iCQ
    Level 3
    QN: 610/6354/X
    Curriculum Active

    iCQ Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Northern Ireland)

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by iCQ. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 2225 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    iCQ
    Syllabus Units
    74 Units
    Guided Hours
    2225 hrs
    Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.

    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Communication and Information Sharing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of communication and information handling
    • Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
    • Be able to overcome barriers to communication and information handling within limits of own role
    • Be able to apply principles and practices of confidentiality
    • Be able to implement and support good practice in handling information
    • Understand how to respond to complaints
    2

    Continuing Professional Development in the context of Health and Social Care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand what is required for competence in own work role
    • Be able to work in ways that are agreed with the employer
    • Understand how to work in partnership with others
    • Understand your personal development
    • Understand the role of regulation
    • Be able to reflect on practice
    • Understand how to manage stress
    • Understand theories of teams and team working
    • Understand the principles that underpin effective team
    • Understand how the principles of professional supervision can be used to inform performance management
    3

    Contribute to raising awareness of health issues

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand factors affecting awareness-raising activities about health issues
    • Be able to recognise the need for raising awareness of health issues
    • Be able to assist in planning activities to raise awareness of health issues
    • Be able to contribute to implementing activities for raising awareness of health issues
    • Be able to review the effectiveness of activities to raise awareness of health issues
    4

    Diabetes Awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand diabetes and the associated implications
    • Know the most common types of diabetes and their causes
    • Understand how to implement a person-centred approach when supporting individuals with diabetes
    • Understand the nutritional needs of indivduals with diabetes
    • Understand factors relating to an individual's experience of diabetes
    • Understand the importance of monitoring diabetes
    • Understand the links between diabetes and other conditions
    5

    Enable individuals to negotiate environments

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the factors that may impact on an individual being able to negotiate their environments
    • Be able to prepare to support an individual to negotiate an environment
    • Be able to support the individual to negotiate an environment
    • Be able to evaluate and revise the support provided to an individual to negotiate an environment
    6

    Enable individuals with behavioural difficulties to develop strategies to change their behaviour

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how legislation, policies and practice affect the support provided to individuals to manage their behaviour.
    • Understand the factors that influence behaviour.
    • Be able to work with individuals to recognise the impact of their behaviour on others
    • Be able to enable people to develop strategies for changing behavioural responses
    • Be able to evaluate and review strategies for changing behavioural responses
    7

    Equality, diversity and inclusion in dementia care practice

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand that each individual’s experience of dementia is unique
    • Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion in dementia care and support
    • Be able to work in a person centred manner to ensure inclusivity of the individual with dementia
    • Be able to work with others to encourage support for diversity and equality
    8

    Facilitate learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of learning and development activities in meeting individual needs
    • Be able to identify learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences
    • Be able to plan learning and development activities with individuals
    • Be able to prepare for learning and development activities
    • Be able to facilitate learning and development activities with individuals
    • Be able to evaluate and review learning and development activities
    9

    Facilitate person centred assessment, planning, implementation and review

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of person centred assessment and care planning
    • Be able to facilitate person centred assessment
    • Be able to contribute to the planning of care or support
    • Be able to support the implementation of care plans
    • Be able to monitor a care plans
    • Be able to facilitate a review of care plans and their implementation
    10

    Health and Wellbeing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to reduce the spread of infection
    • Understand own responsibilities and the responsibilities of others relating to health and safety in the work setting
    • Understand own role in relation to security
    • Be able to move and handle equipment and loads safely
    • Know how to handle hazardous substances and material
    • Be able to use risk assessments in relation to health and safety
    11

    Implement therapeutic group activities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of therapeutic group activities
    • Be able to plan and prepare for therapeutic group activities
    • Be able to support individuals during therapeutic group activities
    • Be able to contribute to the evaluation of therapeutic group activities
    12

    Increase awareness about drugs, alcohol or other substances with individuals and groups

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation and policy relevant to substance use
    • Understand substance use, its effects and treatments
    • Identify individuals’ knowledge and values about substances, Increase individuals’ knowledge and understanding of substances
    13

    Interact with and support individuals using telecommunications

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legal and local requirements relating to the use of telecommunications when supporting individuals
    • Be able to use telecommunication technology
    • Be able to engage with individuals using telecommunications
    • Be able to identify and evaluate any risks or dangers for individuals during the interaction
    • Be able to terminate the interaction
    14

    Introduction to personalisation in social care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the meaning of personalisation in social care
    • Understand systems that support personalisation
    • Understand how personalisation affects the way support is provided
    • Understand how to implement personalisation
    15

    Move and position individuals in accordance with their plan of care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to moving and positioning individuals
    • Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when moving and positioning individuals
    • Be able to minimise risk before moving and positioning individuals
    • Be able to prepare individuals before moving and positioning
    • Be able to move and position an individual
    • Know when to seek advice from and/or involve others when moving and positioning an individual
    16

    Obtain venous blood samples

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, policy and good practice related to obtaining venous blood samples.
    • Understand the anatomy and physiology relating to obtaining venous blood samples.
    • Be able to prepare to obtain venous blood samples.
    • Be able to obtain venous blood samples.
    • Be able to prepare venous blood samples for transportation.
    17

    Prepare environments and resources for use during healthcare activities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to prepare and manage environments and resources for use during healthcare activities
    • Be able to prepare environments, medical equipment, devices and resources for use during healthcare activities
    • Be able to ensure that environments and resourcesare ready for their next intended use
    18

    Prepare for and carry out extended feeding techniques

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to extended feeding
    • Understand extended feeding techniques
    • Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when using extended feeding techniques
    • Be able to manage risks relating to extended feeding
    • Be able to prepare for extended feeding
    • Be able to carry out and complete extended feeding techniques
    • Be able to maintain records and report on extended feeding
    19

    Prepare to support individuals within a shared lives arrangement

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how shared lives arrangements can benefit individuals
    • Be able to access and share information relevant to the provision of a shared lives arrangement for individuals
    • Be able to address the potential impact on key people of providing a shared lives arrangement
    • Be able to carry out an analysis of own development needs before supporting an individual in a shared lives arrangement
    20

    Principles and Values

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
    • Be able to work in an inclusive way to promote diversity, equality and inclusion
    • Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
    • Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection form ab
    • Know how to recognise signs of ab
    • Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of ab
    • use and harm
    • Know how to recognise and report unsafe practices
    • Be able to work in a person-centred way
    • Be able to establish consent when providing care or support
    • Be able to support positive risk taking for individuals
    • Be able to implement and promote Active Participation, Collaboration and Well Being
    • Be able to support the individual’s right to make choices
    21

    Principles of self-directed support

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand self-directed support
    • Understand how to support an individual to direct their own support and develop their support plan
    • Understand the different ways that people can use their personal budget
    • Understand the outcome focused review process
    22

    Principles of supporting individuals with a learning disability regarding sexuality and sexual health

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the development of human sexuality
    • Understand how the sexual development of individuals’ with a learning disability can differ
    • Understand the issues of sexual health and how these can be supported
    • Understand relevant legislation influencing the support of sexuality and sexual health for individuals with learning disabilities
    • Know how to support the sexual expression of an individual with a learning disability
    23

    Principles of supporting young people with a disability to make the transition into adulthood

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the steps and stages of moving from childhood into adulthood.
    • Understand how having a disability may affect the process of moving from childhood into adulthood.
    • Know the options for supporting a young person who has a disability to make the transition into adulthood.
    • Understand how to support a young person with a disability through a successful transition.
    • Understand the importance of supporting a young person and their family to reflect on the transition.
    24

    Promote effective communication with individuals with sensory loss

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of effective two way communication
    • Understand different methods that can support communication with individuals with sensory loss
    • Be able to support the individual with communication
    • Evaluate the effectiveness of methods of communication used to support an individual with sensory loss
    25

    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.
    26

    Promote positive behaviour

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relate to positive behaviour support.
    • Understand the context and use of proactive and reactive strategies.
    • Be able to promote positive behaviour.
    • Be able to respond appropriately to incidents of challenging behaviour.
    • Be able to support individuals and others following an incident of challenging behaviour.
    • Be able to review and revise approaches to promoting positive behaviour.
    27

    Provide support for journeys

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand factors to consider when planning support for journeys
    • Be able to support individuals to plan journeys
    • Be able to support individuals when making journeys
    • Be able to review the support provided for individuals when making journeys
    28

    Provide support to maintain and develop skills for everyday life

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the context of supporting skills for everyday life
    • Be able to support individuals to plan for maintaining and developing skills for everyday life
    • Be able to support individuals to retain, regain or develop skills for everyday life
    • Be able to evaluate support for developing or maintaining skills for everyday life
    29

    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
    30

    Recognise indications of substance misuse and refer individuals to specialists

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Recognise indications of substance mis
    • Assess and monitor risk., Handle information and maintain records., Refer individuals to appropriate services.
    31

    Stroke Awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what a stroke is
    • Know how to recognise stroke
    • Understand the management of risk factors for stroke
    • Understand the importance of emergency response and treatment for stroke
    • Understand the management of stroke
    32

    Supply and exchange injecting equipment for individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand policy and procedures for the supply and exchange of injecting equipment, Conduct initial assessment of substance users and provide relevant advice, Supply and exchange injecting equipment
    33

    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
    34

    Support individuals at the end of life

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the aims and principles of end of life care
    • Understand factors affecting end of life care
    • Understand advance care planning in relation to end of life care
    • Be able to provide support to individuals and key people during end of life care
    • Understand the role of organisations and support services available to individuals and key people in relation to end of life care
    • Be able to support individuals through the process of dying
    • Be able to take action following the death of individuals
    • Be able to manage own feelings in relation to the dying or death of individuals
    35

    Support individuals during a period of change

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand reasons for and responses to change
    • Be able to support individuals to plan how to manage or adapt to change
    • Be able to support individuals to manage or adapt to change
    • Be able to evaluate the support provided during a period of change
    36

    Support individuals in the use of assistive technology

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the range, purpose and effectiveness of assistive technology available to support individuals
    • Be able to support the selection of assistive technology with individuals
    • Be able to support the use of assistive technology aids with an individual
    • Be able to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of assistive technology to meet identified outcomes
    37

    Support individuals in their relationships

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand factors affecting the capacity of individuals to develop and/or maintain relationships.
    • Be able to support individuals to identify beneficial relationships.
    • Be able to support individuals to develop new relationships.
    • Be able to support individuals to maintain existing relationships.
    • Be able to work with individuals to review the support provided for relationships.
    38

    Support individuals through detoxification programmes

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how assessments should be undertaken, Introduce individuals to detoxification programmes
    • Develop and review detoxification treatment and care plans
    • Manage closure of individuals’ detoxification programmes
    39

    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
    40

    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
    41

    Support individuals to access education, training or employment

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the value of engagement in training, education or employment for individuals
    • Understand how legislation, guidance and codes of practice support an individual to access training, education or employment
    • Understand the support available to individuals accessing education, training or employment
    • Be able to support an individual to identify and access education, training or employment that meet needs and preferences
    • Be able to support individuals to undertake education, training or employmen
    • Be able to evaluate engagement in education, training or employment
    42

    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
    43

    Support individuals to be part of a community

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how communities can support social inclusion.
    • Be able to support the social inclusion of individuals in communities.
    • Be able to evaluate the participation of individuals in communities.
    44

    Support individuals to develop and run support groups

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of support groups
    • Be able to support individuals to assess the need for additional support groups
    • Be able to support individuals to develop their own support groups
    • Be able to support individuals to run support groups
    • Be able to support individuals to evaluate support groups
    45

    Support individuals to live at home

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of supporting individuals to live at home
    • Be able to contribute to planning support for living at home
    • Be able to work with individuals to secure additional services and facilities to enable them to live at home
    • Be able to work in partnership to introduce additional services for individuals living at home
    • Be able to contribute to reviewing support for living at home
    46

    Support individuals to manage their finances

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know how to access information and advice about financial affairs
    • Be able to provide support for individuals to manage their finances
    • Be able to contribute to applying for financial assistance
    • Be able to contribute to reviewing support for managing finances
    47

    Support individuals to prepare for and settle in to new home environments

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand factors affecting a move to a new home environment
    • Be able to support individuals to prepare to move into new home environments
    • Be able to support individuals to settle into new home environments
    • Be able to support individuals to review the impact of new home environments
    48

    Support individuals to stay safe from harm or abuse

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how legislative frameworks support the safeguarding of individuals.
    • Be able to support individuals to gain understanding of behaviours and situations that may make them vulnerable to harm or ab
    • Be able to support individuals to gain understanding about how to stay safe.
    • Be able to work in ways that support individuals to stay safe.
    49

    Support individuals who are distressed

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand causes and effects of distress
    • Be able to prepare to support individuals who are experiencing distress
    • Be able to support individuals through periods of distress
    • Be able to support individuals to reduce distress
    • Be able to record and report on an individual’s distress
    50

    Support individuals who are substance users.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand about different substances, their effects and how they might be used., Enable individuals to adopt safe practices associated with substance use.
    • Support individuals when they have used substances.
    • Support individuals in reducing substance use.
    51

    Support individuals with a learning disability to access healthcare

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, policies and guidance relevant to individuals with learning disabilities accessing healthcare
    • Understand the function of different healthcare services that an individual with learning disabilities may need to access
    • Understand the role of professionals within different healthcare services that a person with learning disabilities may need to access
    • Understand how plans for healthcare and regular health checks underpin long-term health and well-being for individuals with learning disabilities
    • Be able to complete and review plans for healthcare
    • Understand the issues that an individual with learning disabilities may face when accessing a variety of healthcare services
    • Be able to support an individual with learning disabilities when accessing a variety of healthcare services
    52

    Support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislative frameworks that relate to individuals with autistic spectrum conditions.
    • Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions.
    • Be able to support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions.
    • Be able to support individuals with autistic spectrum condition with verbal and non-verbal communication.
    • Be able to support individuals with transitions and change.
    53

    Support individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the impact of multiple conditions and/or disabilities on individuals
    • Understand own role in supporting individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
    • Understand the support available for individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
    • Be able to assist individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
    • Be able to evaluate the support provided to an individual to engage in activities
    54

    Support Individuals With Specific Communication Needs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them
    • Be able to contribute to establishing the nature of specific communication needs of individuals and ways to address them
    • Be able to interact with individuals using their preferred communication
    • Be able to promote communication between individuals and others
    • Know how to support the use of communication technology and aids
    • Be able to review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided to address them
    55

    Support parents with disabilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislative and policy frameworks that underpins good practice in the support of parents with disabilities
    • Understand the support parents with disabilities may need
    • Be able to support parents with disabilities
    • Be able to support individuals with disabilities to overcome the barriers they may face in becoming parents and bringing up children
    • Be able to develop positive working relationships with parents with disabilities
    • Be able to work in partnership with other workers, different services and informal support networks
    • Understand how to maintain the primary focus on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child
    56

    Support use of medication in social care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislative frame
    • work for the use of medication in social care settings
    • Know about common types of medication and their use
    • Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings
    • Understand techniques for administering medication
    • Be able to receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely
    • Know how to promote the rights of the individual when managing medication
    • Be able to support use of medication
    • Be able to record and report on use of medication
    57

    Test for substance use.

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Prepare to test individuals for substance use., Test for substances.
    • Communicate outcomes of testing for substances.
    58

    Understand and enable interaction and communication with individuals who have dementia

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the factors that can affect interactions and communication of individuals with dementia
    • Be able to communicate with an individual with dementia using a range of verbal and non-verbal techniques
    • Be able to communicate positively with an individual who has dementia by valuing their individuality
    • Be able to use positive interaction approaches with individuals with dementia
    59

    Understand how to provide support when working in end of life care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current approaches to end of life care
    • Understand an individual's response to their anticipated death
    • Understand factors regarding communication for those involved in end of life care
    • Understand how to support those involved in end of life care situations
    • Understand how symptoms might be identified in end of life care
    • Understand advance care planning
    60

    Understand mental health problems

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the main forms of mental ill health
    • Know the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social net
    61

    Understand mental well-being and mental health promotion

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the different views on the nature of mental well-being and mental health and the factors that may influence both across the life span
    • Know how to implement an effective strategy for promoting mental well-being and mental health with individuals and groups
    62

    Understand Models of Disability

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the difference between models of disability
    • Understand how the adoption of models of disability can shape an individual’s identity and experience
    • Understand how the adoption of models of disability can shape service delivery
    63

    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
    64

    Understand Sensory Loss

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the factors that impact on an individual with sensory loss
    • Understand the importance of effective communication for individuals with sensory loss
    • Understand the main causes and conditions of sensory loss
    • Know how to recognise when an individual may be experiencing sight and / or hearing loss and actions that may be taken
    65

    Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities
    • Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disability
    • Understand the historical context of learning disability
    • Understand the basic principles and practice of advocacy, empowerment and active participation in relation to supporting individuals with learning disabilities and their families
    • Understand how views and attitudes impact on the lives of individuals with learning disabilities and their family carers
    • Know how to promote communication with individuals with learning disabilities
    66

    Understand the factors affecting older people

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the impact of the ageing process on older people.
    • Understand attitudes of society to older people
    • Understand the importance of using person centred approaches with older people.
    • Understand the importance of independence for older people.
    67

    Understand the impact of Acquired Brain Injury on individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand Acquired Brain Injury
    • Understand the impact on individuals of Acquired Brain Injury
    • Understand the specialist communication needs of an individual with Acquired Brain Injury
    • Understand the impact that personality changes can have on an individual and those providing support
    • Understand the impact of challenging behaviour
    68

    Understand the process and experience of dementia

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the neurology of dementia.
    • Understand the impact of recognition and diagnosis of dementia.
    • Understand how dementia care must be underpinned by a person centred approach.
    69

    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
    70

    Undertake agreed pressure area care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the anatomy and physiology of the skin in relation to pressure area care
    • Understand good practice in relation to own role when undertaking pressure area care
    • Be able to follow the agreed care plan
    • Understand the use of materials, equipment and resources are available when undertaking pressure area care
    • Be able to prepare to undertake pressure area care
    • Be able to undertake pressure area care
    71

    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
    72

    Undertake urethral catheterisation processes

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice in relation to carrying out urethral catheterisation
    • Understand the relevant anatomy and physiology
    • Be able to prepare to insert urethral catheters
    • Be able to insert urethral catheters
    • Be able to monitor and care for the urethral catheter after insertion
    • Be able to care for and support the individual during and after the procedure
    73

    Work in partnership with families to support individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand partnership working with families
    • Be able to establish and maintain positive relationships with families
    • Be able to plan shared approaches to the care and support of individuals with families
    • Be able to work with families to access support in their role as carers
    • Be able to exchange and record information about partnership work with families
    • Be able to contribute to reviewing partnership work with families
    • Be able to provide feedback about support for families
    74

    Work with families, carers and individuals during times of crisis

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand relevant legislation, policy and practice when working with individuals, carers and families in times of crisis
    • Be able to develop risk management strategies when working with individuals, carers and families in times of crisis
    • Be able to respond during times of crisis
    • Be able to review the outcomes of requests for action during times of crisis

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    610/6354/X
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    iCQ
    Qualification Type
    Occupational Qualification
    Operational Start
    Sept 2025