NCFE · RQF Level 5
NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care
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 learning720 hours
- Units in this qualification33
Awarded by NCFE · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advocacy in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of advocacy in relation to adult care.
- Understand how advocacy is used within legal frameworks.
- Understand partnership working in advocacy.
Assistive technology in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of assistive technology.
- Lead and manage practice in relation to the use of assistive technology.
Business development for adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand systems and processes in relation to business planning.
- Understand how to develop a positive culture that supports change and growth.
- Undertake business planning and development.
Clinical skills in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities relating to clinical skills in adult care.
- Understand the healthcare needs of individuals using adult care services.
- Assess, monitor and review the healthcare needs of individuals.
- Undertake clinical activities to support the healthcare needs of individuals.
- Lead practice in the development of clinical skills.
Coaching and mentoring in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of coaching and mentoring in adult social care.
- Lead and manage coaching or mentoring support in adult care services.
Communication and information management in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand models of communication.
- Develop communication systems and practices that support positive outcomes.
- Implement systems for effective information management.
Continuous improvement in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Lead continuous improvement in practice.
Decision making in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective decision-making.
- Carry out effective decision-making.
Entrepreneurial skills in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the market provision for adult care services.
- Work with others to support an entrepreneurial culture.
Equality, diversity and inclusion in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and policy in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion to achieve positive outcomes.
Governance of adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and statutory requirements that underpin adult care provision.
- Understand modes of service delivery within adult care.
- Understand internal governance arrangements within own organisation.
Group living in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theoretical approaches, legislation and regulatory requirements in relation to group living in adult care.
- Understand how to promote positive outcomes in a group living environment.
- Lead practice to support group living.
Health and safety in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative framework for health and safety in adult care settings.
- Understand own role, responsibilities and accountability in relation to infection prevention and control in adult care.
- Lead the implementation of procedures for health and safety requirements.
Induction in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the induction of staff in adult care services.
- Develop induction in adult care services.
Innovation and change in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop a vision for the future of the service.
- Understand principles of effective change management.
Leadership and management in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of theories of leadership and management.
- Understand leadership and management in adult care settings.
- Lead commitment to a vision for the service.
Manage self in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of self-awareness.
- Manage own behaviour.
- Manage own workload.
- Undertake own professional development.
Managing concerns and complaints in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of concerns and complaints.
- Lead practice to address concerns and complaints.
Mental capacity in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act in relation to adult care.
- Understand how to work with decision makers.
- Understand how to work with individuals who lack capacity.
Outcomes based person-centred practice in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand outcomes based and person-centred practice.
- Lead practice to facilitate positive outcomes for individuals through person-centred practice.
- Lead practice to achieve healthcare outcomes.
Partnership working in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of relationships and partnership working.
- Lead effective relationships with individuals, carers and families.
- Manage working relationships with colleagues in the organisation to achieve positive outcomes for individuals.
- Work in partnership with professionals in other agencies.
Professional development in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of professional development in adult care.
Recruitment, selection and retention in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation, regulation and organisation requirements for recruitment, selection and retention.
- Understand the recruitment and selection process.
- Understand how to support retention in adult care.
- Manage recruitment and selection processes in own setting.
Regulatory processes for adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand systems and requirements for the regulation of adult care services.
- Understand key roles, remits and responsibilities in registered services.
- Understand the inspection process.
- Understand the wider range of regulatory requirements that apply to the service.
Research in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand research approaches and methodologies.
- Plan a research project within adult care.
- Conduct a research project within adult care.
- Analyse research findings.
Resource management in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles for effective resource management.
- Understand principles of human resource management.
Risk taking and risk management in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand positive risk-taking.
- Understand issues around mental capacity and consent.
- Lead the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to manage risk.
Safeguarding and protection in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for the safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Understand how public inquiries and serious case reviews inform practice.
- Lead the implementation of policies and procedures to support safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Understand the use and impact of restrictive practices.
- Understand local systems for safeguarding children and young people.
- Support safeguarding of children and young people encountered in an adult social care service.
Sexuality and sexual health in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand sexuality and sexual health across the life span.
- Understand the support of sexuality and sexual health for individuals.
Specialist areas of careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of conditions on the well-being of individuals within own service.
- Understand the impact of conditions on the care of individuals.
- Understand how current research, policy and guidance informs practice in own specialist area of care.
- Understand how to access services in order to meet the needs of individuals in own service.
- Understand how to represent the rights and interests of individuals within own specialist area of care.
- Develop outcomes based and person-centred practice within own specialist area of care.
Supervision and performance management in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and practice of professional supervision in adult care settings.
- Understand procedures to address performance management and related issues.
- Provide professional supervision.
Team leadership in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Lead own team.
- Manage team work.
Transitions in adult careReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand transitions in adult care.
- Understand the support required for individuals during transitions.
- Lead and manage practice to support individuals through transitions.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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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 NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care
33 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Advocacy in adult care
- Assistive technology in adult care
- Business development for adult care
- Clinical skills in adult care
- Coaching and mentoring in adult care
- Communication and information management in adult care
and 27 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
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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.
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