Gateway Qualifications
Level 3
QN: 601/0533/1
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Gateway Qualifications Level 3 Certificate In Tackling Substance Misuse
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by Gateway Qualifications. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 294 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
Gateway Qualifications
Syllabus Units
12 Units
Guided Hours
294 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Assessment, Planning and Care for Substance Misuse Practitioners
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of establishing and sustaining relationships with substance users.
- Understand how and when to disengage from relationships with substance users.
- Know how to conduct a level two (triage) assessment.
- Know how to conduct a level three (comprehensive) assessment.
- Know how to plan comprehensive and integrated programmes of care.
- Know how to respond to immediate risks of substance use.
- Understand how to offer harm reduction information advice and guidance.
- Know how to support individuals in changing substance use.
- Understand the importance of monitoring health and safety within all areas of activity.
2
Brief Interventions for Substance Misuse Practitioners
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to support individuals when they have used substances.
- Be able to identify individuals who may benefit from brief interventions.
- Understand how to offer harm reduction information advice and guidance.
- Be able to support individuals in reducing substance use.
3
Dual Diagnosis for Substance Misuse Practitioners
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand a range of mental health problems displayed by clients with dual diagnosis.
- Understand strategies for working with individuals with dual diagnosis
- Be able to investigate an existing substance mis
- use service’s ability to respond to dual diagnosis requirements within a given geographical area.
- Understand the need for collaboration between mental health services and substance mis
- use services.
4
Educating Others about Substances and their Effects
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to educate others about substances, their use and effects.
- Know how to increase people’s knowledge of services available to substance users.
5
Managing Individuals and Teams Working with Substance Users
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to lead the work of individual substance mis
- use practitioners to achieve their objectives.
- Know how to lead the work of teams within a substance mis
- use organisation to achieve their objectives.
- Know how to develop individuals and teams to enhance performance.
- Understand arrangements for joint working between workers and agencies.
- Understand meeting planning, leadership and facilitation.
6
Managing Substance Misuse Services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand management information procedures within substance mis
- use services.
- Be able to identify the needs of the local population for substance mis
- Be able to evaluate strategies, plans and service provision priorities in relation to local needs for substances mis
- Be able to develop own knowledge and practice.
7
Principles of Tackling Substance Misuse
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand substances, their use and effects.
- Understand current relevant legislation and local and national strategies for delivery of services for substance users.
- Understand the stages of treatment provision.
- Understand the modalities of treatment.
- Understand the role of prevention as a health promotion approach.
- Understand the need to promote diversity, equality and the rights of service users.
- Understand how to promote choice, well-being and protection of substance users.
- Know how to monitor
- maintain and promote health and safety in the working environment.
8
Providing Detoxification and Prescribing Services for Substance Users
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to induct individuals into detoxification programmes.
- Know how to develop and implement plans to support substance users through detoxification programmes.
- Understand the principles and procedures for testing for substance use.
- Be able to test for substance mis
- Understand the principles and procedures of supervised consumption of drugs prescribed for the management of substance mis
9
Providing Harm Minimisation Support to Substance Users
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to increase substance users’ knowledge of substances.
- Be able to support individuals who are substance users.
- Understand the principles and practice of safer injecting.
- Understand the risks of blood borne viruses for injecting drug users.
- Be able to explain to substance users the risks associated with blood borne viruses.
- Be able to work with clients in a syringe exchange.
10
Providing Support and After Care Services for Substance Users
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the need for relapse prevention activities throughout the treatment continuum.
- Understand how to support individuals to access housing and accommodation services.
- Understand how to explore employment, training and education options with individuals who use substances.
- Understand how to support individuals to manage their financial affairs.
- Be able to develop
- implement and review personal action plans with service users who use substances.
11
Working with Children and Young People Using Substance Misuse Services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to work within a multi-agency frame
- work for the benefit of children and young people using substance mis
- use services.
- Know about sharing information about children and young people using substance mis
- Understand how to safeguard the well-being of children and young people using substance mis
- Know about the development of children and young people in the context of substance mis
- Be able to engage a child or young person using substance mis
- Be able to plan support through a transition period for a child or young person using substance mis
12
Working with Families using Substance Misuse Services
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of working in a family-focused way in the context of substance mis
- use services.
- Be able to conduct an assessment of a family in the context of substance mis
- Understand how an individual’s substance or alcohol mis
- use affects familial relationships.
- Understand how to safeguard the well-being of families using substance mis
- Be able to plan a recovery intervention for a family using substance mis
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 601/0533/1
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- Gateway Qualifications
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Aug 2013