Overview

The aim of the Level 2 Diploma in Care is to confirm occupational competence for Adult Care Workers or Healthcare Support Workers. This qualification is vocationally based and as such, offers the opportunity for learners to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and practical skills required to be an Adult Care Worker in an adult care setting or a Healthcare Assistant; Support Worker or Personal Assistant in a healthcare support environment.

Entry requirements

The qualification has been designed to be accessible without artificial barriers that restrict access and progression. Entry to the qualifications will be through centre interview and learners must be in a position to demonstrate the requirements of the qualification and have access to required assessment opportunities and relevant resources.

Centres should undertake initial assessment activities with learners to ensure this is an appropriate qualification and they are capable of achieving the level they will be studying at before enrolling them onto a programme of learning.

Learning Outcomes

• Provide career path support to learners who wish to develop their management skills, enterprise capabilities and opportunities in their chosen sector
• Improve learner understanding of any given business environments and organisations and how they are managed and developed
• Develop skills and abilities in learners to support their professional development
• Apply analytical and evaluative techniques and to enhance those skills
• Develop their awareness and appreciation of managerial, organisational and environmental issues
• Use management techniques and practices in imaginative ways
• Make use of relevant information from different sources

Progressions

Gain employment as a Healthcare Assistant/Support Worker or Adult Care Worker/Personal Assistant OR progress onto the Qualifi Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care OR progress onto the Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship.