Highfield Qualifications · RQF Level 5
Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services (England) (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits90
- Guided learning586 hours
- Units in this qualification34
Awarded by Highfield Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Highfield Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Champion equality, diversity and inclusionReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand diversity, equality and inclusion in own area of responsibility
- Champion diversity, equality and inclusion
- Understand how to develop systems and processes that promote diversity, equality and inclusion
- Manage the risks presented when balancing individual rights and professional duty of care
Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young peopleReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of current legislation that underpins the safeguarding of children and young people
- Support the review of policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Implement policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Lead practice in supporting children and young people’s wellbeing and resilience
Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the current legislative framework and organisational health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices that are relevant to health, and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement and monitor compliance with health, safety and risk management requirements in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Lead the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to manage risk to individuals and others in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Promote a culture where
Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Understand how the principles of professional supervision can be used to inform performance management in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Undertake the preparation for professional supervision with supervisees in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Provide professional supervision in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Manage conflict situ
Develop provision for family supportReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key policies and legislative frameworks that govern the provision of family support in UK home nation
- Develop provision for family support
- Implement provision for family support
- Support others to establish positive relationships with families
Facilitate change in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of change management in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Facilitate a shared understanding of the need for change in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Develop an approved change management plan in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Gain support for a proposed change in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement approved change management plans in health and social care or children and young people’s settin
Facilitate coaching and mentoring of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of coaching and mentoring practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Promote coaching and mentoring of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Identify the coaching and mentoring needs of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Implement coaching and mentoring activities in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Review the outcomes of coaching and mentoring in health and social care o
Independent Advocacy with Children and Young PeopleReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Provide Independent Advocacy support to children and young people
- Use UK, European and International legislation to promote children’s rights
- Respond to requests for Advocacy support
- Assist the child or young person to explore choices and potential consequence
- Support children and young people through a range of meetings and decision making processes
- Engage with professionals
- Use child protection systems to keep children and young people safe
Lead and manage a team within a health and social care or children and young people’s settingReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of effective team performance within a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Support a positive culture within the team for a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Support a shared vision within the team for a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Develop a plan with team members to meet agreed objectives for a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Support individual team members to work towards agreed objectives in a health and
Lead and manage group living for childrenReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal, policy, rights and theoretical framework for group living for children and young people
- Lead the planning, implementation and review of daily living activities for children and young people
- Promote positive outcomes in a group living environment
- Manage a positive group living environment
- Safeguard children and young people in a group living environment
Lead positive behavioural supportReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theoretical background and current policy context of Positive Behavioural Support
- Conduct a functional analysis of an individual requiring Positive Behavioural Support
- Design and lead person-centred, primary prevention strategies
- Design and lead secondary prevention strategies
- Assess the appropriateness of reactive strategy use
- Lead the implementation of a Positive Behavioural Support Plan
- Manage and review the implementation of Positive Behavioural Support Plans
Lead practice in promoting the well being and resilience of children and young peopleReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how different approaches to promoting positive well being and resilience in children and young people impact on practice
- Lead practice in supporting children and young people’s well being and resilience
- Lead practice in work with carers who are supporting children and young people
- Lead practice in responding to the health needs of children and young people
- Lead the development of practice with children or young people to promote their well being and resilience
Lead practice that supports positive outcomes for child and young person developmentReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theoretical approaches to child and young person development
- Lead and support developmental assessment of children and young people
- Develop and implement programmes with children or young people requiring developmental support
- Evaluate programmes for children or young people requiring developmental support
- Lead and promote support for children experiencing transitions
- Lead positive behaviour support
Lead support for disabled children and young people and their carersReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how legislation and policy influences provision for disabled children and young people and their carers
- Understand the potential impact of disability on children and young people and their carers
- Lead child and young person centred provision
- Work in partnership with others to promote services for children and young people and their carers
Manage an inter-professional team in a health and social care or children and young people’s settingReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of inter-professional working within health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Manage service objectives through the inter-professional team in health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Promote inter-professional team working in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Manage processes for inter-professional work with individuals in health and social care or children and young people's setting
- Evaluate the effectiveness of inter-professional team work in hea
Manage business redesign in health and social care or children or young people’s servicesReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the wider market of provision of health and social care or children or young people’s services in relation to a work setting.
- Work with others to support business redesign.
- Develop a plan for business redesign.
- Implement a plan for business redesign.
Manage disciplinary processes in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage disciplinary processes in relation to health and social care or children and young people’s settings.
- Manage staff practice which falls below professional and/or organisational standards.
- Compile and present evidence for a disciplinary proceeding.
- Manage the outcomes of a disciplinary process.
Manage finance within own area of responsibility in health and social care or children and young people's settingReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand financial management in own work setting
- Plan budget requirement for own area of responsibility
- Manage a budget
- Evaluate financial expenditure within own area of responsibility
Manage quality in health and social care or children and young people's settingReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of quality assurance in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Implement quality standards in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
- Lead the evaluation of quality processes in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting
Professional practice in health and social care for adults or children and young peopleReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories that underpin practice within health and social care.
- Lead the implementation of values, principles and statutory frameworks that underpin service provision in own area of work.
- Use evidence based practice in the provision of health and social care services.
- Engage others in reflective practice.
Provide information about health and social care or children and young people’s servicesReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a plan to provide information about own organisation and its services.
- Provide information about own organisation and its services.
- Evaluate information provided to stakeholders.
Provide support to children or young people who have experienced harm or abuseReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of self and others when supporting children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
- Support children or young people who disclose harm or abuse.
- Support children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
- Work with others to support the safe involvement of key people with children or young people who have experienced harm or abuse.
Providing Independent Advocacy ManagementReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Manage Advocacy services
- Implement record keeping systems
- Recruit and induct Independent Advocates
- Facilitate service user involvement in the running of the Independent Advocacy Service
- Construct a business plan
- Measure Advocacy outcomes
- Negotiate a Service Level Agreement
- Establish relationships with commissioners of Advocacy services
- Promote Independent Advocacy and the service
Providing Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy-Deprivation of Liberty SafeguardsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation which affects people who may be subject to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards or the formal provisions of the Mental Health Act
- Provide the statutory IMCA DOLS service
- Construct an IMCA DOLS written report that meets statutory requirements
- Challenge decisions
Recruitment and selection within health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Contribute to the recruitment process in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Participate in the selection process in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Evaluate the recruitment and selection processes in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings
Support children’s speech, language and communication.Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of speech, language and communication for children’s overall development.
- Understand the importance and the benefits of adults supporting the speech, language and communication development of the children in own setting.
- Provide support for the speech, language and communication development of the children in own setting.
- Contribute to maintaining a positive environment that supports speech, language and communication.
Support families who have a child with a disabilityReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
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
Support individuals at the end of lifeReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
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
Support individuals to access housing and accommodation servicesReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
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
Support the spiritual wellbeing of individualsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of spirituality for individuals
- Assess the spiritual needs of an individual
- Understand the impact of values and beliefs on own and an individual's spiritual wellbeing
- Support individuals' spiritual wellbeing
Understand children and young person’s developmentReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the pattern of development that would normally be expected for children and young people from birth-19 yrs
- Understand the factors that impact on children and young people’s development
- Understand the benefits of early intervention to support the development of children and young people
- Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development.
- Understand how assessing, monitoring and recording the development of children and young people informs the use of interventions
Understand partnership workingReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand partnershipworking
Understand the impact of Acquired Brain Injury on individualsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
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
Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand partnershipworking
- Establish and maintain working relationships with colleagues
- Establish and maintain working relationships with other professionals
- Work in partnership with others
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Deliver interventions for children and young people and those involved in their care
- Develop monitor and review service delivery plans to meet the needs of individuals requiring health and care services
- Develop, implement and review support plans with customers
- Lead others in improving health and wellbeing
- Lead teams and individuals to improve health and wellbeing
- Monitor the health and well-being of children and young people
- Support children and young people who have experienced trauma
- Undertake own role in a partnership to protect the public's health and wellbeing from specific risks
Where this can lead
Quality Improvement Director
Your journey in quality management can take you to the very top levels of leadership, or allow you to become an unparalleled technical expert. The key is continuous learning, a passion for improvement, and the ability to influence others to achieve excellence. We're excited to see where you take it.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 28 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services (England) (RQF)
34 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children and young people
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
- Develop provision for family support
- Facilitate change in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
and 28 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.