Awards
Level 4
QN: 603/3963/9
Curriculum Active
Focus Awards Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care (RQF)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Focus Awards. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1039 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 4
Awarding Body
Focus Awards
Syllabus Units
39 Units
Guided Hours
1039 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Contribute to recruitment and selection in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand legislation, regulation and organisation requirements for recruitment and selection
- Understand the recruitment and selection processes
- Be able to contribute to the recruitment and selection process in own setting
- Be able to evaluate the recruitment and selection processes in own setting
2
Develop, implement and review reablement plans
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand reablement
- Understand the importance of activities of daily living for individuals
- Understand resources available to support reablement
- Be able to contribute to the development of plans for reablement.
- Be able to implement a reablement plan
- Be able to monitor and review the reablement plan
3
Develop, maintain and use records and reports
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the legal and organisational requirements for recording information and providing reports
- Be able to prepare professional records and reports that meet legal requirements, and agreed ways of working
- Be able to use records and reports to inform judgements and decisions
4
Facilitate person-centred assessment to support well-being
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand theories and principles of assessment
- Be able to work in partnership with an individual and others to facilitate person-centred assessment
- Be able to carry out person-centred assessment that promotes well-being
5
Facilitate support planning to ensure positive outcomes for individuals and to support well- being
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the theories and principles that underpin outcome- based practice
- Be able to develop a support plan to meet the identified needs of an individual
- Understand the value of assistive living technology in developing a support plan
- Be able to facilitate the implementation of support plans in partnership with the individual and others
- Be able to facilitate a person-centred review of support plans in partnership with the individual and others
6
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand and use the Mental Capacity Act, Provide Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)
- Work with the decision maker, Challenge decisions made by the decision maker
- Work with people who lack capacity
- Work with accommodation and care review referrals
- Work with serious medical treatment referrals
- Work with adult protection referrals, Construct an IMCA written report that meets statutory requirements
7
Lead an effective team in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand different styles of leadership and management
- Understand the attributes of effective team performance
- Understand how to support team development
- Understand how to support positive value- based culture within a team
- Be able to lead an effective team
- Be able to evaluate team performance
8
Lead communication in adult care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand communication needs and the factors affecting them
- Understand how to support the use of assistive technology to enhance communication
- Be able to interact with individuals
- Be able to convey information to individuals and others
- Understand the importance of confidentiality in interactions with individuals
9
Lead health and safety in adult care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand own responsibilities and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
- Understand how to carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
- Be able to work safely in care settings
- Be able to manage risk
- Be able to support others to work safely in relation to health and safety
10
Lead inclusive practice in adult care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand equality, diversity and inclusion
- Understand how inclusive practice supports equality and diversity
- Understand how to promote equality, diversity and inclusion
- Be able to work in a way that supports equality and diversity
11
Lead learning and development in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of learning and development for safe and effective practice
- Understand principles of learning and development in adult care
- Be able to plan for learning and development
- Be able to implement learning and development plans
- Be able to evaluate learning and development plans
12
Lead practice in providing information, advice and guidance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, frameworks and theories that affect the delivery of information, advice and guidance services
- Understand the importance of providing accurate information, advice and guidance through person-centred approaches
- Understand provision of information, advice and guidance in own practice
- Be able to provide accurate and meaningful information, advice and guidance that supports individuals to make informed choices
- Be able to review and evaluate practice in providing information, advice and guidance
13
Lead practice to promote quality assurance in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the regulatory frame
- work in adult care
- Understand factors that impact the quality of service provision
- Understand approaches to quality management in adult care
- Be able to contribute to setting quality standards for service provision
- Be able to lead practice to promote quality standards
14
Lead practice to support individuals to access and engage in education, training or employment (ETE)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how legislation, statutory frameworks and codes of practice support an individual to access and engage in education, training and employment
- Understand support available to individuals accessing education, training or employment
- Be able to lead practice to support individuals to access and engage in education, training and employment
- Be able to evaluate engagement in education, training or employment
15
Manage induction in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand induction in adult care services
- Be able to develop an induction programme
- Be able to support the implementation of induction processes in own setting
- Be able to evaluate the induction process in own setting
16
Manage personal and professional behaviour in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the values, principles and standards in relation to personal and professional behaviour in adult care
- Understand the impacts of personal and professional behaviour
- Be able to evaluate own personal and professional behaviour
- Be able to support others to reflect on their own personal and professional behaviour
17
Manage physical resources
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of sustainability when using physical resources
- Be able to identify resource requirements for own area of responsibility
- Be able to obtain required resources for own area of responsibility
- Be able to monitor and review the quality and usage of resources in own area of responsibility
18
Mentoring in adult social care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to mentoring in social care
- Understand mentoring in adult care
- Understand techniques for establishing a mentoring relationship
- Be able to agree goals and outcomes in partnership with the mentee
- Be able to mentor in adult care
- Be able to review the progress and achievements of a mentee in partnership with them
- Be able to support continuous improvement
19
Personal development in adult care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what is required to be competent in own work role
- Be able to reflect on practice
- Be able to evaluate own performance
- Be able to use reflective practice to contribute to personal development
- Be able to agree a personal development plan
- Be able to use evidence-based practice
20
Professional practice in adult care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand theories, values, principles and statutory frameworks that underpin practice within care
- Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
- Understand how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights to choice and control and the duty of care
- Be able to apply values, principles and statutory frameworks that underpin service provision in own area of work
21
Professional supervision in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand professional supervision in adult care
- Understand the role of professional supervision in performance management
- Understand conflict management in relation to professional supervision
- Be able to provide professional supervision
22
Promote innovation and change in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the culture of an organisation
- Understand theories of change management
- Be able to support innovation and change
23
Promote nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what makes up a balanced diet.
- Understand nutritional guidelines.
- Be able to promote nutrition in health and social care settings.
- Be able to promote hydration in health and social care settings.
- Understand how to prevent malnutrition in health and social care settings.
- Be able to carry out nutritional screening in health and social care settings.
- Be able to monitor and record nutrition and hydration needs with individuals in health and social care settings.
- Understand factors that affect special dietary requirements in health and social care settings.
24
Providing Independent Advocacy to Adults
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Provide Independent Advocacy support to adults in a range of settings, Treat the individual receiving Advocacy support as an individual, Assist the individual receiving Advocacy support to explore choices and potential consequences
- Support adults through a range of meetings
25
Safeguard children and young people who are present in the adult care sector
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the responsibility to safeguard children and young people who are present in an adult care work setting
- Be able to develop the understanding of others about safeguarding children and young people
- Understand how to address conflicts and dilemmas associated with safeguarding children and young people
26
Service improvement and development in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand drivers for service improvement and development
- Understand systems and processes for improving and developing services
- Be able to plan and implement improvement and development of the service
- Be able to review and evaluate service improvement and development
27
Specialist areas of care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of a condition on the well-being of individuals within own service
- Understand the impact of a condition within own specialist area of practice on the care of individuals
- Understand how current research, policy and guidance informs practice in own specialist area of care
- Understand how to access services in order to meet the needs of individuals in own service
- Be able to contribute to the implementation of processes in relation to support planning within own specialist area of care
- Be able to support professional development of others in relation to own specialist area of care practice
- Be able to implement a plan to improve outcomes-based person-centred practice within own specialist area of care
28
Support carers to meet the care needs of individuals
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols in relation to supporting individuals in the community
- Understand why individuals require support
- Understand how to ensure individuals receive the support they need from carers
- Be able to support carers to meet the care needs of individuals
29
Support individuals to access and manage direct payments
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of direct payments
- Be able to support individuals to decide whether to use direct payments
- Be able to provide support to select services to be purchased with direct payments
- Be able to provide support for completing paper
- work associated with direct payments
- Understand how to address difficulties, dilemmas and conflicts relating to direct payments
- Be able to contribute to reviewing the support provided through direct payments
- Be able to contribute to reviewing the management of direct payments
30
Support individuals to access and use services and facilities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand factors that influence individuals’ access to services and facilities
- Be able to support individuals to select services and facilities
- Be able to support individuals to access and use services and facilities
- Be able to support individuals’ to review their access to and use of services and facilities
31
Support individuals to access housing and accommodation services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand support available to access housing and accommodation services
- Be able to work with individuals to identify housing and accommodation services that meet their needs
- Be able to work with individuals to plan to access housing and accommodation services
- Be able to work with individuals to access housing and accommodation services
- Be able to work with housing and accommodation services to meet the needs of individuals
- Be able to contribute to the review of housing and accommodation services for individuals
32
Support the development of community partnerships
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of community partnerships
- Be able to identify where community partnerships could inform and support practice
- Be able to bring people together to set up community partnerships
- Be able to support the setting up of community partnerships
- Be able to contribute to the running of community partnerships
- Be able to contribute to the review of community partnerships
33
Support the spiritual wellbeing of individuals
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of spirituality for individuals
- Be able to assess the spiritual needs of an individual
- Understand the impact of values and beliefs on own and an individual's spiritual wellbeing
- Be able to support individuals' spiritual wellbeing
34
Support the use of assistive technology
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the contribution that assistive technology can make to the lives of individuals
- Be able to facilitate the use of assistive technology
- Be able to develop others to facilitate the use of assistive technology
- Be able to review the provision of assistive technology
35
Understand partnership working
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand partnership working
36
Understand personalisation in care and support services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the meaning of personalisation in social care and support services
- Understand the systems and processes that support personalisation
- Understand where responsibilities lie within self-directed support
- Understand how to promote personalisation
- Understand how to develop systems and structures for personalisation
37
Understand safeguarding and protection in adult care settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of current legislation for the safeguarding of adults at risk of ab
- use and neglect
- Understand how to respond to suspected or alleged abuse
- Understand how to participate in inter- agency, joint or integrated working in order to protect vulnerable adults
- Understand how to support others in safeguarding
38
Undertake research in adult care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand research approaches and methodologies
- Be able to plan a research project in relation to own area of adult care practiceConduct a research project within own area of adult care practice
- Analyse research findings
39
Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand partnership working
- Be able to establish and maintain working relationships with colleagues
- Be able to establish and maintain working relationships with other professionals
- Be able to work in partnership with others
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/3963/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Focus Awards
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jan 2019