Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship

Start a rewarding career where you can make a genuine difference every day! Through the Level 2 Adult Care Worker apprenticeship, you’ll earn while you learn, gain valuable hands-on experience and develop the confidence and skills to help adults live happy, independent and fulfilling lives.

What you'll do at work

• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care in line with each resident’s individual care plan.
• Assist residents with personal care, including bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting.
• Support residents with mobility while promoting their independence wherever possible.
• Encourage residents’ emotional wellbeing through meaningful activities, companionship and social interaction.
• Protect each resident’s dignity, privacy and rights at all times.
• Complete light housekeeping duties to help maintain a clean, safe and comfortable environment.
• Build positive and trusting relationships with residents, their families and colleagues.
• Follow all safeguarding, health and safety, infection prevention and confidentiality procedures.
• Accurately record and report any changes in residents’ health, behaviour or wellbeing.

Where you'll work

12 Burton Road
Branston
Burton-On-Trent
DE14 3DN

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider
E-TRAINING LIMITED

Training course
Adult care worker (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Apply national standards, organisational policies and procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role.
• Follow national legislation, policies and guidance in adult social care settings, relating to health and safety within the scope of own role.
• Consider the human rights of individuals in adult social care settings, in line with organisational policies relating to equity, diversity and inclusion to support an open culture.
• Demonstrate a duty of candour, and duty of care acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
• Apply a person-centred, co-produced approach when developing relationships with individuals to support their health and wellbeing.
• Assist with conducting risk assessments, which focus on positive risk taking, to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
• Apply the principles of positive and proactive care and support for those with lived experience to proactively avoid or reduce escalation, de-escalate, and manage conflict.
• Customise information, advice and guidance to individuals with or without capacity or their representative to make informed, independent choices and decisions.
• Adapt approach to care and support for individuals with lived experience to meet their current and evolving cognitive and physical needs and conditions.
• Recognise and respect how an individuals capacity determines their ability to make informed decisions about their needs.
• Identify and respond to signs and symptoms of changes in the physical and mental capacity, mental health and wellbeing of those with lived experience, and monitor, record and report changes.
• Use appropriate communication methods that are adapted to respond to the needs of individuals, stakeholders and family members in adult social care settings, including verbal, written, non-verbal and digital communication.
• Develop personal resilience and access support to maintain wellbeing of self.
• Use record keeping systems to maintain clear and accurate records of interactions with individuals, and others ensuring security of information and data.
• Apply methods of digital working and communication and new care technologies to support improvements in own work setting.
• Record learning opportunities in line with organisational policies that support lifelong learning and meet the relevant standards.
• Record, use feedback and supervision to improve own practice to identify and support the development of individual goals and career opportunities.
• Contribute and agree to the personal development plan demonstrating support required for new learning goals and reflection on actual practice.
• Monitors safe and effective administration of medicines in accordance with national and organisational policies and the limitations of own role.