As part of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Programme, you will be required to develop Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours in the below areas within your organisation:

• Roles and responsibilities, including Health & Safety
• Becoming a reflective practitioner, including study skills for Senior Healthcare Support workers
• Putting the individual first – including person-centred approaches, mental wellbeing and mental health promotion, and equality and inclusion
• Duty of Care and Safeguarding and Protection
• Ethical Standards
• Infection Prevention and Control, including cleaning, decontamination, and waste management

The course will typically be completed over a 15-month period, which will include monthly knowledge delivery through either webinars or face-to-face sessions.

The learners will also be observed in the workplace on at least 2 occasions to identify the standards of competence are being met. There will also be recorded professional discussions covering competence towards the standard.

The tutor will complete a progress review in the first 6 weeks and every 10-12 weeks thereafter, which will require the Employer’s presence. All work will be stored on an electronic portfolio ready to be submitted to the End Point Assessment Organisation.

At the end of the 15th month, the learner will have a final assessment with an End Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO). Revision and mock activities will be completed with the learner prior to the final assessment.

As part of the Apprenticeship Standard, you will be required to complete an End Point Assessment (EPA) at the end of your programme with an external Independent Assessor (EPAO).  Throughout the programme, your tutor will prepare you for the End Point Assessment and complete mock assessments prior to your final assessment.

The following elements will be completed during the End Point Assessment for the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Standard

• Multiple Choice Test
• Observation
• Portfolio of Evidence
• Professional Discussion

At the end of the final assessment, the below grades will be awarded by the EPAO:

• Fail
• Pass
• Merit
• Distinction

As part of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Standard you will be achieving the following qualifications:

• Apprenticeship Standard Certificate in Senior Healthcare Support Worker
• Care Certificate
• Level 3 Diploma in Care
• Functional Skills Maths (Level 2)*
• Functional Skills English (Level 2)*

*Will be achieved if relevant qualification not already held prior to the Apprenticeship.

Typical applicants will display a good attitude, a positive approach to learning & development and a high level of ambition. Apprentices will need to sit an initial assessment in both English and Maths.

Where a learner does not hold an equivalent to or GSCE grade 4 (C) or above, you will need to sit Functional Skills Level 2 English and Maths prior to taking the End Point assessment.

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