NCFE · RQF Level 5
NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma for Assistant Practitioners in Healthcare
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning900 hours
- Units in this qualification20
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.
Clinical skills in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities relating to clinical skills
- Understand the healthcare needs of individuals
- Assess, monitor and review the healthcare needs of individuals
- Undertake clinical activities to support healthcare needs of individuals
- Lead practice in the development of clinical skills
Communication and information management in healthcareReal 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 healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand regulation and inspection in health care
- Understand factors that impact the quality of provision
- Lead continuous improvement in practice
Equality, diversity and inclusion in healthcareReal 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
Health and safety in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative framework for health and safety in healthcare settings
- Lead the implementation of procedures for health and safety requirements
Human anatomy and physiologyReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisation of the human body
- Understand the structure and functions of the organ systems of the human body
- Understand homeostasis in the human body
- Understand genetic inheritance
Human development and healthcare needs through the lifespanReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- 1: Understand development from conception to birth
- 2: Understand human growth and development across the lifespan
- 3: Understand health inequalities
- 4: Understand how health and social care services meet the needs of individuals through the lifespan
- 5: Understand current issues in public health
Manage infection prevention and controlReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand transmission of infection
- Understand medication in the control of infectious disease
- Understand own role, responsibilities and accountabilities in relation to infection prevention and control
- Lead the implementation of procedures for infection prevention and control
- Develop policies, procedures and practice in relation to infection prevention and control
Manage self in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- 1: Understand the importance of self-awareness
- 2: Manage own behaviour
- 3: Manage own workload
- 4: Undertake own professional development
Monitor health and well-being through physiological measurementsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and guidance in relation to physiological measurements
- Understand the range of physiological measurements
- Understand how physiological changes are monitored
- Undertake physiological measurements
- Analyse the results of physiological measurements
Outcomes based person-centred practice in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand outcomes-based and person-centred practice
- Contribute to the care planning process
Partnership working in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- 1: Understand the context of relationships and partnership working
- 2: Lead effective relationships with individuals, carers and families
- 3: Manage working relationships with colleagues in the organisation to achieve positive outcomes for individuals
- 4: Work in partnership with professionals in other agencies
Principles and philosophy for healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- 1: Understand the purpose of healthcare provision
- 2: Understand the impact of drivers on healthcare provision
- 3: Understand the role of technology in healthcare
- 4: Understand models of health and well-being
- 5: Understand ethical principles in healthcare
Professional development in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles of professional development in healthcare
Provision and support for nutrition and hydrationReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- 1: Understand the legal and policy framework in relation to nutrition and hydration
- 2: Understand individual needs in relation to nutrition and hydration
- 3: Understand how to assess, support and monitor nutrition and hydration health and needs
- 4: Assess the nutritional and hydration needs of individuals
- 5: Support the nutritional and hydration needs of individuals
Research in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand research approaches and methodologies
- Plan a research project within healthcare
- Conduct a research project within healthcare
- Analyse research findings
Risk taking and risk management in healthcareReal 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 healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for the safeguarding of vulnerable individuals
- Understand how public inquiries and serious case reviews inform practice
- Lead the implementation of policies and procedures to support safeguarding of individuals
- Understand the use and impact of restrictive practices
Specialist areas of healthcareReal 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 healthcare
- Develop outcomes-based and person-centred practice within own specialist area of healthcare
Team leadership and management in healthcareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- 1: Understand the application of leadership and management theories
- 2: Understand leadership and management in healthcare settings
- 3: Lead own team
- 4: Manage teamwork
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
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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.
- Build a partnership between the team, patients and carers
- Carry out clinical trials in health
- Collaborate with partners to jointly commission services
- Develop Evidence
- Develop and agree plans for complementary and natural healthcare with clients
- Develop and optimise methods and techniques for delivery of services
- Develop clinical protocols for delivery of services
- Diagnose an individual’s severe and potentially severe, complex, multi system allergies
Where this can lead
Department Manager, Healthcare Operations
Your journey here is what you make it. We're looking for leaders who are committed to making a real difference in healthcare, whether that's by becoming a future C-suite executive or by becoming the absolute best at driving operational excellence from a specialist perspective. We'll support you every step of the way.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 9 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 for Assistant Practitioners in Healthcare
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Clinical skills in healthcare
- Communication and information management in healthcare
- Continuous improvement in healthcare
- Equality, diversity and inclusion in healthcare
- Health and safety in healthcare
- Human anatomy and physiology
and 14 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.