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This online course is ideal for anyone looking to start or develop a career in health and social care, or in any role where understanding care planning is essential. You’ll explore the principles and practice of person-centred thinking, planning, and reviews, developing the knowledge and skills needed to work effectively with individuals and support the activities outlined in their care or support plans. You’ll also gain valuable insight into the importance of nutrition and hydration in promoting health and wellbeing, how to support individuals with sleep, and the key principles of maintaining personal hygiene and managing continence.
Please contact adultlearning@hsdc.ac.uk for specific entry requirements. To enrol on this Adult Learning course you must be aged 19 years or over.
Unit 1: Understanding person-centered thinking and planning, Unit 2: Care planning for the care worker, Unit 3: Understanding nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings, Unit 4: Principles of supporting an individual to maintain personal hygiene, Unit 5: Understanding continence care, Unit 6 Principles of supporting sleep.
Once you have enrolled on the course, you will be allocated a tutor and assigned to your learning platform. An induction will follow and then you will be able to commence your course.
You will be assessed by submitting individual units of work and will receive feedback for each unit as you progress. There is no final exam.
On completion of this course, you will be ready for the workplace or have enhanced your existing work skills. You could progress on to any other distance learning course or look at the Level 3 options.
The staff that will be supporting you through this course have sector expertise.
