SFJ Awards Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services (England)

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the theoretical background to person-centred interactive training
• Plan person-centred interactive training sessions to enhance whole team performance
• Lead person-centred interactive training sessions in situ
• Provide support to improve the performance of others

What you'll be able to do

• Understand policies, theories and models which underpin appraisal of performance.
• Support others to understand the purpose of appraisal.
• Facilitate preparation for appraisals.
• Support appraise to participate in appraisal meetings.
• Evaluate own practice during the appraisal process.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand assessment processes
• Lead and contribute to assessments
• Manage the outcomes of assessments
• Promote others’ understanding of the role of assessment
• Review and evaluate the effectiveness of assessment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the contribution that families and carers make in caring for individuals.
• Engage with families and carers who are providing care.
• Assess the needs of families and carers.
• Identify a plan to support families and carers.

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

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

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the regulatory requirements, codes of practice and relevant guidance for managing concerns and complaints
• Develop procedures to address concerns and complaints
• Lead the implementation of procedures and practice for addressing concerns and complaints
• Review the procedures and practices for addressing concerns and complaints

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

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legal and organisational requirements for recording information and providing reports.
• Prepare professional records and reports that meet legal requirements, and agreed ways of working.
• Use records and reports to inform judgements and decisions.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand considerations for individuals with dementia at end of life
• Understand how to support individuals with dementia affected by pain and distress at end of life
• Understand how to support carers of individuals with dementia at end of life

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the complexities of models of disability
• Review how models of disability underpin organisational practice
• Develop others’ awareness of models of disability

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

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how groups develop and function in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
• Create a climate that facilitates effective groups in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
• Facilitate a group in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
• Enhance learning through the constructive use of power, authority and influence in group work in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
• Monitor and review the work of a group in health and social c

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 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

• 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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand and use the Mental Capacity Act
• Provide Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)
• Work with the decision maker
• Challenge decisions made by the decision maker
• Work with people who lack capacity
• Work with accommodation and care review referrals
• Work with serious medical treatment referrals
• Work with adult protection referrals
• Construct an IMCA written report that meets statutory requirements

What you'll be able to do

• Know how Mental Health legislation affects IMHA qualifying patients
• Provide Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)
• Respond to requests for IMHA support
• Engage with professionals
• Respond to individuals who have diverse needs
• Work safely

What you'll be able to do

• Implement organisational systems and procedures necessary to support individuals experiencingsignificant life events
• Ensure sufficient and appropriate resources to support individuals experiencing significant life events
• Ensure staff can respond to individuals experiencing significant life events

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how the active support model translates values into person-centred practical action with individuals
• Use practice leadership to promote positive interaction
• Use practice leadership in supporting others to develop and implement person-centred daily plans to promote participation
• Use practice leadership in supporting others to maintain individuals’ quality of life

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

What you'll be able to do

• Apply current legislation and policy in end of life care in order to develop end of life services
• Understand current theory and practice underpinning end of life care
• Lead and manage effective end of life care services
• Establish and maintain key relationships to lead and manage end of life care
• Support staff and others in the delivery of excellence in the end of life care service
• Continuously improve the quality of the end of life care service

What you'll be able to do

• Develop the physical group living environment to promote positive outcomes for individuals
• Lead the planning, implementation and review of daily living activities
• Promote positive outcomes in a group living environment
• Manage a positive group living environment

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current infection prevention and control policies, procedures and practices.
• Lead the implementation of policies and procedures for infection prevention and control.
• Manage the exchange of information about infections.
• Lead the practice of infection prevention and control.
• Manage risk management in infection prevention and control.
• Review the effectiveness of policies, procedures and practices for infection prevention and control.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current policy and practice guidance for dementia care.
• Support others to develop an understanding of current research of the impact of dementia on individuals and their families.
• Lead practice that promotes the well-being of individuals with dementia.
• Lead practice that support staff to establish and maintain relationships with carers of individuals with dementia.
• Support staff to deliver dementia care.
• Develop own practice in leading the delivery of dementia care.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the theory and principles that underpin person centred practice
• Lead a person-centred practice
• Lead the implementation of active participation of individuals

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

What you'll be able to do

• Support others to understand the contribution that families and carers make in caring for individuals in health and social care or the care of children and young people.
• Develop the practice of staff in assessing the needs of families and carers.
• Implement a care planning process to support families and carers.
• Evaluate quality of assessment and care planning to meet the needs of families and carers.

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

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the relationship between person-centred assessment, care planning and positive risk taking for individuals.
• Promote understanding of the legal and policy frameworks which underpin an individual’s right to make decisions and take risks.
• Develop practice which includes the individual and others in positive risk assessment and planning.
• Support others to understand individuals’ ambitions and the support they will need to achieve them.
• Develop systems for positive risk taking.
• Evaluate the practice of positive risk-taking.

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact of change and transitions on the well being of individuals
• Lead and manage provision that supports workers to manage transitions and significant life events

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

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.

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors that influence the management of domiciliary services
• Manage domiciliary services
• Implement systems for working safely in domiciliary services
• Supervise and support practitioners in order to promote individual’s needs and preferences in domiciliary services
• Respond to day to day changes and emergencies in domiciliary services
• Manage human resources required for domiciliary services

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the theory and principles that underpin outcome based practice
• Lead practice that promotes social, emotional, cultural, spiritual and intellectual well being
• Lead practice that promotes individuals’ health
• Lead inclusive provision that gives individuals’ choice and control over the outcomes they want to achieve
• Manage effective working partnerships with carers, families and significant others to achieve positive outcomes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the purpose of induction for health and social care or children and young people’s settings
• Manage the induction process in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
• Support the implementation of induction processes in health, social care and children and young people’s work settings
• Evaluate the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
• Implement improvements to the induction process in health and social care or children and young people’s settings

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of sustainability when using physical resources.
• Identify resource requirements for own area of responsibility.
• Obtain required resources for own area of responsibility.
• Monitor and review the quality and usage of resources in own area of responsibility.

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

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 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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand issues related to access to healthcare services for individuals with learning disabilities
• Understand the healthcare needs that may affect individuals with learning disabilities
• Understand good practice in supporting people with a learning disability to access healthcare services
• Understand how to support others to develop, implement, monitor and review plans for healthcare
• Develop processes to support others to meet the healthcare needs of individuals with a learning disability
• Promote good practice to others in their support of individuals with learning

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to raise awareness of sensory loss
• Raise awareness of sensory loss
• Review action to promote awareness of sensory loss

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how the different and evolving theories about autism reflect the complexity of autistic spectrum conditions
• Understand the implications of the legal and policy framework underpinning the support of individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
• Promote good practice in the support of individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
• Promote to others positive communication strategies for individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
• Implement strategies to support individuals with an autistic spectrum condition to manage their sensory world

What you'll be able to do

• Understand principles of professional development
• Prioritise goals and targets for own professional development
• Prepare a professional development plan
• Improve performance through reflective practice

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.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of self and others when supporting individuals who have experienced harm or abuse.
• Support individuals to disclose harm or abuse.
• Support individuals who have experienced harm or abuse.

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.

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

What you'll be able to do

• Provide Independent Advocacy support to adults in a range of settings
• Treat the individual receiving Advocacy support as an individual
• Assist the individual receiving Advocacy support to explore choices and potential consequences
• Support adults through a range of meetings
• Work safely

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

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

• 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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislation, regulations and policies that underpin the protection of vulnerable adults
• Lead service provision that protects vulnerable adults
• Manage inter-agency, joint or integrated working in order to protect vulnerable adults
• Monitor and evaluate the systems, processes and practice that safeguards vulnerable adults

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.

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 the impact of the last days of life on the individual and others
• Understand how to respond to common symptoms in the last days of life
• Support individuals and others during the last days of life
• Respond to changing needs of an individual during the last days of life
• Work according to national guidelines, local policies and procedures, taking into account preferences and wishes after the death of the individual
• Manage own feelings in relation to an individual’s dying or death

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

• Understand how legislative frameworks support the safeguarding of individuals.
• Support individuals to gain understanding of behaviours and situations that may make them vulnerable to harm or abuse.
• Support individuals to gain understanding about how to stay safe.
• Work in ways that support individuals to stay safe.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the implications of multiple conditions and/or disabilities for the individual
• Support an individual with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Develop others to support the individual with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Review service provision in respect of individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand language development
• Understand factors that affect the language and communication of an individual with sensory loss
• Understand the complexities of specialist communication systems
• Support the individual with communication
• Support others to make use of specialist communication
• Review communication work

What you'll be able to do

• Carry out assessments for the approval of adult placement / shared lives carers.
• Support adult placement / shared lives carers to prepare for providing a home to an individual.
• Carry out the matching process between adult placement / shared lives carers and individuals.
• Monitor and review placements of individuals.

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 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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the contribution that assistive technology can make to the lives of individuals
• Facilitate the use of assistive technology
• Develop others to facilitate the use of assistive technology
• Review the provision of assistive technology

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of advance care planning
• Understand the process of advance care planning
• Understand the person centred approach to advance care planning

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 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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the attributes of effective team performance
• Support team development
• Promote shared purpose within a team
• Promote a ‘no-blame culture’ within a team
• Understand different styles of leadership and management

What you'll be able to do

• Understand common features of support during the last days of life
• Understand the impact of the last days of life on the individual and others
• Support individuals and others during the last days of life
• Understand the actions to be taken following an individual’s death
• Manage own feelings in relation to an individual’s dying or death

What you'll be able to do

• Understand partnershipworking

What you'll be able to do

• Understand theories of management and leadership and their application to health and social care or children and young people settings.
• Understand the relationship between professional management and leadership.
• Understand the skills of professional management and leadership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings.
• Understand the impact of policy drivers on professional management and leadership in health and social care or children and young people’s services.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children and young people
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact of the ageing process on older people.
• Understand attitudes of society to older people
• Understand the importance of using person centred approaches with older people.
• Understand the importance of independence for older people.

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 factors that may impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people.
• Understand how poverty and disadvantage affect children and young people’s development.
• Understand the importance of early intervention for children and young people who are disadvantaged and vulnerable.
• Understand the importance of support and partnership in improving 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 disadvanta

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 the purpose of supervision
• Understand how the principles of supervision can be used to inform performance management
• Understand how to support individuals through professional supervision
• Understand how professional supervision supports performance

What you'll be able to do

• Justify a topic for research within services for health and social care or children and young people
• Understand how the components of research are used
• Conduct a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people
• Analyse research findings

What you'll be able to do

• Address the range of communication requirements in own role
• Improve communication systems and practices that support positive outcomes for individuals
• Improve communication systems to support partnership working
• Use systems for effective information management

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

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