Awareness of Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care – Level 2

Required qualifications

This course is open to anyone who has worked in a care setting and has some knowledge of a care setting routine, procedures and person-centred care.

A good level of literacy is required in order to complete this qualification – reading, writing and comprehension, as these are knowledge-based qualifications. You need to be able to understand what you have read within the learning materials and answer the assessment questions in your own words and in full sentences.

What skills will I develop?

You will learn about the fundamental principles and values that underpin adult social care. Equality, diversity and inclusion are an important part of our everyday lives and this course delivers guidance that helps you to put it into practice. It covers safeguarding and protection and how to ensure vulnerable adults are kept safe from harm and what happens if they are not. It is a very good all round course that teaches you the basic skills that are needed to deliver a high standard of care.

Careers

This is a very good course to set you on a career path in adult social care. From this course you could progress to level 3 and then if you wanted to pursue a managerial role, level 5.

English and maths

Your work will be assessed for appropriate English and maths; corrections will be identified, and any development points will be highlighted to you.