Diploma in Adult Care

Level 3 qualification

Learners embark on a journey to unlock the power of agreed ways of working. They will gain profound insights into their roles, responsibilities, and delegated healthcare tasks. This foundational unit is the key to cultivating collaboration skills, conflict avoidance strategies, and a mindset for ongoing learning, setting the stage for individual excellence.

Learners will elevate their game with a deeper understanding of their duties and responsibilities aligned with industry standards. This unit goes beyond the basics, encouraging continuous professional development, self-awareness, and reflective practice. Individuals will learn strategies for continuous improvement, enhancing the quality of care they deliver.

For a dynamic working environment, learners will gain knowledge and skills to not only manage their well-being but mastering it to support others effectively. This unit will offer insights into a range of well-being support options and stress management strategies. Learners will emerge equipped to provide quality support in daily care activities.

Learners expand their legislative and regulatory knowledge to include mental capacity and associated roles and responsibilities. The unit delves into consent, exploring its relationship with capacity, choice, and safety. Skills are developed to maximise an individual’s capacity and navigate the least restrictive options, while policies and procedures promoting human rights come into focus.

This unit will elevate communication dynamics with effective strategies. It will empower learners to navigate challenging situations, overcome communication barriers, and master confidentiality nuances. Learners will be well-equipped to ensure seamless communication aligned with industry regulations and codes of practice.

Expanding on human rights understanding, learners incorporate equality, diversity, and inclusion principles into their work. The unit addresses appropriate ways of interacting with unique individuals, reducing unconscious bias, recognising, and challenging discrimination, and building skills to champion equitable and inclusive working practices.

Learners will gain an airtight understanding of confidentiality, data security, and their responsibilities concerning the rule of law and organisational agreed ways of working. This module ensures individuals not only handle information effectively but also understand the repercussions of a data breach. Their duty of care for individuals and their organisation will be introduced, setting the stage for advanced learning.

Building on equality, diversity, and inclusion principles, learners will apply person-centred values universally to support relationships with individuals. The unit explores how person-centred values, strengths-based approaches, and active participation influence all aspects of care work. The journey towards promoting choice and independence begins, with learners supporting individuals to challenge decisions made by others.

Learners will deep dive into the concept of duty of care with this unit, learning how to navigate their responsibilities, in relationship with their duty of candour. They will consider the practical implications of maintaining an individual’s rights, whilst also managing conflicts and dilemmas. This unit will make clear links between a duty of care and the safeguarding of individuals, which will lead seamlessly to the next unit of learning.

Learners will develop skills that go beyond routine care; skills that promote choice and independence. Understanding the role of risk assessments in promoting independence becomes crucial, with an emphasis on the importance of regularly reviewing and updating assessments to support an individual’s right to make choices.

This unit will ensure a culture of safety as learners delve into safeguarding and protection concepts. Learners will go beyond basics, analysing serious failures in care and drawing valuable lessons that can be practically applied in their work setting. They will consider the modern age to incorporate cyber security risks. With insights into sources of support for safeguarding concerns, learners will become frontline defenders and champions of safeguarding.

Expanding on person-centred knowledge, learners will deepen their understanding of the relationships between an individual’s identity, self-esteem, and well-being. The unit explores factors influencing well-being, available support services, and indicators of health deterioration. Learners acquire skills to monitor health and well-being, taking action to promote independence in self-monitoring.

Learners will consolidate previous learning, exploring statutory requirements and agreed ways of working in health and safety. The unit delves into managing risk through comprehensive risk assessments. Key principles and practices in health and safety are explored in detail, covering infection prevention, manual handling, hazardous substances, and fire safety.