| This diploma programme is to equip learners with the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills required for a career or further study in the health and social care sector at a managerial level. The programme enables learners to demonstrate their skills by producing evidence from their work or training activities.
Unit 1: Promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Health and Social Care
Learning objective: The aim of this unit is to enable learners to develop strategies for implementing and leading excellence in practice in respect of equality, diversity and rights in a health and social care setting. The unit also explores how to manage risk and balance rights with duty of care in health and social care settings.
Unit 2: Professional Development and Academic Writing
Learning objective: The aim of the unit is to deepen learners’ understanding of professional development and to help them explore their own development as a manager in health and social care. The unit also introduces learners to the skills necessary for academic writing, when engaging in continuous professional development.
Unit 3: Communication in the Caring Professions
Learning objective: The aim of this unit is for the learner to build skills and knowledge in effective communication practices, recognising this as an important role of senior personnel working in a health or social care setting. The unit also introduces the role of systems and procedures in supporting safe and efficient use of information.
Unit 4: Principles of Health and Safety for Health Professions
Learning objective: The aim of the unit is for learners to understand the health and safety responsibilities within their role, how to manage and carry out risk assessments and the importance of complying with health and safety requirements.
Unit 5: Assessment Processes in Health and Social Care Settings
Learning objective: The aims of the unit are to develop learners’ knowledge of forms of assessment, to develop their reviewing and planning skills when carrying out assessments, and how to meet the needs of individuals accessing services.
Unit 6: Resource Management in Health and Social Care
Learning objective: The aim of the unit is for learners to understand the fundamentals of human resources and team management, as well as how organisational resources are managed in respect to regulation, inspection and finances.
Unit 7: Working in Partnership in Health and Social Care
Learning objective: The aim of this unit is to provide learners with the underpinning skills and knowledge required to develop productive and new partnership working opportunities within their own and other organisations.
Unit 8: Managing the Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Individuals
Learning objective: The aim of this unit is to provide learners with an understanding of the legal framework for safeguarding and protecting vulnerable individuals, whilst developing the knowledge and skills required to manage and develop staff understanding of this critical area. Learners will become aware that, because of the changing and dynamic nature of safeguarding, the need to manage, monitor and update their knowledge of safeguarding issues is vital in order for them to perform their role legally and effectively.
Unit 9: Health Education and Promoting Wellbeing
Learning objective: This unit will develop learners understanding of approaches to health education and the methods that are used to identify health inequalities. Theoretical models using health education to bring about behaviour change will be examined and learners will be able to design a health education campaign
Unit 10: Team Management in Health and Social Care
Learning objective: The aim of this unit is for the learner to show that they can manage and supervise a team and develop their performance in the health and social care setting. The unit also explores recruitment in health and social care settings.
Unit 11: Professional Supervision Practice in Health and Social Care
Learning objective: Professional Supervision is a legal and regulatory requirement of health and social care settings. This unit covers theories relating to supervision and the purpose and processes of professional supervision, together with performance management and methods of managing and addressing conflict.
Unit 12: Research Methods in Health and Social Care
Learning objective: This unit aims to develop learners’ understanding of the purpose of research in the health and social care sectors and the implications and ethical issues relating to this research. Learners will be able to explore different research methodologies, enable them to plan and conduct their own research relating to a health or social care issue and evaluate the success of the outcomes. |
