Leader In Adult Care

Leader In Adult Care

On a leader in adult care apprenticeship course, you’ll help guide and inspire care workers to make positive differences in the lives of those facing challenges.

Adult care directors manage community or residential services and may work in nursing homes, domiciliary care, community day centres, a person’s own home, or specific clinical healthcare settings.

This job requires excellent leadership with other caregivers and networks or administering the service itself. Throughout the apprenticeship, you will learn how to ensure that the service is safe, effective, compassionate, sensitive to people’s needs, and well-led.

Working as a registered manager of a service unit, deputy manager, or assistant manager is an option. Whatever role you hold, you will ensure regulatory compliance of the care given, as well as staff values and training in line with established standards and regulations. You may work at a residential or nursing home, a domiciliary care facility, a daycare centre, a person’s home, or a clinical healthcare environment.

What you’ll learn

On a leader in adult care apprenticeship course, you’ll learn to:

  • Create and put in place the systems and processes needed to ensure compliance with legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
  • Implement ways to help others manage risk while balancing individual rights and professional responsibility.
  • Create and implement systems and processes for assessing, planning, and delivering services to monitor and maintain service quality.
  • Lead and support others in working person-centeredly and guaranteeing active participation that enhances people’s well-being and quality of life.
  • Encourage and let both staff and people receiving care and help to engage in the co-creation of how the service operates.
  • Manage all resources so that complex care and support may be provided efficiently and effectively.
  • Create and oversee the execution of organisational initiatives to create and sustain a workplace culture that actively promotes dignity and values, diversity, inclusion, and justice.
  • Create and manage a culture that recognises and encourages courage in working in ways that may conflict with workers’ own cultural and religious beliefs.
  • Create and implement organisational processes to ensure that records and reports are generated clearly and concisely while keeping information safe and private.
  • Implement methods to educate and support colleagues in recognising and responding to potential signs of abuse or dangerous behaviour while following organisational norms and procedures.
  • Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the organisation’s safeguarding policies, procedures, and processes.
  • Lead the implementation of health and social care policies, procedures, and practices to manage people’s and others’ health, safety, and risk to ensure compliance with legislation, standards, and recommendations.
  • Implement health and safety policies, procedures, and practices, as well as risk management policies, processes, and practices, to create an organisational culture that priorities health and well-being.
  • Monitor, analyse and improve the service’s health, safety, and risk management policies and procedures.
  • Use evaluated research and evidence-based practice in your setting.
  • Attempt to research and disseminate current elder care landscape drivers.
  • Implement methods to improve one’s own and/or colleagues’ performance via supervision, reflective practice, and opportunities for learning and development.
  • Model a values-based culture by showing a strong awareness of one’s behaviour and its impact on others.
  • Create a supportive atmosphere that promotes initiative and innovation while also recognising the varied skills of everyone in the service, both workers and those who are aided.
  • Adopt a team mentality, recognise the contributions of team members and be able to lead a team when required.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

  • Depending on the employer, but likely A-levels or equivalent qualifications or relevant experience.
  • Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two distinct assessment methods: 

  • Observation of Practice. 
  • Professional Discussion. 

Restrictions and requirements

You’ll need to:

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

  • Duration: 18 months
  • Level: 5 – Higher Apprenticeship
  • Relevant school subjects: Science
  • Potential salary upon completion: £27,000

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 5 Leader In Adult Care Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.

Updated on January 17, 2024

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