FAQ Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to administer oral nutritional products to individuals in line with current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice guidelines
• Understand common nutritional products and their uses
• Understand how to manage possible reactions to the use of nutritional products
• Prepare for oral administration of nutritional products
• Administer oral nutritional products to individuals

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation, policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication
• Know about common types of medication and their use
• Understand procedures and techniques for the administration of medication
• Prepare for the administration of medication
• Administer and monitor medication

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice which inform own role in assisting in treatment programmes for individuals with severely reduced movement/mobility
• Understand anatomical and physiological issues related to providing treatment programmes for individuals with severely reduced movement/mobility
• Understand treatment programmes for individuals with severely reduced movement/mobility
• Implement treatment programmes for individuals with severely reduced movement/mobility

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to the implementation of programmes to restore mobility, movement and functional independence
• Understand health topics related to restoring movement and functional independence
• Understand treatment programmes related to restoring movement and functional independence
• Assist in implementing programmes to restore mobility, movement and functional independence
• Make records and provide information to the practitioner

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current organisational policies and procedures relating to the use of oxygen
• Understand respiratory conditions that may require the use of oxygen
• Understand the adverse effects of oxygen and how they can be minimised or prevented
• Understand resources and equipment used when administering care in response to respiratory conditions
• Monitor and record saturation levels
• Assist in the preparation and administration of oxygen for individuals

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Understand the key elements of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Understand ‘restraint’ as defined in the s6(4) Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Understand the importance of complying with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice when working with individuals who lack capacity

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the ageing process
• Adapt communication techniques when caring for elderly patients
• Understand how to care for elderly patients

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the range of difference substances and their effects
• Evaluate individuals’ substance misuse and understanding of substance misuse services
• Assess individuals’ needs and appropriate interventions
• Make referrals to substance misuse services

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the causes of infection
• Understand the transmission of infection

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to maintain a clean environment
• Understand the principles and steps of the decontamination process
• Understand the importance of good waste management practice

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors affecting activities which raise awareness about health issues
• Recognise the need for raising awareness of health issues
• Assist in planning activities to raise awareness of health issues
• Contribute to implementing activities for raising awareness of health issues
• Review the effectiveness of activities to raise awareness of health issues

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of own role and how it contributes to the team performance
• Reflect on own performance
• Manage time and commitments effectively
• Establish effective working relationships with all members of the team

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to deliver training through demonstration and instruction
• Deliver training by demonstration and instruction
• Review learning and training

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the context of working in partnership
• Develop effective working relationships with staff in other agencies
• Sustain effective working relationships

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how duty of care contributes to safe practice
• Address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and the duty of care
• Respond to complaints

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the factors that may impact on an individual being able to negotiate their environment
• Prepare to support an individual to negotiate an environment
• Support the individual to negotiate an environment
• Evaluate and revise the support provided to an individual to negotiate an environment

What you'll be able to do

• Understand key legislation and agreed ways of working that support the fulfilment of rights and choices of individuals with dementia while minimising risk of harm
• Maximise the rights and choices of individuals with dementia
• Involve carers and others in supporting individuals with dementia
• Understand how to maintain the privacy, dignity and respect of individuals with dementia whilst promoting rights and choices

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation, policies and practice in relation to supporting individuals to manage their behaviour
• Understand the factors that influence behaviour
• Work with individuals to recognise the impact of their behaviour on others
• Support individuals to develop strategies for managing behavioural responses
• Evaluate and review strategies for managing behavioural responses

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legal, service and social context of work with individuals in relation to their behaviour
• Gather and use relevant information to explore behavioural responses
• Work with an individual to plan a strategy for changing patterns of behaviour that have a negative impact
• Work with an individual and significant others to review a strategy for changing patterns of behaviour that have a negative impact

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand that each individual’s experience of dementia is unique
• Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion in dementia care andsupport
• Work in a person-centred manner to ensure inclusivity of an individual withdementia
• Work with others to encourage support for diversity and equality

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of person-centred assessment and care planning
• Facilitate person-centred assessment
• Contribute to the planning of care or support
• Support the implementation of care plans
• Monitor a care plan
• Facilitate a review of care plans and their implementation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of learning and development activities in meeting individual needs
• Identify learning and development activities to meet individual needs and preferences
• Plan learning and development activities with individuals
• Prepare for learning and development activities
• Facilitate learning and development activities with individuals
• Evaluate and review learning and development activities

What you'll be able to do

• Identify agreed ways to gain entry to and leave individuals' homes
• Gain entry to individuals’ homes
• Take appropriate action when unable to gain entry to individuals' homes
• Deal with emergencies encountered after gaining entry
• Ensure security when leaving individuals’ homes
• Review procedures for entering and leaving individuals' homes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to 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 how to assess the physical health needs of individuals with mental health needs
• Carry out assessments of the physical health needs of individuals with mental health needs
• Record the outcome of assessments
• Plan actions needed following physical health assessments
• Identify resources and services needed by individuals following physical health assessments
• Make referrals

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 Analyse key factors that lead to a behaviour being defined as challenging
• 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 pre

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of therapeutic group activities
• Plan and prepare for therapeutic group activities
• Support individuals during therapeutic group activities
• Contribute to the evaluation of therapeutic group activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legal and local requirements relating to the use of telecommunications when supporting individuals
• Use telecommunication technology
• Engage with individuals using telecommunications
• Identify and evaluate any risks or dangers for individuals during the interaction
• Terminate the interaction

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the meaning of personalisation in social care
• Understand systems that support personalisation
• Understand how personalisation affects the way support is provided
• Understand how to implement personalisation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the effects of symptoms in relation to end of life care
• Understand how to manage symptoms in end of life care
• Manage symptoms in end of life care
• Integrate symptom management in the care management process

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols in relation to moving and positioning individuals
• Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to moving and positioning individuals
• Minimise risk before moving and positioning individuals
• Move and position an individual
• Know when to seek advice and/or assistance from others when moving and positioning an individual

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols in relation to obtaining venous blood samples
• Understand the anatomy and physiology relating to obtaining venous blood samples
• Prepare to obtain venous blood samples
• Obtain venous blood samples
• Prepare venous blood samples for transportation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to prepare and manage environments and resources for use during healthcare activities
• Prepare environments, medical equipment, devices and resources for use during healthcare activities
• Ensure that environments and resources are ready for their next intended use

What you'll be able to do

• Understand legislation and agreed ways of working when using extended feeding techniques
• Understand anatomy and physiology in relation to extended feeding
• Understand extended feeding techniques
• Manage risks relating to extended feeding
• Prepare for extended feeding
• Carry out and complete extended feeding techniques
• Maintain records and report on extended feeding

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how shared lives arrangements can benefit individuals
• Carry out an analysis of own development needs before supporting an individual in a shared lives arrangement
• Access and share information relevant to the provision of a shared livesarrangement for individuals
• Address the potential impact on key people of providing a shared livesarrangement

What you'll be able to do

• Understand self-directed support
• Understand how to support an individual to direct their own support and develop their support plan
• Understand the different ways that people can use their personal budget
• Understand the outcome focused review process

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the steps and stages of moving from childhood into adulthood
• Understand how having a disability may affect the process of moving from childhood into adulthood
• Understand the options for supporting a young person who has a disability to make the transition into adulthood
• Understand how to support a young person with a disability through a successful transition
• Understand the importance of supporting a young person and their family to reflect on the transition

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene
• Understand how to encourage an individual to maintain personal hygiene
• Understand how to support an individual to maintain personal hygiene
• Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other underlying personal issues

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how active support translates values into person-centred practical action with an individual
• Interact positively with individuals to promote participation
• Develop and implement person-centred daily plans to promote participation
• Use person-centred records to evaluate an individual’s participation in activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of effective two-way communication
• Understand different methods that can support communication with individuals with sensory loss
• Support the individual with communication
• Evaluate the effectiveness of methods of communication used to support an individual with sensory loss

What you'll be able to do

• Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting
• Meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of individuals
• Overcome barriers to communication
• Apply principles and practices relating to confidentiality

What you'll be able to do

• Understand requirements for handling information in care settings
• Implement good practice in handling information
• Support others to handle information

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion
• Work in an inclusive way
• Promote diversity, equality and inclusion

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety
• Carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
• Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness
• Reduce the spread of infection
• Move and handle equipment and other objects safely
• Handle hazardous substances and materials
• Promote fire safety in the work setting
• Implement security measures in the work setting
• Manage stress

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to promote the application of person-centred approaches in care settings
• Work in a person-centred way
• Establish consent when providing care or support
• Implement and promote active participation
• Support the individual’s right to make choices
• Promote individuals’ well-being
• Understand the role of risk-assessment in enabling a person-centred approach

What you'll be able to do

• Understand what is required for competence in own work role
• Reflect on practice
• Evaluate own performance
• Agree a personal development plan
• Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how legislation, frameworks, codes of practice and policies relate to positive behaviour support
• Promote positive behaviour
• Understand the context and use of proactive and reactive strategies
• Understand the use of restrictive interventions
• Respond appropriately to incidents of challenging behaviour
• Support individuals and others following an incident of challenging behaviour
• Review and revise approaches to promoting positive behaviour

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how active support translates values into person-centred practical action with an individual
• Interact positively with individuals to promote participation
• Implement person-centred daily plans to promote participation
• Maintain person-centred records of participation

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to supporting individuals with communication and interaction difficulties
• Understand roles and responsibilities of those supporting individuals with communication and interaction difficulties
• Understand normal and impaired communication
• Understand methods of interacting with individuals with communication difficulties
• Support individuals with communication and interaction difficulties to carry out learning tasks and activities
• Support individuals with communica

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of supporting individuals to continue recommended therapies
• Encourage individuals to continue recommended therapies
• Support individuals to continue recommended therapy
• Monitor, record and report on observations during recommended therapy
• Contribute to evaluation and review of recommended therapies

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the context of supporting skills for everyday life
• Support individuals to plan for maintaining and developing skills for everyday life
• Support individuals to retain, regain or develop skills for everyday life
• Evaluate support for developing or maintaining skills for everyday life

What you'll be able to do

• Understand approaches to managing pain and discomfort
• Assist in minimising individuals’ pain or discomfort
• Monitor, record and report on the management of individuals’ pain or discomfort

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Independent Advocacy
• Understand the principles and values underpinning Independent Advocacy
• Understand the development of Advocacy
• Understand the different types of Advocacy support and their purpose
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of an Independent Advocate
• Understand Advocacy standards

What you'll be able to do

• Know the regulations and legislation that applies to the misuse use of substances in line with organisational procedures
• Understand the indications of substance misuse
• Assess and monitor risk in accordance with organisational procedures
• Understand how to handle information and maintain records in line with organisational procedures
• Refer individuals to appropriate services in line with organisational requirements

What you'll be able to do

• Understand working relationships in care settings
• Work in ways that are agreed with the employer
• Work in partnership with others

What you'll be able to do

• Understand principles of safeguarding adults
• Recognise signs of abuse
• Respond to suspected or alleged abuse
• Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse
• Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse
• Recognise and report unsafe practices
• Understand principles for online safety

What you'll be able to do

• Evaluate own work and that of others to identify improvements
• Understand how to make constructive suggestions about how services can be improved
• Understand how to discuss and agree improvements with others
• Understand how to make agreed improvements to own work and how to support others to make changes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the range, purpose and effectiveness of assistive technology available to support individuals
• Support the selection of assistive technology with individuals
• Support the use of assistive technology aids with an individual
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the use of assistive technology to meet identified outcomes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors affecting the capacity of individuals to develop and/or maintain relationships
• Support individuals to identify beneficial relationships
• Support individuals to develop new relationships
• Support individuals to maintain existing relationships
• Work with individuals to review the support provided for relationships

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how assessments should be undertaken
• Introduce individuals to detoxification programmes
• Develop and review detoxification treatment and care plans
• Manage closure of individuals’ detoxification programmes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand about different substances, their effects and how they might be used
• Enable individuals to adopt safe practices associated with substance use
• Support individuals when they have used substances
• Support individuals in reducing substance use

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact of multiple conditions and/or disabilities on individuals
• Understand own role in supporting individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Understand the support available for individuals with multiple conditions and/ordisabilities
• Assist individuals with multiple conditions and/or disabilities
• Evaluate the support provided to an individual to engage in activities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand self-directed support
• Understand how to support individuals to direct their own support and develop theirsupport plan
• Understand the different ways that individuals can use their personal budget
• Support individuals to direct their support
• Support individuals to use their personal budget in different ways
• Support individuals with an outcome-focused review

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and practice of person-centred thinking, planning and reviews
• Understand the context within which person-centred thinking and planning takes place
• Understand own role in person-centred planning
• Apply person-centred planning in relation to own life
• Implement person-centred thinking, planning and reviews

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the steps and stages of moving from childhood into adulthood
• Understand how having a disability may affect the process of moving from childhood into adulthood
• Understand the options for supporting a young person who has a disability to make the transition into adulthood
• Support a young person with a disability through transition into adulthood
• Support a young person to reflect on the transition

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the aims and principles of end of life care
• 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 the role of organisations and support services available to individuals and key people in relation to end of life care
• Support individuals through the process of dying
• Take action following the death of individuals
• Manage own feelings in relation to the dying or death of individuals

What you'll be able to do

• Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and procedures related to supporting individuals during emergency situations
• Understand how being involved in an emergency situation can impact on individuals’ health and well being, and how the negative effects can be reduced
• Prepare to provide support to individuals during emergency situations
• Provide support to individuals during emergency situations

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene
• Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene
• Understand when poor hygiene may be an indicator of other underlying personal issues

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of direct payments
• Support individuals to decide whether to use direct payments
• Provide support to select services to be purchased with direct payments
• Provide support for completing paperwork associated with direct payments
• Understand how to address difficulties, dilemmas and conflicts relating to direct payments
• Contribute to reviewing the support provided through direct payments
• Contribute to reviewing the management of direct payments

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors that influence individuals’ access to services and facilities
• Support individuals to select services and facilities
• Support individuals to access and use services and facilities
• Support individuals to review their access to and use of services and facilities

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of supporting individuals to live at home
• Contribute to planning support for living at home
• Work with individuals to secure additional services and facilities to enable them to live at home
• Work in partnership to introduce additional services for individuals living at home
• Contribute to reviewing support for living at home

What you'll be able to do

• Access information and advice about financial affairs
• Provide support for individuals to manage their finances
• Contribute to applying for financial assistance
• Contribute to reviewing support for managing finances

What you'll be able to do

• Understand factors affecting a move to a new home environment
• Support individuals to prepare to move into new home environments
• Support individuals to settle into new home environments
• Support individuals to review the impact of new home environments

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the effects of bereavement on individuals
• Understand principles for supporting individuals who are bereaved
• Support individuals to express their response to loss
• Support individuals who are bereaved
• Understand the role of specialist agencies in supporting individuals who are bereaved
• Manage own feelings when providing support for individuals who are bereaved

What you'll be able to do

• Understand an individual’s specific communication needs
• Understand how to support the use of communication technology and aids
• Contribute to identifying and addressing specific communication needs of individuals
• Interact with individuals using their preferred communication method
• Promote communication between individuals and others
• Review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of risk-taking in everyday life
• Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk-assessment
• Understand the framework which underpins an individual’s right to make decisions and take risks
• Support individuals to make decisions about risks
• Support individuals to take risks
• Understand duty of care in relation to supporting positive risk-taking

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 promoting awareness of sensory loss
• Understand the role played by self and others in promoting awareness of sensory loss
• Provide information that promotes awareness of sensory loss
• Use information to promote awareness of sensory loss

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of spiritual wellbeing for individuals
• Identify the spiritual needs of an individual and others
• 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

• Know the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings
• Know about common types of medication and their use
• Understand roles and responsibilities in the use of medication in social care settings
• Understand techniques for administering medication
• Receive, store and dispose of medication supplies safely
• Understand how to promote the rights of the individual when managing medication
• Support use of medication
• Record and report on use of medication

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the impact of loss and grief on individuals approaching end of life and others
• Support individuals and others through the experience of loss and grief
• Manage own feelings in relation to loss and grief

What you'll be able to do

• Understand own and others roles and responsibilities in the prevention and control of infections
• Understand legislation and policies relating to prevention and control of infections
• Understand systems and procedures relating to the prevention and control of infections
• Understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to the prevention and control of infections
• Understand the importance of using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the prevention and control of infections
• Understand the importance of good personal hygiene in the prevention and control of infections

What you'll be able to do

• Understand frailty and the impact of this on individuals
• Understand long term conditions
• Support individuals with frailty or long term conditions

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the difference between models of disability
• Understand how the adoption of models of disability can shape an individual’s identity and experience
• Understand how the adoption of models of disability can shape service delivery

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 legal and policy framework underpinning an individual with disabilities right to make decisions and take risks
• Understand that individuals with disabilities have the same right as everyone else to take risks
• Understand the importance of considering the risks associated with the choices an individual with disabilities makes
• Understand the importance of a positive, person-centred approach to risk assessment
• Understand the importance of a partnership approach to risk taking

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the factors that can affect interactions and communication of individuals with dementia
• Communicate with an individual with dementia using a range of verbal and non-verbal techniques
• Understand how to communicate positively with an individual who has dementia by valuing their individuality
• Use positive interaction approaches with individuals with dementia

What you'll be able to do

• Communicate with individuals with dementia
• Apply interaction and communication approaches with individuals who have dementia

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nutritional needs that are unique to individuals who have dementia
• Understand the effect that mealtime environments can have on an individual who has dementia
• Support an individual who has dementia to enjoy good nutrition

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legal and policy framework that underpins good practice in the support of individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
• Understand the main characteristics of autistic spectrum conditions
• Understand how autistic spectrum conditions can impact on the lives of individuals and those around them
• Understand different theories and concepts about autism
• Understand how to achieve effective communication with individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
• Understand how to support individuals with an autistic spectrum condition

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the types of mental ill health
• Understand the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social network

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the different views on the nature of mental well-being and mental health and the factors that may influence both across the life span
• Implement an effective strategy for promoting mental well-being and mental health with individuals and groups

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the common medications available to, and appropriate for, individuals with dementia
• Understand how to provide person-centred care to individuals with dementia through the appropriate and effective use of medication

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the concept of diversity and its relevance to working with individuals who have dementia
• Understand that each individual’s experience of dementia is unique
• Understand the importance of working in a person-centred way and how this links to inclusion

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 that individuals with dementia may communicate in different ways
• Understand the importance of positive interactions with individuals who have dementia
• Understand the factors which can affect interactions and communication of individuals who have dementia

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of individuals with learning disabilities
• Understand the nature and characteristics of learning disability
• Understand the historical context of learning disability
• Understand the basic principles and practice of advocacy, empowerment and active participation in relation to supporting individuals with learning disabilities and their families
• Understand how views and attitudes impact on the lives of individuals with learning disabilities and their family carers
• Promote communication with

What you'll be able to do

• Know the legal and current policy framework for mental health
• Know the service framework for mental health
• Understand the rights and responsibilities of individuals using services and of others

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 anatomy and physiology of the skin in relation to pressure area care;
• Understand good practice in relation to own role when undertaking pressure area care;
• Follow the agreed care plan;
• Understand the use of materials, equipment and resources that are available when undertaking pressure area care;
• Prepare to undertake pressure area care;
• Undertake pressure area care.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice for undertaking physiological measurements
• Understand the physiological states that can be measured
• Prepare to take physiological measurements
• Undertake physiological measurements
• Record and report results of physiological measurements

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the need for tissue viability risk assessment
• Undertake tissue viability risk assessment
• Record and report on tissue viability risk assessment
• Understand when the risk assessment should be reviewed

What you'll be able to do

• Understand partnership working with families and family members in care and/or support
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with families and family members in care and/or support
• Plan shared approaches to the care and support of individuals with families and family members in care and/or support
• Work with families to access support in their role as carers
• Exchange and record information about partnership work with families
• Contribute to reviewing partnership work with families
• Provide feedback about supp

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

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the contribution that other professionals and agencies can make to support individuals with physical disabilities
• Assess the needs of individuals with physical disabilities for inclusive social care provision
• Demonstrate partnership working