NCFE
Level 3
QN: 600/4037/3
Curriculum Active
NCFE CACHE Level 3 Award in Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NCFE. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1238 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 3
Awarding Body
NCFE
Syllabus Units
45 Units
Guided Hours
1238 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
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
2
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
3
Maintaining the Independent Advocacy relationship
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know what to do when faced with practice dilemmas, Deal positively with conflict
- Maintain accurate records
- Prioritise competing work commitments
- Use personal value base and power appropriately
- Use supervision as a tool to reflect and improve practice
- Use local and national networks
- Respond to concerns of ab
4
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
5
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
6
Principles of supporting an individual to maintain personal hygiene
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of good personal hygiene
- Know how to encourage an individual to maintain personal hygiene
- Know how to support an individual to maintain personal hygiene
- Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other underlying personal issues
7
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
8
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.
9
Promote active support
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how active support translates values into person-centred practical action with an individual
- Be able to interact positively with individuals to promote participation
- Be able to develop and implement person-centred daily plans to promote participation
- Be able to use person-centred records to evaluate an individual’s participation in activities
10
Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
- Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
- Be able to overcome barriers to communication
- Be able to apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality
11
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.
12
Provide support for individuals within a shared lives arrangement
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to establish the needs, background, experiences, wishes, preferences and choices of an individual
- Be able to identify how an individual’s needs can be met through a shared lives arrangement
- Know how to address potential power imbalances in a shared lives arrangement
- Be able to assist individuals to adjust to the home environment
- Be able to support key people to adjust to a shared lives arrangement
- Be able to contribute to on-going review of the shared lives arrangement
13
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
14
Providing Independent Advocacy support
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Establish safe boundaries to maintain the Advocacy relationship
- Establish the Advocacy relationship, Assist the individual receiving Advocacy support to explore and make choices, Construct an action plan
- Support the individual receiving Advocacy support to self advocate, Act on the instruction of the person receiving Advocacy support
- Review and end the Advocacy relationship
15
Purpose and principles of Independent Advocacy
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand Independent Advocacy
- Explain principles and values underpinning Independent Advocacy
- Describe the development of Advocacy
- Be able to explain different types of Advocacy support and their purpose
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of an Independent Advocate
- Understand Advocacy standards
16
Support families in maintaining relationships in their wider social structures
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of social interactions and relationships for families of people with specific needs
- Understand the issues surrounding discrimination
- Be able to support families to access opportunities for social contact within their wider social structures
- Be able to support families to maintain social contacts within their wider social structures
17
Support families who have a child with a disability
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact on a family of having a child with a disability
- Be able to support families who have a child with a disability
- Be able to support families with a child with a disability to use informal networks and community resources, 4.
- Be able to work in partnership with other professionals and agencies to support families with a child with a disability
18
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
19
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
20
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.
21
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
22
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
23
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
24
Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of good personal hygiene
- Be able to support individuals to maintain personal hygiene
- Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other underlying personal issues
25
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
26
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
27
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
28
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
29
Support individuals with self-directed support
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand self-directed support
- Understand how to support individuals to direct their own support and develop their support plan
- Understand the different ways that individuals can use their personal budget
- Be able to support individuals to direct their support
- Be able to support individuals to use their personal budget in different ways
- Be able to support individuals with an outcome-focused review
30
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
31
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
32
Support person-centred thinking and planning
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles and practice of person-centred thinking, planning and reviews.
- Understand the context within which person-centred thinking and planning takes place.
- Understand own role in person-centred planning.
- Be able to apply person-centred planning in relation to own life.
- Be able to implement person-centred thinking, planning and reviews.
33
Support positive risk taking for individuals
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of risk taking in everyday life
- Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk assessment
- Understand the legal and policy frame
- work underpinning an individual’s right to make decisions and take risks
- Be able to support individuals to make decisions about risks
- Be able to support individuals to take risks
- Understand duty of care in relation to supporting positive risk-taking
34
Support 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
- Be able to support a young person with a disability through transition into adulthood
- Be able to support a young person to reflect on the transition
35
Understand how to support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions
- Understand how autistic spectrum conditions can impact on the lives of individuals and those around them
- Understand different theories and concepts about autism
- Understand the legal and policy frame
- work that underpins good practice in the support of individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
- Understand how to achieve effective communication with individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
- Understand how to support individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
36
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
37
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
38
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
39
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
40
Understand positive risk taking for individuals with disabilities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand that individuals with disabilities have the same right as everyone else to take risks
- Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk assessment
- Understand the legal and policy frame
- work underpinning an individual with disabilities right to make decisions and take risks
- Understand the importance of considering with an individual with disabilities the risks associated with the choices they make
- Understand the importance of a partnership approach to risk taking
41
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
42
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
43
Understand the diversity of individuals with dementia and the importance of inclusion
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of diversity and its relevance to working with individuals who have dementia.
- Understand that each individual’s experience of dementia is unique.
- Understand the importance of working in a person centred way and how this links to inclusion.
44
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.
45
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
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 600/4037/3
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- NCFE
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Feb 2012