Entrance Level Social Care Practitioner
Continuous Learning Pathway
You are a new social care practitioner entering the social care workforce
As part of your continuous professional learning and development journey, your employer must provide you with an appropriate induction.
As part of your induction, your employer may also support you to undertake a new employment-based entrance level qualification, the Level 2 Certificate in Safe and Effective Practice, within your first 6 months of working in the social care sector, as part of your induction process.
Qualification Pathway
Level 2 Certificate in Safe and Effective Practice
This is an entrance qualification for those new to health and social care. The certificate will provide learners with foundational knowledge and skills to enable them to work as a social care practitioner within health and social care services. It will enable learners to gain knowledge and skills in:
- Standards and Values – Underpinning social care practice.
- Understand safeguarding in social care services.
- Safe moving and positioning of individuals in social care services.
- Environmental health and safety in social care services.
- Understand safe medication practice in social care.
- Safe food handing and dysphagia awareness in social care services.
- Emergency first aid in social care services.
Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care
The aim of this qualification is to enable learners working in health and social care to obtain the knowledge and skills to support them to develop in their career.
Areas covered include:
- Communication and information sharing
- Values-led practice
- Health and safety
- Continuous professional development in the context of health and social care
Learners will also be able to choose subjects that relate specifically to their area of service.
Entrance Level Social Care Practitioner Stories
Relevant Resources
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