Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care

Course Overview

Learners who undertake the Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological, or intellectual challenges. They will have achieved a level of self-development to be recognised as a lead practitioner within the care team, contributing to, promoting, and sustaining a values-based culture at an operational level. Learners will have specialist skills and knowledge in their area of responsibilities which will allow them to lead in areas such as care needs assessment, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and enablement, telecare, and assistive technology.

Lead Practitioners in Adult Care may have the responsibility of coaching and mentoring others and will have a role in assessing performance and quality of care delivery. Lead Practitioners in Adult Care may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, day centres, a person’s own home or some clinical healthcare settings. As well as covering Lead Practitioners in Adult Care this standard also covers Lead Personal Assistants who can work at this senior level, but they may only work directly for one individual who needs support and/or care services, usually within their own home.

These are personal attributes and behaviours expected from a Lead Practitioner in Adult Care carrying out their roles. Individuals should be caring, compassionate, committed and demonstrate effective communication skills in the workplace.

Learners without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this prior to taking their End Point Assessment.

Apprenticeship standard PDF

Here is a PDF that details the full standard for this apprenticeship including the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours that learners must demonstrate.

Apprenticeship standard – Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care

End Point Assessment Process

The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care qualification consists of two discrete assessment methods:

Observation of practice
Professional discussion

The performance in the Learners End Point Assessment will determine their overall apprenticeship standard and grade.

Progression Courses

Level 5 Leader in Adult Care

Learners who undertake this apprenticeship will have a great depth of knowledge and expertise of particular conditions being experienced by the user of services. They will gain specialised skills and knowledge which will allow them to lead in areas such as occupational therapy, care needs assessment, physiotherapy, telecare and assistive, rehabilitation and enablement. It is the Lead Practitioners role to become a coach and mentor to others, ensuring quality of care is being delivered to the best of its ability.

Personal attributes and behaviours expected:

Care – you must care enough about the individual/individuals to make a positive difference to their life
Compassion – you must deliver care and support with kindness, consideration, dignity, empathy and respect
Courage – you must speak up if an individual if you feel they are at risk
Communication – you must have good communication skills, as it is crucial to the success of caring relationships and effective teamwork
Competence – you must apply your knowledge and skills to provide high-quality care and support
Commitment – be committed to improving the experience of people who need care and support. Treat everyone equally

As a requirement of this Apprenticeship Standard learners will have to complete an End Point Assessment which includes an observation of practice and a professional discussion with an independent assessor.

Learners will be assigned an assessor who will regularly observe you in your workplace and discuss your work and the work products you use. Besides working closely with your assessor, you will need to work independently to plan your assessments and complete assignments, reflective tasks and written work as needed to meet the learning outcomes and apprenticeship standard.

Qualifications

Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care.
Apprentices without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to completion of their Apprenticeship.