Leadership and Management:
Practice (Children and Young People)
Level 5
Level 5 Apprenticeship Leadership and Management
The Level 5 Leadership and Management of Health and Social Care: Practice qualification will enable learners to develop and demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, behaviours, skills and practice within a health and social care setting.
Contents
Apprenticeship Framework
Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management/ Level 5 CYP Leadership and Management
Essential Skills Qualifications
Welsh Language Development
Apprenticeship Framework
This qualification is for those in a leadership or management role within the Health and Social Care sector. This qualification is practice-based and assesses learners’ knowledge and practice. It is designed for learners in work-based learning.
The programme prepares learners for roles such as:
• Setting Manager
• Deputy Manager
Who is this apprenticeship for?
The qualification will assess learners’ knowledge and practice through their work.
Learners are required to complete the Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care qualification (or an agreed comparable qualification) prior to taking this qualification.
Successful completion of this qualification will enable learners to apply for registration with SCW as a Registered Manager, providing that they also meet all other registration requirements.
Overview
The Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management is completed in the first 12 months, and learners will continue onto the Level 5 Leadership and Management for the remainder of time on programme. This is a framework and cannot be completed as a stand-alone qualification.
The Level 5 Leadership and Management of Health and Social Care: Practice qualification will enable learners to develop and demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, behaviours, skills and practice within a health and social care setting.
In particular, learners should be able to demonstrate that they:
• understand and apply in practice a range of leadership and management concepts, theories and techniques;
• reflect on their own and others’ leadership and management styles and understand how this impacts those they work with, both within and outside of their setting;
• lead and manage performance improvement in health and social care settings;
• lead and manage person/child-centred approaches in practice;
• lead and manage the improvement of service within health and social care
• work as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers to make informed judgements which includes using and interpreting data;
• use communication, numeracy and digital competency skills as appropriate within their role.
On completion of this apprenticeship you will achieve the following:
• Apprenticeship Level 5 Diploma in CYP
• Level 2/3 Essential Skills
• Prentis-iaith Welsh Language Development
On the following pages, you will find information relating to the main qualification (Level 5 CYP), as well as other aspects that will make up this apprenticeship programme, including Essential Skills and Welsh Language Development.
Level 5 Leadership and Management of Health and Social Care: Practice
This is the qualification you will be completing alongside your employment within an Early Years setting.
Length of time to complete
We will tailor your learning programmes to suit your needs, so that each learner’s experience is unique. While learner’s needs will be different, the recommended time to complete this programme is 24 months (12 months each for both the Level 4 and Level 5 qualifications).
Course Delivery
This qualification is run in cohorts, which start in February and September each year.
The Preparing for Leadership and Management level 4 programme will primarily be delivered through mandatory workshops, 1-to-1 sessions with a member of the ACT delivery team, using a mixture of face-to-face and remote learning sessions. An ACT assessor will meet with the learner, either in the workplace or through digital means (for example, Microsoft Teams) once a month for approximately 2 hours to support progress.
Learners will also be set tasks to complete between each visit, for approximately 4 hours per month (please note – this is just a guide and will vary based on learner needs).
Examples of some of the tasks that might be set by our assessors include:
• Analyse legislation linked to Safeguarding within your setting
• Evaluate team performance against relevant theory
The use of Office 365 and related tools will be essential to the course. With participants being set tasks which will allow them to practice and demonstrate their learnt skills in the workplace. All of these workshops can be made bespoke for your business needs, at your workplace or ACT’s Head Office, provided there are a sufficient number of learners.
What you will learn
(Please note that this section is split into 2 sections to give an overview of the Level 4 and Level 5 qualifications)
Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care
The Level 4 qualification will enable learners to develop and demonstrate their knowledge, skills and understanding in the context of health and social care settings. In particular, learners will be able to demonstrate that they:
• Understand a range of leadership and management concepts, theories and techniques
• Understand different leadership and management styles and how these influence practice within services
• Understand how to lead person/child-centred approaches in practice
• Are able to work as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers to make informed judgements which includes using and interpreting data
• Have an awareness of how to lead, manage and improve service within health and social care.
Mandatory Units
• Legislation, theories and models of person/child-centred practice
• Theoretical frameworks for leadership and management in health and social care
• Leadership and management of effective team performance in health and social care services
A minimum of 60 credits must be achieved from the mandatory group. The minimum guided learning hour for this qualification is 335 hours.
Level 5 Leadership and Management of Health and Social Care: Practice
The Level 5 qualification will enable learners to develop and demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, behaviours, skills and practice within a health and social care setting. In particular, learners should be able to demonstrate that they:
• Understand and apply in practice a range of leadership and management concepts, theories and techniques
• Reflect on their own and others’ leadership and management styles and understand how this impacts those they work with, both within and outside of their setting
• Lead and manage performance improvement in health and social care settings
• Lead and manage person/child-centred approaches in practice
• Lead and manage the improvement of service within health and social care
• Work as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers to make informed judgements which includes using and interpreting data
• Use communication, numeracy and digital competency skills as appropriate within their role
To achieve the Level 5 Leadership and Management of Health and Social Care: Practice qualification learners must achieve a minimum of 120 credits in total, and the minimum guided learning hours for this qualification is 395.
Mandatory Units – Group A (20 credits must be achieved from this group)
• Lead and manage person/child-centred practice
• Lead and manage person/child-centred practice through independent advocacy
Mandatory Units – Group B (70 credits must be achieved from this group)
• Lead and manage effective team performance
• Lead and manage the quality of service provision to meet legislative, regulatory and organisational requirements
• Professional practice
• Lead and manage practice that promotes the safeguarding of individuals
• Lead and manage health, safety and security in the work setting
Optional units* (30 credits must be achieved from this group)
Learners may only achieve credits for 1 of the following:
· Lead and manage work with carers
Lead support for carers If learners take both units as part of this qualification.
* Don’t worry! During the first visit/meeting, our assessors’ work with all learners and employers to review which of the optional units are the most appropriate for your programme.
Have any questions about our Level 5 Leadership and Management CYP?
We are here to help. If you have any further questions or enquiries about the main qualification element of the programme, please contact our Route Manager:
Helen Clarke Route Manager for CCPLD, CYP & PW helenclarke@acttraining.org.uk
Essential Skills Qualifications
When you agree to undertake an apprenticeship, you may be required to complete Essential Skills as part of your apprenticeship framework.
What are Essential Skills?
The Essential Skills Wales (ESW) will be initially assessed via an online Wales Essential Skills Toolkit (WEST) Assessment. If a Learner already holds an ESW certificate or equivalent qualification this can provide a proxy and learners will not need to complete that ESW element of the programme. Where a Learner is not exempt an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) will be generated from the initial WEST assessment. The modules delivery will include independent learning via WEST, prior to guided learning sessions preparing the Learner for their assessment. ESWs are assessed via controlled tasks and confirmatory tests for Communication and Application of Number, Digital Literacy is assessed via a controlled task and structured discussion.
Proxy
If you already hold qualifications, these may be used as ‘proxy’ towards your apprenticeship framework. As a result, you will be exempt from achieving that particular Essential Skill, if you wish. This will be discussed with you before you sign up. Below are some examples, although this list is not exhaustive.
Welsh Language Development
As part of your Welsh Government funded framework, you will be supported to develop and maintain your Welsh language skills for the workplace.
What is Welsh Language Development?
ACT are committed to playing their part in the Welsh Government Million Speakers strategy. All learners will complete the Prentis-iaith Welsh Language Development course as part of your framework with us.
Don’t panic – this is as a means of development and is aimed to support you with the development of your Welsh Language skills. This course is specially designed to give apprentices a basic knowledge of Welsh for the workplace and consists of 6 interactive modules to complete online. The course will be completed throughout your framework, with support from your assessor.
Already bilingual?
If you are Welsh speaking you will undertake your learning bilingually. In practice this means that you can choose the elements of your learning that you would like to complete through the medium of Welsh. You will be able to discuss your particular preferences with your assessor.