NQual · RQF Level 5
NQual 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 qualification35
Awarded by NQual · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This qualification is designed to provide learners with knowledge and skills relating to leadership and management in care settings. It will provide individuals with the chance to develop knowledge and gain skills to seek employment or progression onto higher level qualifications. The purpose of this qualification is to prepare individuals for progression in the care sector. The units specified within this document cover a variety of areas and topics relevant to the sector, including leadership and management in health care.
These are the units NQual 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.
Agree on Care Management Plans for Individuals Diagnosed with Long-Term ConditionsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop care management plans for individuals with long-term conditions
Coaching and Mentoring in Social CareReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand coaching and mentoring in social care
Continuous Improvements and InnovationsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand continuous quality improvement in adult social care
Continuous Professional Development and Personal Well-beingReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate commitment to own development
Decision MakingReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective decision-making
Digital Skills Within Care SettingsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to use digital devices and systems
Effective CommunicationReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Use communication skills to achieve positive interactions
Effective Information ManagementReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective information management
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human RightsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand equality, diversity, inclusion, and human rights
Follow Disciplinary and Grievance ProceduresReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to follow disciplinary and grievance procedures
Governance and Regulatory Processes in Adult CareReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and statutory guidance that underpins adult care provision
- Understand internal governance arrangements within own organisation
- Understand systems and requirements for the regulation of adult care services
- Understand the inspection process in own service
Handling Comments and ComplaintsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of comments and complaints
Health and Safety in the WorkplaceReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand health and safety requirements in adult social care
Health and Well-BeingReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Lead a culture that promotes individuals’ well-being
Independent AdvocacyReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of advocacy
Lead End of Life ServicesReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the current guidance and legislation relating to end of life care
Leadership and Management in Adult CareReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand leadership and management theories and styles
Leading a Person-Centred PracticeReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand person-centred, outcomes-based practice
Manage Finance and Budgeting in Adult CareReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand financial management in adult care settings
Manage Inductions in Adult CareReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand induction requirements and how to meet them
Manage Infection Prevention and ControlReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand infection prevention and control
Manage Physical Resources Within a Care SettingReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage resources within a care setting
Monitor Staff PerformanceReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage staff performance
Plan and Manage Interventions for Individuals who Have Long-Term ConditionsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different interventions for individuals who have long-term conditions
Provide Information, Advice and GuidanceReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of information, advice and guidance
Recruitment and SelectionReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for recruitment
Resource ManagementReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles for effective resource management
Safeguarding in the Adult Care EnvironmentReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand requirements for safeguarding in adult care
Setting and Achieving Organisation GoalsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisation you work for
Support Individuals to Manage their FinancesReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to access information about finances
Support Transition Between ServicesReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand transitions within adult care
Support with Accessing Housing and Accommodation ServicesReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the support available to access housing and accommodation services
Team Leading and Supervision in Adult CareReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for a team
Understanding Mental Capacity and ConsentReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understanding mental capacity and consent
Working Relationships and PartnershipsReal unit · NQual
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of relationships and 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
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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.
- Actively engage in the safe selection and recruitment of workers and their retention in care services
- Agree a care plan with a patient with chronic kidney disease
- Agree and plan the provision of interventions for managing neurological conditions
- Assess the healthcare needs of individuals with long term conditions and agree care plans
- Develop and agree care management plans with individuals diagnosed with long term conditions
- Develop capacity and capability to improve health and wellbeing
- Develop, sustain and implement a vision and objectives for improving health and wellbeing
- Enable individuals to manage changes in their long term conditions
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 own work
Understanding how to develop care management plans for individuals with long-term conditions.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NQual Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care
35 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NQual.
- Agree on Care Management Plans for Individuals Diagnosed with Long-Term Conditions
- Coaching and Mentoring in Social Care
- Continuous Improvements and Innovations
- Continuous Professional Development and Personal Well-being
- Decision Making
- Digital Skills Within Care Settings
and 29 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.