FAQ Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for England

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation, policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication
• Know about common types of medication and their use
• Understand procedures and techniques for the administration of medication
• Prepare for the administration of medication
• Administer and monitor individuals’ medication

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how legislation and organisational policies impact on the transfer of individuals between agencies and service.
• Apply agency and service procedures correctly in preparing people for and supervising them during transfer from one service to another
• Respect the rights of the individual and value diversity.
• Use communication skills effectively in working with individuals and the agencies and services to which they are being transferred.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the signs and implications of a range of substance misuse related problems
• Understand the range of substance misuse services and interventions
• Prepare for comprehensive substance misuse assessment
• Assess possible risks to the individual
• Assess individuals’ substance misuse and related problems
• Follow up the assessment process

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the range of difference substances and their effects.
• Evaluate individuals’ substance misuse and understanding of substance misuse services.
• Assess individuals’ needs and appropriate interventions.
• Make referrals to substance misuse services.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the causes of infection
• Understand the transmission of infection

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to maintain a clean environment to prevent the spread of infection
• Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process
• Understand the importance of good waste management practice in the prevention of the spread of infection

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors affecting awareness-raising activities about health issues
• Recognise the need for raising awareness of health issues
• Assist in planning activities to raise awareness of health issues
• Contribute to implementing activities for raising awareness of health issues
• Review the effectiveness of activities to raise awareness of health issues

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the context of working in partnership.
• Develop effective working relationships with staff in other agencies
• Sustain effective working relationships.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the factors that may impact on an individual being able to negotiate their environments
• Prepare to support an individual to negotiate an environment
• Support the individual to negotiate an environment
• Evaluate and revise the support provided to an individual to negotiate an environment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how legislation, policies and practice affect the support provided to individuals to manage their behaviour.
• Understand the factors that influence behaviour.
• Work with individuals to recognise the impact of their behaviour on others
• Enable people to develop strategies for changing behavioural responses
• Evaluate and review strategies for changing behavioural responses

What you'll be able to do

• Understand key legislation and agreed ways of working that support the fulfilment of rights and choices of individuals with dementia while minimising risk of harm
• Maximise the rights and choices of individuals with dementia
• Involve carers and others in supporting individuals with dementia
• Maintain the privacy, dignity and respect of individuals with dementia whilst promoting rights and choices

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is required for competence in own work role
• Reflect on practice
• Evaluate own performance
• Agree a personal development plan
• Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that each individual’s experience of dementia is unique
• Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion in dementia care and support
• Work in a person centred manner to ensure inclusivity of the individual with dementia
• Work with others to encourage support for diversity and equality

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of learning and development activities in meeting individual needs
• Identify learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences
• Plan learning and development activities with individuals
• Prepare for learning and development activities
• Facilitate learning and development activities with individuals
• Evaluate and review learning and development activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of person centred assessment and care planning
• Facilitate person centred assessment
• Contribute to the planning of care or support
• Support the implementation of care plans
• Monitor a care plans
• Facilitate a review of care plans and their implementation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a first aider
• Assess an incident
• Manage an unresponsive casualty who is breathing normally
• Manage an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing normally
• Recognise and assist a casualty who is chocking
• Manage a casualty with external bleeding
• Manage a casualty who is in shock
• Manage a casualty with a minor injury

What you'll be able to do

• Identify agreed ways to gain entry to and leave individuals' homes
• Gain entry to individuals’ homes
• Take appropriate action when unable to gain entry to individuals' homes
• Deal with emergencies encountered after gaining entry
• Ensure security when leaving individuals’ homes
• Review procedures for entering and leaving individuals' homes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the background relating to substance use to support the development of an action plan.
• Develop an action plan with individuals.
• Review the action plan with individuals.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify immediate risk of danger to substance misusers
• Act upon immediate risk of danger to substance misusers

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to assess the physical health needs of individuals with mental health needs
• Carry out assessments of the physical health needs of individuals with mental health needs
• Record the outcome of assessments
• Plan actions needed following physical health assessments
• Identify resources and services needed by individuals following physical health assessments
• Make referrals

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the context of the Positive Behavioural Support model.
• Understand the term ‘challenging behaviour’.
• Understand the context in which challenging behaviour occurs.
• Contribute to the functional analysis in relation to an individual's challenging behaviour.
• Understand the key characteristics of Positive Behavioural Support.
• Implement primary prevention strategies.
• Use a person centred approach to develop plans that promote participation.
• Implement secondary prevention strategies.
• Implement non aversive reactive strategies.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of therapeutic group activities
• Plan and prepare for therapeutic group activities
• Support individuals during therapeutic group activities
• Contribute to the evaluation of therapeutic group activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and policy relevant to substance use
• Understand substance use, its effects and treatments
• Identify individuals’ knowledge and values about substances
• Increase individuals’ knowledge and understanding of substances

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legal and local requirements relating to the use of telecommunications when supporting individuals
• Use telecommunication technology
• Engage with individuals using telecommunications
• Identify and evaluate any risks or dangers for individuals during the interaction
• Terminate the interaction

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the meaning of personalisation in social care
• Understand systems that support personalisation
• Understand how personalisation affects the way support is provided
• Understand how to implement personalisation

What you'll be able to do

• Know what to do when faced with practice dilemmas
• Deal positively with conflict
• Maintain accurate records
• Prioritise competing work commitments
• Use personal value base and power appropriately
• Use supervision as a tool to reflect and improve practice
• Use local and national networks
• Respond to concerns of abuse

What you'll be able to do

• Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to moving and positioning individuals
• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when moving and positioning individuals
• Minimise risk before moving and positioning individuals
• Prepare individuals before moving and positioning
• Move and position an individual
• Know when to seek advice from and/or involve others when moving and positioning an individual

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation, policy and good practice related to obtaining venous blood samples.
• Understand the anatomy and physiology relating to obtaining venous blood samples.
• Prepare to obtain venous blood samples.
• Obtain venous blood samples.
• Prepare venous blood samples for transportation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to prepare and manage environments and resources for use during healthcare activities
• Prepare environments, medical equipment, devices and resources for use during healthcare activities
• Ensure that environments and resourcesare ready for their next intended use

What you'll be able to do

• Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to extended feeding
• Understand extended feeding techniques
• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when using extended feeding techniques
• Manage risks relating to extended feeding
• Prepare for extended feeding
• Carry out and complete extended feeding techniques
• Maintain records and report on extended feeding

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how shared lives arrangements can benefit individuals
• Access and share information relevant to the provision of a shared lives arrangement for individuals
• Address the potential impact on key people of providing a shared lives arrangement
• Carry out an analysis of own development needs before supporting an individual in a shared lives arrangement

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
• Address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
• Respond to complaints

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise signs of abuse.
• Respond to suspected or alleged abuse.
• Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse.
• Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse.
• Recognise and report unsafe practices.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand self-directed support
• Understand how to support an individual to direct their own support and develop their support plan
• Understand the different ways that people can use their personal budget
• Understand the outcome focused review process

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene
• Encourage an individual to maintain personal hygiene
• Support an individual to maintain personal hygiene
• Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other underlying personal issues

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the development of human sexuality
• Understand how the sexual development of individuals’ with a learning disability can differ
• Understand the issues of sexual health and how these can be supported
• Understand relevant legislation influencing the support of sexuality and sexual health for individuals with learning disabilities
• Support the sexual expression of an individual with a learning disability

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the steps and stages of moving from childhood into adulthood.
• Understand how having a disability may affect the process of moving from childhood into adulthood.
• Know the options for supporting a young person who has a disability to make the transition into adulthood.
• Understand how to support a young person with a disability through a successful transition.
• Understand the importance of supporting a young person and their family to reflect on the transition.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how active support translates values into person-centred practical action with an individual
• Interact positively with individuals to promote participation
• Develop and implement person-centred daily plans to promote participation
• Use person-centred records to evaluate an individual’s participation in activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
• Carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
• Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
• Reduce the spread of infection
• Move and handle equipment and other objects safely
• Handle hazardous substances and materials
• Promote fire safety in the work setting
• Implement security measures in the work setting
• Manage stress

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
• Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
• Overcome barriers to communication
• Apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of effective two way communication
• Understand different methods that can support communication with individuals with sensory loss
• Support the individual with communication
• Evaluate the effectiveness of methods of communication used to support an individual with sensory loss

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
• Work in an inclusive way
• Promote diversity, equality and inclusion

What you'll be able to do

• Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings
• Implement good practice in handling information
• Support others to handle information

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the application of person centred approaches in health and social care
• Work in a person-centred way
• Establish consent when providing care or support
• Implement and promote active participation
• Support the individual’s right to make choices
• Promote individuals well-being
• Understand the role of risk assessment in enabling a person centred approach

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relate to positive behaviour support.
• Understand the context and use of proactive and reactive strategies.
• Promote positive behaviour.
• Respond appropriately to incidents of challenging behaviour.
• Support individuals and others following an incident of challenging behaviour.
• Review and revise approaches to promoting positive behaviour.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how active support translates values into person-centred practical action with an individual
• Interact positively with individuals to promote participation
• Implement person-centred daily plans to promote participation
• Maintain person- centred records of participation

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the available support services.
• Understand issues that affect children and young people within families affected by drug and alcohol use.
• Identify options for individuals affected by someone else’s substance use.
• Enable individuals affected by someone else’s substance use to review the effectiveness of selected options.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to establish the needs, background, experiences, wishes, preferences and choices of an individual
• Identify how an individual’s needs can be met through a shared lives arrangement
• Address potential power imbalances in a shared lives arrangement
• Assist individuals to adjust to the home environment
• Support key people to adjust to a shared lives arrangement
• Contribute to on-going review of the shared lives arrangement

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of supporting individuals to continue recommended therapies
• Encourage individuals to complete activities recommended by therapists
• Support individuals to continue recommended therapy
• Observe, record and report on observations during recommended therapy
• Contribute to evaluation and review of recommended therapies

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the context of supporting skills for everyday life
• Support individuals to plan for maintaining and developing skills for everyday life
• Support individuals to retain, regain or develop skills for everyday life
• Evaluate support for developing or maintaining skills for everyday life

What you'll be able to do

• Understand approaches to managing pain and discomfort
• Assist in minimising individuals’ pain or discomfort
• Monitor, record and report on the management of individuals’ pain or discomfort

What you'll be able to do

• Establish safe boundaries to maintain the Advocacy relationship
• Establish the Advocacy relationship
• Assist the individual receiving Advocacy support to explore and make choices
• Construct an action plan
• Support the individual receiving Advocacy support to self advocate
• Act on the instruction of the person receiving Advocacy support
• Review and end the Advocacy relationship

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Independent Advocacy
• Explain principles and values underpinning Independent Advocacy
• Describe the development of Advocacy
• Explain different types of Advocacy support and their purpose
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of an Independent Advocate
• Understand Advocacy standards

What you'll be able to do

• Recognise indications of substance misuse.
• Assess and monitor risk.
• Handle information and maintain records.
• Refer individuals to appropriate services.

What you'll be able to do

• Make Advocacy accessible to individuals and different groups
• Define social exclusion
• Explain the medical and social model of disability
• Promote diversity
• Use non instructed Advocacy

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the common medications available to, and appropriate for, individuals with diabetes
• Understand monitoring techniques for individuals with diabetes
• Support individuals with diabetes through the use of medication using a person-centred approach
• Provide on going support in urine monitoring for individuals with diabetes
• Provide on going support in blood glucose monitoring for individuals with diabetes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand policy and procedures for the supply and exchange of injecting equipment
• Conduct initial assessment of substance users and provide relevant advice
• Supply and exchange injecting equipment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them
• Contribute to establishing the nature of specific communication needs of individuals and ways to address them
• Interact with individuals using their preferred communication
• Promote communication between individuals and others
• Support the use of communication technology and aids
• Review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided to address them

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of social interactions and relationships for families of people with specific needs
• Understand the issues surrounding discrimination
• Support families to access opportunities for social contact within their wider social structures
• Support families to maintain social contacts within their wider social structures

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact on families who care for an individual who is in a minimally responsive or vegetative state
• Understand the long term effects of acquired brain injury on family
• Understand legislation that is relevant to carers of an individual effected by acquired brain injury
• Assess the support required by families who hold the primary caring role
• Work in partnership with other professionals and agencies

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact on a family of having a child with a disability
• Support families who have a child with a disability
• Support families with a child with a disability to use informal networks and community resources
• Work in partnership with other professionals and agencies to support families with a child with a disability

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the requirements of legislation and agreed ways of working to protect the rights of individuals at the end of life,
• Understand factors affecting end of life care,
• Understand advance care planning in relation to end of life care,
• Provide support to individuals and key people during end of life care,
• Understand how to address sensitive issues in relation to end of life care,
• Understand the role of organisations and support services available to individuals and key people in relation to end of life care,
• Access support for the individual or key people from the wid

What you'll be able to do

• Understand reasons for and responses to change
• Support individuals to plan how to manage or adapt to change
• Support individuals to manage or adapt to change
• Evaluate the support provided during a period of change

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the range, purpose and effectiveness of assistive technology available to support individuals
• Support the selection of assistive technology with individuals
• Support the use of assistive technology aids with an individual
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the use of assistive technology to meet identified outcomes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors affecting the capacity of individuals to develop and/or maintain relationships.
• Support individuals to identify beneficial relationships.
• Support individuals to develop new relationships.
• Support individuals to maintain existing relationships.
• Work with individuals to review the support provided for relationships.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how assessments should be undertaken
• Introduce individuals to detoxification programmes
• Develop and review detoxification treatment and care plans
• Manage closure of individuals’ detoxification programmes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of direct payments
• Support individuals to decide whether to use direct payments
• Provide support to select services to be purchased with direct payments
• Provide support for completing paperwork associated with direct payments
• Understand how to address difficulties, dilemmas and conflicts relating to direct payments
• Contribute to reviewing the support provided through direct payments
• Contribute to reviewing the management of direct payments

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors that influence individuals’ access to services and facilities
• Support individuals to select services and facilities
• Support individuals to access and use services and facilities
• Support individuals’ to review their access to and use of services and facilities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the value of engagement in training, education or employment for individuals
• Understand how legislation, guidance and codes of practice support an individual to access training, education or employment
• Understand the support available to individuals accessing education, training or employment
• Support an individual to identify and access education, training or employment that meet needs and preferences
• Support individuals to undertake education, training or employmen
• Evaluate engagement in education, training or employment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand support available to access housing and accommodation services
• Work with individuals to identify housing and accommodation services that meet their needs
• Work with individuals to plan to access housing and accommodation services
• Work with individuals to access housing and accommodation services
• Work with housing and accommodation services to meet the needs of individuals
• Contribute to the review of housing and accommodation services for individuals

What you'll be able to do

• Support individuals to assess relationship problems.
• Support individuals to overcome relationship problems.
• Know how and when to access specialist support about relationship problems.
• Support individuals to end unhelpful relationships.
• Evaluate the support provided for relationship problems.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of support groups
• Support individuals to assess the need for additional support groups
• Support individuals to develop their own support groups
• Support individuals to run support groups
• Support individuals to evaluate support groups

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of supporting individuals to live at home
• Contribute to planning support for living at home
• Work with individuals to secure additional services and facilities to enable them to live at home
• Work in partnership to introduce additional services for individuals living at home
• Contribute to reviewing support for living at home

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene
• Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene
• Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other underlying personal issues

What you'll be able to do

• Access information and advice about financial affairs
• Provide support for individuals to manage their finances
• Contribute to applying for financial assistance
• Contribute to reviewing support for managing finances

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors affecting a move to a new home environment
• Support individuals to prepare to move into new home environments
• Support individuals to settle into new home environments
• Support individuals to review the impact of new home environments

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the effects of bereavement on individuals
• Understand principles for supporting individuals who are bereaved
• Support individuals to express their response to loss
• Support individuals who are bereaved
• Understand the role of specialist agencies in supporting individuals who are bereaved
• Manage own feelings when providing support for individuals who are bereaved

What you'll be able to do

• Understand about different substances, their effects and how they might be used.
• Enable individuals to adopt safe practices associated with substance use.
• Support individuals when they have used substances.
• Support individuals in reducing substance use.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation, policies and guidance relevant to individuals with learning disabilities accessing healthcare
• Understand the function of different healthcare services that an individual with learning disabilities may need to access
• Understand the role of professionals within different healthcare services that a person with learning disabilities may need to access
• Understand how plans for healthcare and regular health checks underpin long-term health and well-being for individuals with learning disabilities
• Complete and review plans for healthcare
• Understand the issues t

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact of multiple conditions and/or disabilities on individuals
• Understand own role in supporting individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Understand the support available for individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Assist individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Evaluate the support provided to an individual to engage in activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand self-directed support
• Understand how to support individuals to direct their own support and develop their support plan
• Understand the different ways that individuals can use their personal budget
• Support individuals to direct their support
• Support individuals to use their personal budget in different ways
• Support individuals with an outcome-focused review

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislative and policy frameworks that underpins good practice in the support of parents with disabilities
• Understand the support parents with disabilities may need
• Support parents with disabilities
• Support individuals with disabilities to overcome the barriers they may face in becoming parents and bringing up children
• Develop positive working relationships with parents with disabilities
• Work in partnership with other workers, different services and informal support networks
• Understand how to maintain the primary focus on safegua

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and practice of person-centred thinking, planning and reviews.
• Understand the context within which person-centred thinking and planning takes place.
• Understand own role in person-centred planning.
• Apply person-centred planning in relation to own life.
• Implement person-centred thinking, planning and reviews.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of risk taking in everyday life
• Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk assessment
• Understand the legal and policy framework underpinning an individual’s right to make decisions and take risks
• Support individuals to make decisions about risks
• Support individuals to take risks
• Understand duty of care in relation to supporting positive risk-taking

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the range and purpose of assessment available to individuals with sensory loss
• Understand own role and role of others in relation to the assessment of individuals with sensory loss
• Support the assessment of individuals with sensory loss
• Recognise the impact of assessment on the service delivery and an individual’s well being and quality of life

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of community partnerships
• Identify where community partnerships could inform and support practice
• Bring people together to set up community partnerships
• Support the setting up of community partnerships
• Contribute to the running of community partnerships
• Contribute to the review of community partnerships

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of promoting awareness of sensory loss
• Understand the role played by self and others in promoting awareness of sensory loss
• Provide information that promotes awareness of sensory loss
• Use information to promote awareness of sensory loss

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings
• Know about common types of medication and their use
• Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings
• Understand techniques for administering medication
• Receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely
• Promote the rights of the individual when managing medication
• Support use of medication
• Record and report on use of medication

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the steps and stages of moving from childhood into adulthood
• Understand how having a disability may affect the process of moving from childhood into adulthood
• Know the options for supporting a young person who has a disability to make the transition into adulthood
• Support a young person with a disability through transition into adulthood
• Support a young person to reflect on the transition

What you'll be able to do

• Prepare to test individuals for substance use.
• Test for substances.
• Communicate outcomes of testing for substances.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections
• Understand legislation and policies relating to prevention and control of infections
• Understand systems and procedures relating to the prevention and control of infections
• Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections
• Understand the importance of using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the prevention and control of infections
• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene in the prevention and control of infections

What you'll be able to do

• Understand working relationships in health and social care.
• Work in ways that are agreed with the employer.
• Work in partnership with others.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand cardiovascular risk to the individual with diabetes
• Understand the relationship between neuropathy and diabetes
• Understand the relationship between nephropathy and diabetes
• Understand the support needs of an individual with retinopathy and diabetes
• Understand factors relating to the prevention of conditions associated with diabetes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the difference between models of disability
• Understand how the adoption of models of disability can shape an individual’s identity and experience
• Understand how the adoption of models of disability can shape service delivery

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of differentiating between the individual and the disability
• Understand the concept of physical disability
• Understand the impact of living with a physical disability within society
• Understand the importance of promoting inclusion and independence

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the factors that impact on an individual with sensory loss
• Understand the importance of effective communication for individuals with sensory loss
• Understand the main causes and conditions of sensory loss
• Recognise when an individual may be experiencing sight and / or hearing loss and actions that may be taken

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the factors that can affect interactions and communication of individuals with dementia
• Communicate with an individual with dementia using a range of verbal and non-verbal techniques
• Communicate positively with an individual who has dementia by valuing their individuality
• Use positive interaction approaches with individuals with dementia

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nutritional needs that are unique to individuals with dementia
• Understand the effect that that mealtime environments can have on an individual with dementia
• Support an individual with dementia to enjoy good nutrition

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions
• Understand how autistic spectrum conditions can impact on the lives of individuals and those around them
• Understand different theories and concepts about autism
• Understand the legal and policy framework that underpins good practice in the support of individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
• Understand how to achieve effective communication with individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
• Understand how to support individuals with an autistic spectrum condition

What you'll be able to do

• Know the main forms of mental ill health
• Know the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social network

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the different views on the nature of mental well-being and mental health and the factors that may influence both across the life span
• Implement an effective strategy for promoting mental well-being and mental health with individuals and groups

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that individuals with disabilities have the same right as everyone else to take risks
• Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk assessment
• Understand the legal and policy framework underpinning an individual with disabilities right to make decisions and take risks
• Understand the importance of considering with an individual with disabilities the risks associated with the choices they make
• Understand the importance of a partnership approach to risk taking

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the common medications available to, and appropriate for, individuals with dementia
• Understand how to provide person centred care to individuals with dementia through the appropriate and effective use of medication

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities
• Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disability
• Understand the historical context of learning disability
• Understand the basic principles and practice of advocacy, empowerment and active participation in relation to supporting individuals with learning disabilities and their families
• Understand how views and attitudes impact on the lives of individuals with learning disabilities and their family carers
• Promote communication with individu

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the concept of diversity and its relevance to working with individuals who have dementia.
• Understand that each individual’s experience of dementia is unique.
• Understand the importance of working in a person centred way and how this links to inclusion.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Acquired Brain Injury
• Understand the impact on individuals of Acquired Brain Injury
• Understand the specialist communication needs of an individual with Acquired Brain Injury
• Understand the impact that personality changes can have on an individual and those providing support
• Understand the impact of challenging behaviour

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the neurology of dementia.
• Understand the impact of recognition and diagnosis of dementia.
• Understand how dementia care must be underpinned by a person centred approach.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that individuals with dementia may communicate in different ways.
• Understand the importance of positive interactions with individuals with dementia.
• Understand the factors which can affect interactions and communication of individuals with dementia.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the relevance of relationship theories to health and social care practice.
• Understand the impact of relationships and social networks on well-being and self esteem.
• Understand factors that can influence the process of a relationship.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the anatomy and physiology of the skin in relation to pressure area care
• Understand good practice in relation to own role when undertaking pressure area care
• Follow the agreed care plan
• Understand the use of materials, equipment and resources are available when undertaking pressure area care
• Prepare to undertake pressure area care
• Undertake pressure area care

What you'll be able to do

• Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice for undertaking physiological measurements
• Understand the physiological states that can be measured
• Prepare to take physiological measurements
• Undertake physiological measurements
• Record and report results of physiological measurements

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the need for tissue viability risk assessment
• Undertake tissue viability risk assessment
• Record and report on tissue viability risk assessment
• Understand when the risk assessment should be reviewed

What you'll be able to do

• Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice in relation to carrying out urethral catheterisation
• Understand the relevant anatomy and physiology
• Prepare to insert urethral catheters
• Insert urethral catheters
• Monitor and care for the urethral catheter after insertion
• Care for and support the individual during and after the procedure

What you'll be able to do

• Understand partnership working with families
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with families
• Plan shared approaches to the care and support of individuals with families
• Work with families to access support in their role as carers
• Exchange and record information about partnership work with families
• Contribute to reviewing partnership work with families
• Provide feedback about support for families

What you'll be able to do

• Understand relevant legislation, policy and practice when working with individuals, carers and families in times of crisis
• Develop risk management strategies when working with individuals, carers and families in times of crisis
• Respond during times of crisis
• Review the outcomes of requests for action during times of crisis

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the contribution that other professionals and agencies can make to support individuals with physical disabilities
• Assess the needs of individuals with physical disabilities for inclusive social care provision
• Demonstrate partnership working