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- The centre assesses, and NCFE awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCFE.
Health, Public Services and Care, Children and Young People
These are the units NCFE 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with NCFE. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCFE sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Lead and manage a team within a residential childcare setting Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concepts of management and leadership.
- Understand the features of effective team performance within residential childcare.
- Lead the development of a positive organisational culture.
- Develop a plan with team members to meet agreed objectives.
- Support individual team members to work towards agreed objectives.
- Manage performance.
- Understand how to lead a team through change.
Lead and manage group living in residential childcare Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current theoretical frameworks for group living for children and young people.
- Understand the current legal, policy and rights frameworks for children and young people in group living.
- Support positive outcomes in a group living environment.
- Lead the planning, implementation and review of group living activities for children and young people.
- Manage work schedules and patterns to maintain a positive group living environment for group living.
Lead practice for communication and information management in residential childcare settings Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the theoretical context of communication in residential childcare settings.
- Develop team members’ knowledge and skills to support communication with children and young people.
- Support team members in addressing specific communication needs of children and young people.
- Develop practices that support children and young people to communicate openly in the work setting.
- Understand approaches to conflict management.
- Develop communication to support professional networks and teams.
- Manage systems for effective information management.
Lead practice to support the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in residential childcare Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of current legislation for the safeguarding of children and young people.
- Participate in local networks to safeguard children and young people
- Lead practice that minimises the risk of potential, actual and alleged harm by team members.
- Lead practice that minimises the risk of harm and abuse in the care setting.
- Implement policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
- Understand situations that present high risk of harm for children and young people.
- Understand approaches that address child sexual exploitation.
- Review policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people in residential childcare.
Manage risk in residential childcare Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal, ethical and theoretical context for health, safety and risk management in residential childcare settings.
- Establish a culture where risks and benefits are balanced to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
- Lead implementation of risk management procedures.
- Review health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices.
Understand children and young people’s development in residential childcare Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the pattern of development that would usually be expected for children and young people from birth to19 years.
- Understand the factors that impact on children and young people’s development.
- Understand how to support children and young people’s development during transitions.
- Understand how assessing, monitoring and recording the development of children and young people informs the use of interventions.
- Understand the use of interventions to support the development of children and young people.
Understand support for children and young people who are vulnerable and disadvantaged Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that impact on outcomes and life chances of children and young people.
- Understand how poverty and disadvantage can affect children and young people’s development.
- Understand the strategic and policy context for improving outcomes for children and young people.
- Understand partnership working to improve outcomes for children and young people who are experiencing poverty and disadvantage.
- Understand the role of the practitioner in supporting children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Lead risk management in commissioning, procurement and contracting
The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCFE rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Lead and manage a team within a residential childcare settingLead and manage group living in residential childcareLead practice for communication and information management in residential childcare settingsLead practice to support the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in residential childcareManage risk in residential childcareUnderstand children and young people’s development in residential childcareUnderstand support for children and young people who are vulnerable and disadvantaged
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Lead practice to support the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in residential childcare” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Lead it Apply
“Lead and manage a team within a residential childcare setting” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Lead and manage a team within a residential childcare setting, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit enables learners to lead and manage teams within residential childcare settings. Learners will understand leadership and management theories, foster positive organisational culture, develop plans with team members, and support individual and team development.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England)
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Lead and manage a team within a residential childcare setting
- Lead and manage group living in residential childcare
- Lead practice for communication and information management in residential childcare settings
- Lead practice to support the safeguarding and protection of children and young people in residential childcare
- Manage risk in residential childcare
- Understand children and young people’s development in residential childcare
and 1 more in the full unit list below.
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