TQUK
    Level 3
    QN: 601/7943/0
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    TQUK Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities (RQF)

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by TQUK. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1340 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    TQUK
    Syllabus Units
    47 Units
    Guided Hours
    1340 hrs
    Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.

    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

    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
    3

    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
    4

    Implement the positive behavioural support model

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the context of the Positive Behavioural
    • Support model.
    • Understand the term ‘challenging behaviour’.
    • Understand the context in which challenging behaviour occurs.
    • Be able to contribute to the functional analysis in relation to an individual's challenging behaviour.
    • Understand the key characteristics of Positive Behavioural
    • Be able to implement primary prevention strategies.
    • Be able to use a person centred approach to develop plans that promote participation.
    • Be able to implement secondary prevention strategies.
    • Be able to implement non aversive reactive strategies.
    • Be able to understand and implement Positive Behavioural
    • Support Plans.
    5

    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
    6

    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
    7

    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
    8

    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
    9

    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
    10

    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.
    11

    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
    12

    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
    13

    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.
    14

    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
    15

    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
    16

    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
    17

    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
    18

    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
    19

    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
    20

    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
    21

    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
    22

    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.
    23

    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
    24

    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
    25

    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
    26

    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
    27

    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
    28

    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
    29

    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
    30

    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
    31

    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
    32

    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
    33

    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
    34

    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.
    35

    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
    36

    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
    37

    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
    38

    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
    39

    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
    40

    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
    41

    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
    42

    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
    43

    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
    44

    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
    45

    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.
    46

    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.
    47

    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)
    601/7943/0
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    TQUK
    Qualification Type
    Vocationally-Related Qualification
    Operational Start
    Feb 2016