Start your career in health and social care with our Level 2 Adult Care Apprenticeship

Gain valuable hands-on experience supporting older adults to remain independent in their own homes while earning, learning, and developing the skills needed for a rewarding career in care.

Wage

• £12,480 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
• National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Training course

• Adult care worker (level 2)

Hours

• Monday to Sunday, on a rota basis. Shifts between 07:00 - 14:00 or 16:00 - 22:00. 30 hours a week

Start date

• Monday 19 October 2026

Duration

• 1 year

Positions available

• 1

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working

You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

As a Home Care Worker Apprentice, you will:

• Provide high-quality care and support to individuals in their own homes.
• Promote dignity, independence, choice, privacy and respect for all service users.
• Support with personal care and daily living activities.
• Carry out light domestic duties including laundry, ironing and shopping.
• Assist with collecting prescriptions and supporting medication administration where trained and authorised.
• Accurately record care visits, daily notes and medication records using the rostering platform app.
• Monitor and report changes in service users' health, wellbeing or circumstances.
• Follow safeguarding, health and safety, confidentiality and company policies at all times.
• Participate in staff meetings, supervision sessions and mandatory training.
• Work towards achieving your apprenticeship qualification while developing your care skills.

Where you'll work

63-65 Fisherton Street
Salisbury
SP2 7SU

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.
• 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.