Who is the apprenticeship for?
The Senior Healthcare Support Worker programme will provide you with a tailored learning experience, the knowledge to provide high-quality and compassionate healthcare to adults. You will be able to follow and meet the standards, policies or protocols and always deliver care with compassion and dignity.
This programme also has a unique virtual hospital ward, which is designed to support you as you practice your skills and acquired knowledge in a virtual learning environment. Included is a range of tutorials, which are interactive and consolidate learning of more technical aspects of the Senior Health Care Support Worker role, for example circulation, breathing and a systematic approach to assessment.
Who will this apprenticeship support?
- Health and Social Care Workers moving into a clinical role
- Healthcare Support Workers moving into a senior role in the Adult Nursing sector
Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support
18 months
City & Guilds
What will you learn?
This apprenticeship will teach you how to communicate across your team and with patients with a focus on person-centred care and coaching & mentoring. You will have a duty of care & candour ensuring all adults under your care are safeguarded.
You will learn reflective practice, Self-awareness, knowledge around disability, dementia & other cognitive issues, and how to provide a systematic approach to assessment & examination.
How will you learn?
Our Personal Tutors will deliver high-quality face-to-face learning and coaching and provide all the resources you will need to progress quickly. Our intuitive learner management system ‘Bud’ will really bring the subject to life through interactive learning tools, access to complementary online resources and relevant social communities, as well as provide real-time information so that you will always know where you’re at in your learner journey.
This apprenticeship will develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours in the following areas:
Knowledge
- Communication
- Person-centred care
- Coaching & mentoring
- Duty of care & candour
- Safeguarding adults
- Reflective practice
- Self-awareness
- Disability, dementia & other cognitive issues
- Systematic approach to assessment & examination
- The range of physiological states
- Causes and spread of infection, to include COVID-19
Skills
- Reflective practitioner
- Communication skills
- Duty of care & candour
- Monitor & record physiological states
- Risk assessments
- Report deteriorations & change
- Infection prevention & control
- Build working relationships
- Equality, diversity & inclusion
- Deliver training through demonstration & instruction
Behaviours
- Caring
- Compassionate
- Honesty & courageous
- Resilient
- Committed
- Conscientious
- Self-aware
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Your pathway to success
Once you have completed your Senior Healthcare Support Worker
Level 3 apprenticeship Standard, the natural progression is to advance to the Leadership & Management for Adult Care Level 5 apprenticeship Standard.
The Leadership & Management for Adult Care Level 5 aprenticeship will develop your skills further and enhance your career prospects in the adult care sector.
At Paragon Skills we are committed to inspiring you to succeed, and are here to support you throughout every stage of your apprenticeship.
We are looking for learners as committed and as passionate as we are. If this sounds like you, then contact us today and start your career on the apprenticeship route with Paragon Skills.
Sunrise Healthcare
Paragon Skills work closely with us every step of the way. They really understood our operational and people development requirements, they listened to us and gave practical advice and suggestions during every stage of the design implementation process.
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