NCFE CACHE Level 2 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care

This NCFE CACHE Level 2 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care is ideal if you're considering a career in health and social care. During your studies, you'll explore the life stages of human growth and development and the events that can have an impact on this, as well as how you can safeguard vulnerable individuals within your role in health and social care. You will also learn more about the values, functions, and roles in the health and social care sector, how you can support individuals in your care who are affected by dementia, and the nutritional needs at different life stages. Once you have successfully completed this course, you could either move on to study a level 3 course in health and social care, or use the course to support your progression into a role in the sector. Relevant roles you could progress to include care support worker, healthcare assistant, and community-based support workers.

Course Content

Unit 1 HSC M1: Equality, diversity, and rights in health and social care (L/508/3709; unit level 2; GLH 70)

• Understand equality, diversity, and inclusion in health and social care
• Legislation, policies, procedures, and codes of practice in relation to equality, diversity, and inclusion
• Understand discrimination
• Approaches to challenge discrimination
• How the health and social care practitioner’s own values, beliefs, and experiences can influence delivery of care
• Understand person-centred practice
• How person-centred practice is used to support individuals
• Impacts of person-centred practice on individuals
• Ethical dilemmas that may arise when balancing individuals’ rights and duty of care

Unit 2 HSC M2: Human growth and development (F/508/3710; unit level 2; GLH 70)

• Understand human growth and development across the lifespan
• The life stages of human growth and development
• Social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development within each life stage
• Holistic development
• Understand influences which impact upon human growth and development
• The nature versus nurture debate in relation to human growth and development
• The medical model of health and wellbeing
• Factors which impact upon human growth and development
• The importance of recognising and responding to concerns regarding an individual’s growth and development
• Understand significant life events across the lifespan and impact on individual
• Understand how health and social care services meet the care needs of individuals through the lifespan

Unit 3 HSC M3: Safeguarding and protection in health and social care (J/508/3711; unit level 2; GLH 70)

• Safeguarding and legislation, policies, procedures, and codes of practice in relation to the safeguarding and protection
• Understand the role and responsibilities of the health and social care practitioner in relation to safeguarding
• How the health and social care practitioner safeguards individuals and themselves
• Understand types of abuse
• Signs, symptoms, indicators, and behaviours which may cause concern
• Factors which contribute to an individual being vulnerable to harm or abuse
• Understand action to be taken by the health and social care practitioner in response to evidence or concerns that an individual is at risk or has been harmed or abused
• The responsibilities of the health and social care practitioner in relation to whistleblowing
• The boundaries of confidentiality in relation to the safeguarding, protection and wellbeing of individuals
• Understand the benefits of working in partnership in relation to safeguarding and protection

Unit 4 HSC M4: Understand the benefits of working in partnership in relation to safeguarding and protection (L/508/3712; unit level 2; GLH 70)

• Understand effective communication
• Communication and language needs and preferences of individuals and others
• The skills of an effective communicator
• Understand professional relationships in health and social care
• Working relationships that a health and social care practitioner will have
• The role of communication in building and maintaining professional relationships in health and social care
• The term confidentiality and legislation, policies, and procedures relating to the management of information
• How the health and social care practitioner maintains security of data
• The tension between maintaining confidentiality and the need to disclose information

Unit 5 HSC M5: Working in health and social care (R/508/3713; unit level 2; GLH 70)

• Understand health and social care values across provision
• Legislation, policies, procedures, and codes of practice in relation to health and social care
• Health and social care values
• How individuals accessing health and social care services are valued
• Understand health and social care provision
• Functions of health and social care services
• Barriers to accessing health and social care services and how they may be overcome
• Definition of informal care and role of informal carers
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of the health and social care practitioner
• Skills, behaviours, and attributes required by health and social care practitioners
• Understand Continuing Professional Development
• Sources of support for learning and development
• Why Continuing Professional Development is integral to the role of the health and social care practitioner
• Understand reflection in relation to Continuing Professional Development
• The role of reflection within Continuing Professional Development

Unit 6 HSC O4: Dementia awareness (M/508/3718; unit level 2; GLH 35)

• Understand the types of dementia and the signs and symptoms
• The impact of dementia on an individual’s health and wellbeing
• Understand legislation and frameworks in relation to dementia care
• Understand how to support individuals with dementia
• The importance of an early diagnosis of dementia
• How person-centred care is used to support individuals with dementia
• The role of the health and social care practitioner in supporting the health and wellbeing of an individual with dementia
• Support available for individuals with dementia

Unit 7 HSC O10: Nutrition for health and social care (F/508/3724; unit level 2; GLH 35)

• Understand nutritional needs across the lifespan
• The components of a healthy diet
• Current nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet
• Nutritional needs across the life stages
• Understand the impact of diet on health and wellbeing
• Factors which influence dietary intake
• The impact of dietary intake on health and wellbeing
• Understand how the health and social care practitioner promotes a healthy diet