Level 5 Leader in Adult Care Apprenticeship

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.

You will be a leader of the care team and will develop and implement a values-based culture at a service or unit level. You may be responsible for business development, financial control, organisational resilience and continuity as well as for managing risk and leading on organisational change. A Leader in Adult Care has responsibility for managing community or residential based services. This role has a large element of leadership, whether with other care workers and networks or in leading the service itself. A successful Apprentice will have met all the requirements. You have a responsibility to ensure the service is safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well led.

You may be a registered manager of a service, unit, deputy or assistant manager. You will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance of the care given and the values and training of staff with established standards and regulations.

How we deliver this Apprenticeship

This Apprenticeship is delivered on a one to one basis in your workplace by your own dedicated expert Health and Social Care tutor.

They will meet with you every month (face to face or virtually) to provide teaching and training to help you develop new knowledge and skills and guide you through the programme.

They will then assess your competence by observing you applying the new skills at work and helping you develop a portfolio of evidence to prove you have met the requirements of the Apprenticeship.

Qualifications included in this Apprenticeship

Level 5 Leader in Adult Care Apprenticeship Standard

City and Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care

Functional Skills

Level 2 Functional Skills in English and maths (if required)