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- The centre assesses, and Innovate Awarding awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Innovate Awarding.
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These are the units Innovate Awarding 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Anatomy, physiology, health and well being Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic anatomical structure of the human body.
- Understand the physiological functions of the major body systems.
- Understand the interrelationship between the human body's systems and their impact on overall health and well-being.
Champion equality, diversity and inclusion Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of diversity, equality and inclusion in the context of your own area of responsibility.
- Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion in your own area of responsibility.
- Champion diversity, equality and inclusion in all aspects of your work.
- Promote a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion within your team and organisation.
- Understand how to develop systems and processes that actively promote diversity, equality and inclusion.
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of systems and processes designed to promote diversity, equality and inclusion.
- Manage the risks that may arise when balancing individual rights with professional duty of care.
- Understand the legal and ethical frameworks that underpin the balancing of individual rights and professional duty of care.
Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the current legislative framework and organisational health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices that are relevant to health, and social care or children and young people’s settings.
- Implement and monitor compliance with health, safety and risk management requirements in health and social care or children and young people’s settings.
- Lead the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to manage risk to individuals and others in health and social care or children and young people’s settings.
- Promote a culture where needs and risks are balanced with health and safety practice in health and social care or children and young people’s settings.
- Improve health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings, based on evaluation and feedback.
Healthcare needs during an individual’s lifespan Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different stages of development throughout an individual's lifespan
- Understand the various influences on health and wellbeing at different stages of life
- Understand the provision of care required over different life stages, considering individual needs
Healthcare philosophy Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core concepts which underpin the notion of healthcare, including its aims, values, and ethical considerations.
- Understand different models of healthcare delivery, such as the biomedical model, the social model, and the holistic model.
- Understand how different models of care influence their own practice and the care provided to individuals.
Lead and manage a team in healthcare settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of leadership and management within healthcare settings
- Understand the application of leadership and management principles in healthcare
- Lead commitment to a shared vision for the service
- Provide effective leadership for a team within a healthcare environment
- Manage team working to achieve organisational goals
Lead practice for communication and information management in care settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of communication in health settings
- Develop communication systems and practices that support positive outcomes
- Implement systems for effective information management
Lead the assessment of and support others to assess the health and wellbeing of individuals Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process for assessing the health and well-being of individuals using a person-centred approach
- Demonstrate effective assessment of the health and well-being of individuals
- Develop and review plans based on the assessment of the health and well-being of individuals
- Support others to undertake assessment of the health and well-being of individuals
Manage infection prevention and control Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation, policies and procedures relating to infection control processes within a healthcare setting
- Implement legislation, policies and procedures relating to infection prevention and control effectively
- Support others to apply infection prevention and control legislation, policies and procedures correctly
- Review the effectiveness of the legislation, policies and procedures for infection prevention and control and their implementation, identifying areas for improvement
Manage quality in health and social care or children and young people's setting Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of quality assurance in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting, including relevant legislation, regulations, and frameworks.
- Implement quality standards in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting, ensuring compliance and promoting best practice.
- Lead the evaluation of quality processes in a health and social care or children and young people’s setting, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes.
Perform and support others to perform physiological measurement Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation, policies and procedures related to undertaking physiological measurements
- Understand the anatomy and physiology associated with performing physiological measurements
- Understand the upper and lower parameters of normal physiological measurements
- Know the conditions which can affect physiological measurement results
- Perform physiological measurements accurately and safely
- Support others in performing physiological measurements effectively
Principles of developing and leading a health care work team Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different theories of leadership and management and analyse their impact on team dynamics and effectiveness.
- Understand theories of team development and team working, including the stages of team formation and the roles within a team.
- Understand how to effectively manage team performance, including setting objectives, providing feedback, and addressing performance issues.
Promote and support others to promote effective nutrition and fluid balance Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation, policies and procedures related to nutrition and fluid balance in health and social care
- Understand the impact of social, cultural and lifestyle factors on an individual’s nutrition and fluid balance
- Understand the impact of ill health on an individual’s nutrition and fluid balance requirements
- Understand the requirement for dietary and fluid supplements to meet individual needs
- Promote effective nutrition and fluid balance for individuals
- Support others in promoting effective nutrition and fluid balance
Promote professional development Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles that underpin professional development within a relevant sector.
- Understand the requirements of professional development within a relevant sector.
- Prioritise goals for own professional development, taking into account personal strengths and areas for improvement.
- Prioritise targets for own professional development, ensuring they are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART).
- Prepare a professional development plan that aligns with organisational objectives.
- Improve performance through reflective practice, identifying areas for development and implementing strategies for improvement.
Safeguarding and protection of children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures relating to the safeguarding of children and young people.
- Lead practice within the workplace that effectively supports the safeguarding and protection of children and young people.
- Support colleagues and other professionals to safeguard and protect children and young people.
Safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislation, regulations and policies that underpin the protection of vulnerable adults.
- Lead service provision that protects vulnerable adults.
- Manage inter-agency, joint or integrated working in order to protect vulnerable adults.
- Monitor and evaluate the systems, processes and practice that safeguards vulnerable adults.
Understand safeguarding of children and young people _for those working in the adult sector_ Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children and young people, within the context of the adult sector
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed, following agreed protocols and reporting procedures
Undertake a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Justify a suitable topic for research within services for health and social care or children and young people, demonstrating its relevance and significance.
- Understand how the various components of research are used in the research process, including methodology, data collection, and analysis.
- Conduct a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people, adhering to ethical guidelines and research principles.
- Analyse research findings, drawing valid conclusions and making appropriate recommendations.
Use and develop systems that promote communication Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Address the range of communication requirements in own role.
- Improve communication systems and practices that support positive outcomes for individuals.
- Improve communication systems to support partnership working.
- Use systems for effective information management.
Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings Real unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and benefits of partnership working in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Establish and maintain working relationships with colleagues, promoting effective communication and collaboration
- Establish and maintain working relationships with other professionals from different agencies, respecting their roles and expertise
- Work in partnership with others to achieve shared goals, contributing to positive outcomes for service users
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Assure the quality of data and information in a health context
- Standard
Lead and manage effective communication that promotes positive outcomes for people within care services
- Standard
Work in partnership with others to make a preliminary assessment of the impact of policies and strategies on health and wellbeing
- Standard
Work in partnership with others to undertake a full assessment of the impact of policies and strategies on health and wellbeing
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Lead Healthcare Compliance Manager
This role builds the expertise and leadership skills needed for a Director of Healthcare Compliance role or a Chief Compliance Officer role.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Innovate Awarding rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Anatomy, physiology, health and well beingChampion equality, diversity and inclusionDevelop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settingsHealthcare needs during an individual’s lifespanHealthcare philosophyLead and manage a team in healthcare settingsLead practice for communication and information management in care settingsLead the assessment of and support others to assess the health and wellbeing of individuals
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Safeguarding and protection of children and young people” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Undertake a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Champion equality, diversity and inclusion” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Assure the quality of data and information in a health context
- Lead and manage effective communication that promotes positive outcomes for people within care services
- Work in partnership with others to make a preliminary assessment of the impact of policies and strategies on health and wellbeing
- Work in partnership with others to undertake a full assessment of the impact of policies and strategies on health and wellbeing
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Anatomy, physiology, health and well being, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides foundational knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, focusing on body structure, major systems, and their functions. Learners will explore the interrelationships between body systems and their impact on health and well-being.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for IAO Level 5 Diploma for Assistant Practitioners in Healthcare
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Innovate Awarding.
- Anatomy, physiology, health and well being
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Healthcare needs during an individual’s lifespan
- Healthcare philosophy
- Lead and manage a team in healthcare settings
and 14 more in the full unit list below.
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