Training Qualifications UK Ltd · RQF Level 5
TQUK Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits80
- Guided learning562 hours
- Units in this qualification21
Awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Training Qualifications UK Ltd 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.
Communication and information management in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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.
Decision making in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective decision making.
- Carry out effective decision making.
End of life and dementia careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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 symptoms at end of life.
- Understand how to support carers of individuals with dementia at end of life.
Entrepreneurial skills in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the market of provision for adult care services.
- Work with others to support an entrepreneurial culture
Equality, diversity and inclusion in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal context underpinning equality, diversity and inclusion and the effects of discrimination and inclusion.
- Understand the impact of legislation and policy initiatives on the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in adult care.
- Evaluate and improve policies, systems, processes and practices that promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Support others to challenge discrimination and exclusion in ways that are likely to achieve change and promote positive outcomes.
Governance and regulatory processes in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation and statutory requirements that underpin adult care provision.
- Understand internal governance arrangements within own organisation.
- 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
Independent Mental Capacity AdvocacyReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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
Independent Mental Health AdvocacyReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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
Lead and manage a team within adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for a team.
- Manage work for a team.
- Support individual team member's to work towards agreed objectives in a adult care setting.
Manage continuous improvement in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Lead practice that promoted continuous improvement in practice.
Managing concerns and complaints in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of concerns and complaints.
- Lead practice to address concerns and complaints.
Outcomes based person centred practice in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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.
Principles of Leadership and management in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of management and leadership and their application to in adult care.
- Lead commitment to a vision for the service.
- Understand the skills of professional management and leadership in an adult care setting.
Providing Independent Advocacy ManagementReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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
Recruitment, selection and induction practiceReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and theories underpinning recruitment, selection and induction practice.
- Recruit people into an organisation.
- Select appropriate people for the role.
- Induct people into an organisation.
Risk-taking and risk management in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative framework for health and safety in adult care settings.
- Lead the implementation of procedures for health and safety requirements.
- Lead the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to manage risk.
- Understand positive risk taking.
- Understand issues around mental capacity and consent
Safeguarding and protection in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Lead the implementation of policies and procedures to support safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Support safeguarding of children and young people encountered in an adult care service.
- Understand the use and impact restrictive practices
Supervision and performance management in adult careReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of professional development in adult care.
- Understand the purpose of professional supervision in adult care settings.
- Understand procedures to address performance management and related issues.
- Provide professional supervision
Support families who are affected by Acquired Brain InjuryReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact on families who care for an individual with Acquired Brain Injury.
- Understand legislation that is relevant to carers of an individual affected by Acquired Brain Injury.
- Assess the support required by families who hold the primary caring role.
- Work in partnership with other professionals and agencies.
Support families who have a child with a disabilityReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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
Understand how to support individuals during the last days of lifeReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
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 individualsand others during the last days of life
- Understand the actions to be taken following an individual’s death
- . Know how to manage own feelings in relation to an individual’s dying or death
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.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Establish and maintain an organisational culture of risk awareness (Commissioning, Procurement and Contracting)
- Lead risk management in commissioning, procurement and contracting
- Manage and develop yourself and your workforce within care services
Where this can lead
Director of Governance & Audit Committee Secretary
The path from Director of Governance & Audit Committee Secretary is rich with opportunity. Whether you aspire to the very top of the governance profession within a company, or wish to apply your expertise more broadly as an independent advisor or board member, this role provides an unparalleled foundation for a truly impactful and respected career.
See the whole journey →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 TQUK Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF)
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd.
- Communication and information management in adult care
- Decision making in adult care
- End of life and dementia care
- Entrepreneurial skills in adult care
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in adult care
- Governance and regulatory processes in adult care
and 15 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.