Focus Awards
Level 5
QN: 610/4677/2
Curriculum Active
Focus Awards Level 5 Diploma in Leading and Managing an Adult Care Service (RQF)
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Focus Awards. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1300 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 5
Awarding Body
Focus Awards
Syllabus Units
45 Units
Guided Hours
1300 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Continuous Development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate commitment to own development
- Demonstrate commitment to self-awareness
- Manage own workload effectively
2
Decision Making in Adult Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand effective decision-making
- Demonstrate effective decision-making
3
Develop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaints
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the regulatory requirements, codes of practice and relevant guidance for managing concerns and complaints
- Be able to develop procedures to address concerns and complaints
- Be able to lead the implementation of procedures and practice for addressing concerns and complaints
- Be able to review the procedures and practices for addressing concerns and complaints
4
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Human Rights
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rightsLead a culture that promotes, values, and celebrates equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights
5
Governance and Regulatory Processes
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand legislation and statutory guidance that underpins adult care provision
- Understand internal governance arrangements within own organisation
- Understand systems and requirements for the regulation of adult care services
- Understand the inspection process in adult social care
- Understand the inspection process in own service
6
Health and Safety
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand health and safety requirements in adult social careLead the implementation of health and safety requirements in adult social care
- Understand effective risk managementLead the implementation of policies, procedures, and practices to effectively manage risk
7
Health and Wellbeing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Lead a culture that promotes individuals’ wellbeing and independence in all aspects of day to day practice
- Understand the importance of promoting individuals’ health and wellbeingLead practice in promoting individuals’ health and wellbeing
8
Lead a service that supports individuals through significant life events
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to implement organisational systems and procedures necessary to support individuals experiencing significant life events
- Be able to ensure sufficient and appropriate resources to support individuals experiencing significant life events
- Be able to ensure staff can respond to individuals experiencing significant life events
9
Lead and manage infection prevention and control within the work setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current infection prevention and control policies, procedures and practices
- Be able to lead the implementation of policies and procedures for infection prevention and control
- Be able to manage the exchange of information about infections
- Be able to lead the practice of infection prevention and control
- Be able to manage risk management in infection prevention and control.
10
Lead and manage practice in dementia care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand current policy and practice guidance for dementia care.
- Be able to support others to develop an understanding of current research of the impact of dementia on individuals and their families.
- Be able to lead practice that promotes the well-being of individuals with dementia
- Be able to lead practice that support staff to establish and maintain relationships with carers of individuals with dementia
- Be able to support staff to deliver dementia care
- Be able to develop own practice in leading the delivery of dementia care
11
Lead positive behavioural support
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the theoretical background and current policy context of Positive Behavioural
- Be able to conduct a functional analysis of an individual requiring Positive Behavioural
- Be able to design and lead person-centred, primary prevention strategies
- Be able to assess the appropriateness of reactive strategy use
- Be able to lead the implementation of a Positive Behavioural
- Be able to manage and review the implementation of Positive Behavioural
- Support Plans
12
Leadership and Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand leadership and management theories and styles
- Understand leadership and management in adult care
13
Leading the Vision in Adult Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to develop a vision for the serviceLead commitment and implementation of the vision and future direction of the service
14
Manage an Inter-Professional Team
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles of interprofessional working
- Be able to manage service objectives through the interprofessional team
- Be able to promote inter-professional team working
- Be able to manage processes for interprofessional work with individuals
- Be able to evaluate the effectiveness of interprofessional team work
15
Manage Disciplinary Processes
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to manage disciplinary processes
- Be able to manage staff practice which falls below professional and/or organisational standards
- Be able to compile and present evidence for a disciplinary proceeding
- Be able to manage the outcomes of a disciplinary process
16
Manage domiciliary services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand factors that influence the management of domiciliary services
- Be able to manage domiciliary services
- Be able to implement systems for working safely in domiciliary services
- Be able to supervise and support practitioners in order to promote individual’s needs and preferences in domiciliary services
- Be able to respond to day to day changes and emergencies in domiciliary services
- Be able to manage human resources required for domiciliary services
17
Manage Quality in Health and Social Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the context of quality assurance in a health and social care
- Be able to implement quality standards in a health and social care
- Be able to lead the evaluation of quality processes in a health and social care
18
Managing Comments and Complaints in Adult Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the management of comments and complaintsLead practice in listening and responding to comments and complaints
19
Mental Capacity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand mental capacity and consent
- Understand the use and impact of restrictive practices
20
Partnerships in Adult Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the context of relationships and partnership workingLead effective relationships with individuals, carers and families
- Manage working relationships with colleagues in own setting to achieve positive outcomes for individuals
- Work in partnerships with professionals and other agencies
21
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
22
Safeguarding in Adult Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand requirements for safeguarding in adult careLead the implementation of practices, policies and procedures to support safeguarding in adult care
23
Support families who are affected by Acquired Brain Injury
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact on families who care for an individual who is in a minimally responsive or vegetative state
- Understand the long term effects of acquired brain injury on family
- Understand legislation that is relevant to carers of an individual effected by acquired brain injury
- Be able to assess the support required by families who hold the primary caring role
- Be able to work in partnership with other professionals and agencies
24
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
25
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
26
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
27
Understand how to manage a team
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the attributes of effective team performance
- Know how to support team development
- Know how to promote shared purpose within a team
- Know how to promote a ‘no-blame culture’ within a team
- Understand different styles of leadership and management
28
Understand partnership working
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand partnership working
29
Understand Physical Disability
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of differentiating between the individual and the disability
- Understand the concept of physical disability
- Understand the impact of living with a physical disability within society
- Understand the importance of promoting inclusion and independence
30
Understanding professional supervision practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose of supervision
- Understand how the principles of supervision can be used to inform performance management
- Understand how to support individuals through professional supervision
- Understand how professional supervision supports performance
31
Undertake a Research Project
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to justify a topic for research within services for health and social care
- Understand how the components of research are used
- Be able to conduct a research project within services for health and social care
- Be able to analyse research findings
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/4677/2
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Focus Awards
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2024