Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) (Level 5)
20+
Partners
Multiple
Format
4-6 Month
Duration
The Focus Awards
Awarding body
Funding options
19+ Adult Loan
Overview
Accredited By

Learning Methods
Online
Blended Learning
Course Review

Mandatory Units
- Promote communication
- Promote professional development
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Undertake a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people’s settings
Common Optional Units
- Manage health and social care practice to ensure positive outcomes for individuals
- Safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults
- Understand safeguarding of children and young people for those working in the adult sector
- Lead person-centred practice
- Lead and manage a team within a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Assess the individual in a health and social care setting

Job Sector
- Health and Social Care & Children and Young People
- Care Managers
- Advanced Practitioners
Business Benefits
- This qualification contributes to specialist knowledge, skills and strategic planning of the service you manage. Its purpose is to consolidate your knowledge of the national minimum standards, the codes of practice and legislation that underpins the Health and Social Care sector.
Learner Benefits
- Adults’ Management is suitable for learners who have management responsibility in a range of other settings that are not residential such as domiciliary or day care services
- It is also appropriate for Managers who have not yet achieved a vocational qualification at this level.
- This pathway can be taken for the Higher Apprenticeship in Care Leadership and Management