NCFE
    Level 3
    QN: 610/6203/0
    Curriculum Active

    NCFE CACHE Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry in Adult Care (Diploma)

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NCFE. Classified as a Technical Occupation Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 2812 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    NCFE
    Syllabus Units
    105 Units
    Guided Hours
    2812 hrs
    Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.

    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Administer medication to individuals and monitor the effects

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols relevant to the administration of medication
    • Know about common types of medication and their use
    • Understand procedures and techniques for the administration of medication
    • Be able to prepare for the administration of medication
    • Be able to administer and monitor medication
    2

    Adult social care regulation, inspection and quality improvement

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current adult social care regulatory body
    • Understand quality improvements in adult social care
    • Understand quality audits in adult social care
    • Understand how to prepare for a regulatory body inspection
    • Be able to plan an internal audit in an adult social care setting
    3

    Assist in the administration of medication

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the current legislation, guidelines and policies relevant to the administration of medication
    • Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication
    • Understand the requirements and procedures for assisting in the administration of medication
    • Understand the requirements and procedures for ensuring an individual’s safety
    • Be able to prepare for the administration of medication
    • Be able to assist in the administration of medication
    • Be able to contribute to the management of medications and administration records
    4

    Awareness of mental health legislation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of mental health legislation
    • Understand the key elements of mental health legislation
    • Understand ‘restraint’ as defined under mental health legislation
    • Understand the importance of complying with mental health legislation code of practice when working with individuals who lack capacity
    5

    Care for the older person

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the ageing process
    • Understand how to adapt communication when caring for the older person
    • Understand how to care for the older person
    6

    Causes and spread of infection

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the causes of infection
    • Understand the transmission of infection
    7

    Cleaning, decontamination and waste management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to maintain a clean environment
    • Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process
    • Understand the importance of good waste management practice
    • Be able to undertake the decontamination process
    8

    Co-ordinate activity provision in adult social care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, policies and codes of practice in relation to co-ordinating person-centred activities
    • Understand the principles of co-ordinating individual and group activities
    • Be able to plan and prepare for individual and group activity provision
    • Be able to guide and support individuals and groups during activities
    • Be able to contribute to the evaluation of individual and group activities
    9

    Co-ordinate the use of assistive living technology

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how assistive living technology impacts the lives of individuals
    • Be able to facilitate the use of assistive living technology
    • Be able to support the development of others to facilitate the use of assistive living technology
    • Be able to review the provision of assistive living technology
    10

    Collaborate in the assessment of environmental and social support in the community

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines related to the provision of environmental and social support in the community
    • Understand how to assess the need for, and provision of, environmental and social support in the community
    • Be able to carry out assessments in collaboration with others to establish the need for, and provision of, environmental and social support in the community
    • Be able to plan changes to be made to the environment and social support with individuals and relevant others
    11

    Contribute to quality assurance in adult care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand quality standards in adult care
    • Understand factors that impact the quality of service delivery
    • Understand quality assurance methods and systems
    • Understand own role and responsibilities in meeting quality standards
    • Be able to contribute to and review the implementation of quality standards
    12

    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
    13

    Dementia awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand dementia
    • Understand models of dementia
    • Know types of dementia and their causes
    • Understand an individual’s experience of dementia
    14

    Develop own communication skills to support positive interactions with individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the scope and benefits of communication and positive interaction in adult care
    • Understand how own skills and a range of factors influence the quality of interaction and communication
    • Understand how to adapt own communication in response to distress or conflict
    • Understand the range of resources and aids used to support communication and interaction
    • Be able to demonstrate communication skills during positive interactions with individuals
    • Be able to review and develop own communication skills
    15

    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
    16

    Diabetes awareness

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand diabetes
    • Know risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes
    • Know the treatment and management options for individuals with diabetes
    • Know how to respond to hypoglycaemia
    • Know how to respond to hyperglycaemia
    • Understand the links between diabetes and other conditions
    • Understand how to work safely when monitoring individuals with diabetes
    17

    End-of-life care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how the legislative frame
    • work relating to end-of-life care protects the rights of individuals and others
    • Understand factors that impact on end-of-life care
    • Understand advance care planning in relation to end-of-life care
    • Understand pain and symptom management in end-of-life care
    • Understand how to support individuals and others during end-of-life care
    • Understand the role of organisations, community and support services available to individuals and others in relation to end-of-life care
    • Understand actions to take following the death of an individual
    • Understand how to manage own feelings in relation to the dying or death of individuals
    18

    Facilitate assessment, planning, implementation and review using person-centred and strengths-based approaches

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of person-centred and strengths-based approaches in assessment and care or support planning
    • Be able to facilitate strengths-based and 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 plan
    • Be able to facilitate a review of care plans and their implementation
    19

    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
    20

    Facilitate support planning to ensure positive outcomes for individuals and to support wellbeing

    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
    21

    Handling information in adult care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand requirements for handling information in care settings
    • Be able to implement good practice in handling information
    22

    Implement positive behaviour support

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the legislative frame
    • work in relation to positive behaviour support
    • Understand behaviour as a means of expression
    • Understand approaches to positive behavioural support
    • Be able to monitor the behaviour of individuals
    • Be able to agree strategies for positive behaviour support with individuals and others
    • Be able to implement positive behaviour support plans
    • Be able to support individuals through incidents of behaviour
    • Be able to develop practice in relation to positive behaviour support
    23

    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
    24

    Lead an effective team

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand team working
    • Be able to lead a team effectively
    • Be able to review the effectiveness of team working
    25

    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
    26

    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
    27

    Maintain infection prevention and control in a care setting

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand own role in the prevention and control of the spread of infection
    • Be able to work in ways to prevent and control the spread of infection
    28

    Manage resources in adult care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand resource management in adult care
    • Be able to contribute to planning and securing resources
    • Be able to monitor and review the quality and use of resources in own area of responsibility
    29

    Managing pain and discomfort

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the experience and impact of pain and discomfort
    • Understand how to assess and monitor pain and discomfort
    • Understand approaches to pain management and minimising discomfort
    • Understand legislation and guidance relating to pain management and minimising discomfort
    • Be able to support individuals to manage pain and discomfort
    • Be able to monitor
    • record and report on the management of individuals’ pain or discomfort
    30

    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
    31

    Move and position individuals in accordance with their care plan

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct in relation to moving and positioning individuals
    • Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to moving and positioning individuals
    • Be able to minimise risk before moving and positioning individuals
    • Be able to move and position an individual
    • Know when to seek advice and/or assistance from others when moving and positioning an individual
    32

    Obtain and test capillary blood samples

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols in relation to obtaining and testing capillary blood samples
    • Understand the anatomy, physiology in relation to, and the purpose of, obtaining and testing capillary blood samples
    • Be able to prepare to obtain capillary blood samples
    • Be able to obtain capillary blood samples
    • Be able to test and record the results of blood samples
    • Be able to pass on the results of blood samples
    33

    Obtain venous blood samples

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols in relation 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
    34

    Person-centred practice, choice and independence

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the application of person-centred practices in care settings
    • Understand the importance of individuals’ relationships
    • Be able to apply person-centred approaches
    • Be able to promote individuals’ rights to make choices
    • Be able to promote individuals’ independence
    • Understand the role of risk assessments in promoting person-centred approaches, choice and independence
    35

    Personal and professional behaviour in adult care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the values, principles and standards underpinning personal and professional behaviour in adult care
    • Understand self-awareness in relation to personal and professional behaviour
    • Be able to reflect on personal and professional behaviour
    • Be able to role model personal and professional behaviour
    36

    Prepare for and carry out extended feeding techniques

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when using extended feeding techniques
    • Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to extended feeding
    • Understand 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
    37

    Principles of advocacy

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand advocacy in health and social care
    • Understand the principles and values underpinning advocacy
    • Understand the roles and responsibilities of an advocate
    • Understand how to provide advocacy support
    • Understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of individuals during advocacy
    38

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

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the development of human sexuality
    • Understand factors that impact sexual development of individuals with a learning disability
    • Understand the support of sexual health issues
    • Understand legislation in relation to the support of sexuality and sexual health for individuals with learning disabilities
    • Understand how to support the sexual expression of an individual with a learning disability
    39

    Promote communication in care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
    • Understand the variety in peoples’ communication needs and preferences
    • Be able to communicate effectively with others
    • Be able to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
    • Understand the role of independent advocacy services in supporting individuals to communicate their wishes, needs and preferences
    • Understand principles and practice of confidentiality in care settings
    40

    Promote continence management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the causes and types of incontinence
    • Understand the effects and risks of incontinence
    • Understand how to support individuals to manage incontinence
    • Be able to support individuals to select strategies and aids to manage continence
    • Be able to support the use of aids and strategies to manage continence
    • Be able to evaluate strategies and aids for managing continence
    41

    Promote equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights in care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand influences on working practices to promote equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights
    • Understand the importance of equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights within your work setting
    • Know how to promote equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights
    • Be able to work in an inclusive way
    42

    Promote health, safety and wellbeing in care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
    • Be able to carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
    • Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
    • Be able to reduce the spread of infection
    • Be able to move and handle equipment and other objects safely
    • Be able to handle hazardous substances and materials
    • Be able to promote fire safety in the work setting
    • Be able to implement security measures in the work setting
    • Know how to manage stress
    • Be able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to promote access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan
    43

    Promote innovation, change and positive representation of own organisation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the culture of an organisation
    • Understand theories of change management
    • Understand how to promote the organisation and service provided
    • Be able to support innovation and change
    44

    Promote mental wellbeing and mental health

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand perspectives of and factors that impact mental wellbeing and mental health
    • Understand local, national or international strategy to promote mental wellbeing and mental health
    • Be able to promote mental wellbeing and mental health
    • Be able to promote social inclusion to support individuals’ mental wellbeing and mental health
    45

    Promote nutrition and hydration in adult care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the components of a balanced diet
    • Understand current national and organisational requirements for meeting nutritional and hydration needs in adult care settings
    • Understand malnutrition in adult care settings
    • Understand individual preferences and special dietary requirements in health and social care settings
    • Understand how to promote a culture and environment that supports nutrition and hydration
    • Be able to promote nutrition in health and social care settings
    • Be able to screen and monitor nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings
    46

    Promote own continuing personal and professional development

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know what is required to be competent in own role
    • Be able to assess own personal and professional development needs, and plan and record progress
    • Understand the value of reflective practice
    • Be able to use reflective practice to improve ways of working
    • Be able to develop leadership behaviours
    47

    Promote stroke care management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, policy and guidance in relation to strokes
    • Understand the importance of early recognition of, and intervention for, a stroke
    • Understand the potential effects of a stroke
    • Understand specific communication factors affecting individuals following a stroke
    • Understand how to promote recovery and support rehabilitation for an individual following a stroke
    • Be able to support an individual following a stroke
    48

    Provide agreed support for foot care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the signs and causes of foot and toenail abnormalities
    • Be able to provide support for assessed foot care needs
    • Be able to promote the individual’s engagement in their own foot care
    • Be able to provide foot care safely
    • Be able to record and report on foot care
    49

    Provide support for mobility

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of mobility
    • Be able to prepare for mobility activities
    • Be able to support individuals to keep mobile
    • Be able to observe
    • record and report on activities to support mobility
    50

    Provide support for sleep

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of sleep
    • Be able to establish conditions suitable for sleep
    • Be able to assist an individual to sleep
    • Be able to monitor sleep
    • Know how to access information and advice about difficulties with sleep
    51

    Provide support to individuals to continue recommended therapies

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of supporting individuals to continue recommended therapies
    • Be able to encourage individuals to continue recommended therapies
    • Be able to support individuals to continue recommended therapy
    • Be able to monitor
    • record and report on observations during recommended therapy
    • Be able to contribute to evaluation and review of recommended therapies
    52

    Provide support to individuals with dementia

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation and frameworks in relation to the care and support of individuals with dementia
    • Be able to promote positive interactions with individuals with dementia
    • Be able to support rights and choices of individuals with dementia
    • Be able to involve carers and others in supporting individuals with dementia
    53

    Recognise indications of substance misuse and refer individuals to specialists

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Know the regulations and legislation that applies to the mis
    • use of substances in line with organisational procedures
    • Understand the indications of substance mis
    • Be able to assess and monitor risk in accordance with organisational procedures
    • Understand how to handle information and maintain records in line with organisational procedures
    • Be able to refer individuals to appropriate services in line with organisational requirements
    54

    Safeguarding and protection in care settings

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand principles of safeguarding adults
    • Know how to recognise signs and symptoms of ab
    • Understand how to respond to suspected or alleged ab
    • Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from ab
    • Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of ab
    • Understand how to recognise and report unsafe practices
    • Understand principles for online safety
    • Be able to support others to recognise and respond to potential signs of ab
    • Be able to work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of ab
    55

    Scope and responsibilities of an adult care worker

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand agreed ways of working
    • Be able to work in ways that are agreed with the employer
    • Understand working relationships in adult care settings
    • Be able to work in partnership with others
    56

    Supervision skills and developing and supporting others

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles, scope and purpose of supervision in an adult care setting
    • Understand how supervision can be used to develop and support team members and benefit others within adult care settings
    • Be able to prepare to carry out supervision
    • Be able to lead a supervision
    • Understand how to manage conflict during supervision in adult care settings
    57

    Support autistic individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislative frameworks that relate to autistic individuals
    • Understand the main characteristics of autism
    • Be able to support autistic individuals
    • Be able to support autistic individuals with social interaction and communication
    • Be able to support an autistic individual through transitions and change
    • Be able to support autistic individuals to promote their safety, wellbeing and fulfilment
    58

    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
    59

    Support families who care for individuals with acquired brain injury

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the impact on families who care for an individual with acquired brain injury
    • Understand legislation and policy in relation to supporting carers
    • Be able to assess the support required by families who hold the primary caring role
    • Be able to work in partnership with others
    60

    Support in carrying out assessments to identify the needs of substance users

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand impacts of substance mis
    • Understand legislation, policy and procedure in relation to assessment of substance mis
    • Be able to prepare for a substance mis
    • use assessment
    • Be able to support in undertaking a substance mis
    61

    Support independence in the tasks of daily living

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand principles for supporting independence in the tasks of daily living
    • Be able to establish what support is required for daily living tasks
    • Be able to provide support for planning and preparing meals
    • Be able to provide support for buying and using household and personal items
    • Be able to provide support for keeping the home clean and secure
    • Be able to identify and respond to changes needed in support for daily living tasks
    62

    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
    63

    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
    64

    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
    65

    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
    66

    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
    67

    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
    68

    Support individuals to maintain oral health and mouth care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of oral health and hygiene for adults
    • Understand the principles of oral health and mouth care for adults
    • Be able to assess and review oral health and mouth care needs
    • Be able to support individuals and others to carry out oral hygiene and maintain or improve oral health
    69

    Support individuals to meet personal care needs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to work with individuals to identify their needs and preferences in relation to personal care
    • Be able to provide support for personal care
    • Be able to support individuals to use the toilet
    • Be able to support individuals to maintain personal hygiene
    • Be able to support individuals to manage their personal appearance
    • Be able to monitor and report on support for personal care
    70

    Support individuals to prepare for and settle into 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
    71

    Support individuals to retain, regain and develop skills for everyday life

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the context of supporting skills for everyday life
    • Understand how to support individuals to retain, regain and develop skills for everyday life
    • Be able to support individuals to plan for retaining, regaining 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 retaining, regaining or developing skills for everyday life
    72

    Support individuals who are substance users

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the context of substance use
    • Understand substances, their effects and how they might be used
    • Be able to support individuals to adopt safe practices in relation to substance use
    • Be able to support individuals when they have used substances
    • Be able to support individuals to address substance mis
    • use through an action plan
    73

    Support individuals with learning disabilities to access healthcare

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, policies and guidance relevant to individuals with learning disabilities accessing healthcare
    • Understand the function of healthcare services that an individual with learning disabilities may need to access
    • Understand how plans for healthcare and regular health checks underpin long-term health and wellbeing for individuals with learning disabilities
    • Be able to complete and review plans for healthcare for individuals with learning disabilities
    • Be able to support an individual with learning disabilities to access a variety of healthcare services
    74

    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
    75

    Support individuals with Parkinson’s disease

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the signs, symptoms and progression of Parkinson’s disease
    • Understand the impact of Parkinson’s disease on the individual and others
    • Understand the diagnosis, interventions and treatment options to manage Parkinson’s disease
    • Understand safe and effective use of medication for Parkinson’s disease
    • Be able to support the health and wellbeing of individuals with Parkinson’s disease
    76

    Support individuals with specific communication needs

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand an individual’s specific communication needs
    • Understand how to support the use of communication technology and aids
    • Be able to contribute to identifying and addressing specific communication needs of individuals
    • Be able to interact with individuals using their preferred communication method
    • Be able to promote communication between individuals and others
    • Be able to review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided
    77

    Support person-centred thinking, planning and review

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand principles and practice of person-centred thinking, planning and review
    • Understand the context of person-centred thinking, planning and review
    • Understand own role in person-centred planning
    • Be able to implement person-centred thinking, planning and review
    78

    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 frame
    • work which underpins 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
    79

    Support the assessment of individuals with sensory loss

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand own role and the roles of others in the assessment of individuals with sensory loss and their carers
    • Understand own role and the role of others in promoting the interests of individuals with sensory loss
    • Be able to support the assessment of individuals with sensory loss
    • Be able to support primary carers
    • Be able to promote evidence-based practice in relation to sensory loss
    80

    Support the health and wellbeing of individuals in a care setting

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of individuals’ wellbeing
    • Know how to monitor individuals’ health and wellbeing
    • Be able to assess and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing
    • Be able to promote individuals’ health and wellbeing
    81

    Support the spiritual wellbeing of individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of spiritual wellbeing for individuals
    • Be able to identify the spiritual needs of an individual and others
    • Understand the impact of values and beliefs on own and an individual's spiritual wellbeing
    • Be able to support individuals' spiritual wellbeing
    82

    Test for substance use

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Be able to prepare to test individuals for substance use
    • Be able to test for substances
    • Be able to communicate outcomes of testing for substances
    83

    Understand advance care planning

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of advance care planning
    • Understand the process of advance care planning
    • Understand person-centred approaches to advance care planning
    84

    Understand duty of care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
    • Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
    • Know how to respond to comments and complaints
    • Know how to recognise and respond to adverse events, incidents, errors and near misses
    • Be able to lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
    85

    Understand how to promote personal wellbeing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand own wellbeing
    • Understand the importance of maintaining and improving own wellbeing
    • Know how to maintain and improve own wellbeing
    • Know how to manage own stress and anxiety
    86

    Understand how to support autistic individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the characteristics and diagnostic features of autism
    • Understand how autism can influence the lives of individuals and others
    • Understand different theories and concepts in relation to autism
    • Understand the legislative and policy frame
    • work in relation to the support of autistic individuals
    • Understand how to develop strategies and skills to enable social interaction and communication with autistic individuals
    • Understand how to support autistic individuals
    87

    Understand how to support individuals to access and engage in education, training and employment (ETE)

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand legislation, statutory guidance and codes of practice in relation to supporting individuals to access and engage in education, training and employment (ETE)
    • Understand the principles of engagement in ETE for individuals
    • Understand support available for individuals in relation to ETE
    • Understand how to advise and support individuals to access and engage in ETE
    88

    Understand how to support individuals with foot care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the basic structure and function of the foot
    • Understand the causes and risk factors of foot problems
    • Understand how to carry out foot and nail care
    • Understand reporting and referral procedures in relation to foot care
    89

    Understand long-term conditions and frailty

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand frailty and the impact of this on individuals
    • Understand long-term conditions
    • Know how to support individuals with frailty or long-term conditions
    90

    Understand mental capacity and restrictive practices

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of mental capacity in adult care
    • Understand the application of the principles of mental capacity and consent
    • Understand restrictive practices
    91

    Understand mental ill health

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the types of mental ill health
    • Understand the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social net
    • Understand the difficulties individuals with mental ill health may face
    • Know how to recognise and respond to deterioration in an individual’s overall health and wellbeing
    • Know how to recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity
    • Understand how to identify situations of risk to individuals with mental ill health and to self and others
    92

    Understand personalisation in adult care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand personalisation in adult care
    • Understand systems that promote personalisation
    • Understand how to implement personalisation in practice
    93

    Understand sensory loss

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the factors that impact on individuals with sensory loss
    • Understand the importance of effective communication for individuals with sensory loss
    • Understand causes and conditions of sensory loss
    • Understand how to recognise when an individual may be experiencing sight and/or hearing loss and actions to take
    94

    Understand social prescribing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand factors which impact on health and wellbeing
    • Understand the policy for social prescribing
    • Understand social prescribing in practice
    • Understand the role and responsibilities of the frontline health and care practitioner in relation to social prescribing
    • Understand outcomes of social prescribing
    95

    Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how legislation and policies support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities
    • Understand the nature, causes and characteristics of learning disability
    • Understand the historical context of learning disability
    • Understand 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
    • Understand how to promote communication with individuals with learning disabilities
    96

    Understand the impact of acquired brain injury on individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand acquired brain injury
    • Understand the impact of acquired brain injury on individuals
    • Understand the specialist communication needs of an individual with acquired brain injury
    • Understand the impact that personality changes may have on individuals with acquired brain injury and others
    • Understand the impact of behaviour that challenges
    97

    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
    98

    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 when undertaking pressure area care
    • Understand the use of materials, equipment and resources available when undertaking pressure area care
    • Be able to prepare to undertake pressure area care
    • Be able to undertake pressure area care
    99

    Undertake personal hygiene activities with individuals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols in relation to undertaking personal hygiene activities with individuals
    • Know the anatomy and physiology of the skin, nose, mouth, eyes and ears in relation to cleansing
    • Be able to prepare for undertaking personal hygiene activities with individuals
    • Be able to undertake personal hygiene activities with individuals
    • Be able to record and report the outcome of the personal hygiene activity
    100

    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
    101

    Undertake stoma care

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to assessment for stoma care
    • Understand the anatomy and physiology in relation to conditions requiring stoma care
    • Be able to prepare individuals for stoma care
    • Be able to carry out stoma care for individuals
    • Be able to monitor and check individuals following stoma care
    102

    Undertake tissue viability risk assessments

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the need for tissue viability risk assessment
    • Be able to undertake tissue viability risk assessment
    • Be able to record and report on tissue viability risk assessment
    • Understand when the risk assessment should be reviewed
    103

    Undertake treatments and dressings of lesions and wounds

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols, best practice and safety measures related to undertaking treatments and dressings of lesions and wounds
    • Understand wound infection and healing
    • Understand the rationale for carrying out procedures when treating lesions/wounds
    • Be able to prepare to treat and dress lesions and wounds
    • Be able to carry out treatments and dressings to lesions/wounds
    • Be able to record and report outcomes of the activities
    104

    Work in partnership with families to support individuals

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

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    610/6203/0
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    NCFE
    Qualification Type
    Technical Occupation Qualification
    Operational Start
    Aug 2026

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