Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship

Those who want to progress their career in the Health and Social Care sector. The Lead Adult Care Worker will be working at a senior level providing high quality, compassionate care and support to enable adults to achieve their personal goals and to live as independently and as safely as possible whilst acting as a role model for more junior staff.

Topics include:

• Safeguarding and protection in adult care settings/services
• Understanding mental capacity and restrictive practice
• Understanding duty of care
• Promoting choice and independence in adult care settings/services
• Supporting individuals with their health and wellbeing
• Understanding personal wellbeing
• Understanding mental capacity and restrictive practice

Apprentices will need to be working towards and achieve the following job role requirements before their end point assessment:

• Help adults with care and support needs to achieve their personal goals and live as independently and safely as possible
• Provide supervision, frontline leadership, guidance and direction for others
• Work autonomously, exercising judgement and accountability.

Next steps: On completion you could progress on to the Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care or into full time employment.

Every employer is different and therefore the entry requirements can vary. As a guide, you ideally need GCSE grade 4 in English and Maths and in some cases ICT. However, we will work with you and provide additional support to help you achieve their requirements, either prior to your Apprenticeship or during the delivery of your programme.

Apprentices have access to all facilities across College. Our Learning Resource Centres (LRCs) give you access to a huge range of online books and resources to help you with your studies.