VTCT Skills · RQF Level 5
VTCT Skills 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 learning474 hours
- Units in this qualification49
Awarded by VTCT Skills · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units VTCT Skills 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.
Assessment, implementation and review of assistive technology in social careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how legislation and regulatory procedures impact on the provision of assistive technology.
- Understand how assistive technology can support independent living and individual wellbeing.
- Carry out assessment for assistive technology.
- Support an individual and others to implement assistive technology.
- Work in partnership with an individual and others to review provision of assistive technology.
Communication and information management in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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 · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Lead continuous improvement in practice
Decision making in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective decision-making
- Carry out effective decision making
Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibilityReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Align objectives of own area of responsibility with those of own organisation.
- Implement operational plans in own area of responsibility.
- Monitor and evaluate operational plans in own area of responsibility..
Develop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaintsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Develop, maintain and use records and reportsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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.
Entrepreneurial skills in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Work with others to support an entrepreneurial culture 2.Understand the market of provision for adult care services
Equality, diversity and inclusion in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion to achieve positive outcomes
Facilitate change in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Facilitate coaching and mentoring of practitioners in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Governance of adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and statutory requirements that underpin adult care provision
- Understand internal governance arrangements within own organisation
Health and safety in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Lead the implementation of procedures for health and safety requirements
Independent Mental Health AdvocacyReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Innovation and change in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Lead and manage end of life care servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Lead and manage group living for adultsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Lead and manage group living for childrenReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Lead and manage infection prevention and control within the work settingReal unit · VTCT Skills
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.
Lead positive behavioural supportReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Lead practice in assessing and planning for the needs of families and carersReal unit · VTCT Skills
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.
Lead the management of transitionsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Leadership and management in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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 an inter-professional team in a health and social care or children and young people’s settingReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Manage disciplinary processes in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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.
Manage domiciliary servicesReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Manage induction in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Manage physical resourcesReal unit · VTCT Skills
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.
Manage self for leadership in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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 · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of concerns and complaints 2.Be able to lead practice to address concerns and complaints
Outcomes-based person-centred practice in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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 · VTCT Skills
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 4.Be able to work in partnership with professionals in other agencies
Principles of supporting individuals with a learning disability regarding sexuality and sexual healthReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Professional development in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of professional development in adult care
Promote awareness of sensory lossReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Promote good practice in the support of individuals with autistic spectrum conditionsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Providing Independent Advocacy ManagementReal unit · VTCT Skills
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 and selection within health and social care or children and young people’s settingsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Regulatory processes for adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Resource management in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
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 · VTCT Skills
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 · VTCT Skills
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 3.Be able to support safeguarding of children and young people encountered in an adult care service 4.Understand the use and impact of restrictive practices
Supervision and performance management in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and practice of professional supervision in adult care settings
- Provide professional supervision
- Understand procedures to address performance management and related issues
Support individuals with a learning disability to access healthcareReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation, policies and guidance relevant to individuals with learning disabilities accessing healthcare,
- Understand the function of different healthcare services that an individual with learning disabilities may need to access,
- Understand the role of professionals within different healthcare services that a person with learning disabilities may need to access,
- Understand how plans for healthcare and regular health checks underpin long-term health and well-being for individuals with learning disabilities,
- Complete and review plans for healthcare,
- Understand the issues t
Support remote or virtual teamsReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the support needed by remote or virtual teams
- Support remote or virtual teams
Support the spiritual wellbeing of individualsReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Team Leadership in adult careReal unit · VTCT Skills
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for a team
- Manage team work
Undertake a research project within services for health and social care or children and young peopleReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
Work with other professionals and agencies to support individuals with physical disabilityReal unit · VTCT Skills
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
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.
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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.
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- Lead and manage change in commissioning activities
- Lead risk management in commissioning, procurement and contracting
- Manage the transition of IT services
- Obtain approval for selected research and development activities
- Respond to and resolve complaints in a funeral business
Where this can lead
Regulatory Affairs Associate
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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 VTCT Skills Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF)
49 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by VTCT Skills.
- Assessment, implementation and review of assistive technology in social care
- Communication and information management in adult care
- Continuous improvement in adult care
- Decision making in adult care
- Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibility
- Develop procedures and practice to respond to concerns and complaints
and 43 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.
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.