Innovate Awarding · RQF Level 5
IAO 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 credits94
- Guided learning478 hours
- Units in this qualification20
Awarded by Innovate Awarding · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Anatomy, physiology, health and well beingReal 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 inclusionReal 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 settingsReal 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 lifespanReal 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 philosophyReal 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 settingsReal 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 settingsReal 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 individualsReal 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 controlReal 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 settingReal 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 measurementReal 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 teamReal 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 balanceReal 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 developmentReal 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 peopleReal 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 adultsReal 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 peopleReal 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 communicationReal 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 settingsReal 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 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.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- 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
Where this can lead
Lead Healthcare Compliance Manager
The truth is, a career in healthcare compliance is incredibly impactful and always evolving. From this Lead role, you're building the foundational expertise and leadership skills that can take you right to the top, safeguarding organisations and ensuring ethical patient care at the highest levels. It's a challenging path, but for the right person, it's incredibly rewarding.
See the whole journey →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
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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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.
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.