Lead Practitioner in Adult Care – L4
The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire teams to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges.
18 months
Mainly in workplace
Theory & Practical
Entry Requirements: There are no entry requirements, however you will undertake an Initial Assessment to ascertain your suitability for the apprenticeship. If you do not already have GCSE C or 3/4 grades in Maths and English you will be required to complete and achieve Functional Skills as part of the apprenticeship.
Course Info
The Leader in Adult Care will guide and inspire teams to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges. They will be a leader of the care team and will develop and implement a values-based culture at a service or unit level. They may be responsible for business development, financial control, organisational resilience and continuity as well as for managing risk and leading on organisational change.
You will learn:
- Dignity & Human Rights -Develop and lead a culture that values courage in working in ways that may challenge workers’ own cultural and belief systems
- Communication
- Safeguarding
- Health & Wellbeing – Monitor, evaluate and improve health, safety and risk management policies and practices in the service
- Leadership – Adopt a team approach, recognising contributions of team members and able to lead a team where required
Teaching
- Delivered in the workplace
Your training officer and guide you through your apprenticeship and plan delivery to work around you and your job role. They will visit you in the workplace to support you with your course work and evidence collection and to conduct progress reviews with you and your employer. You will still be expected to continue to work, attend college and submit work during college holidays and your training officer will still be available to you.
There is a mandatory requirement for you to be given 20% of your apprenticeship time to complete off job learning. It is important that your employer is supportive of you on your learning journey and ensures that you are giving this time during normal paid working hours.
Throughout your apprenticeship you will be preparing for your end point assessment which is conducted by an external assessment organisation. You and your employer will agree when you can pass into the gateway and begin your end point assessment components:
- Observation of leadership
- Professional discussion
Functional skills, if required, can be completed on your college day release with the functional skills tutors or in the workplace with your training officer.
Entry Requirements & Interview Process
There are no entry requirements, however you will undertake an Initial Assessment to ascertain your suitability for the apprenticeship. If you do not already have GCSE C or 3/4 grades in Maths and English you will be required to complete and achieve Functional Skills as part of the apprenticeship.
