Leadership and Management for Adult Care

This Leadership and Management for Adult Care course enables learners to quickly gain essential knowledge in leadership and management for adult care, without the long-term commitment of a qualification.

This course is available to anyone, anywhere.

There is no geographical restriction, and no eligibility criteria, making this course accessible to all, regardless of location or previous experience.

There is no prior requirement to be in a management job to study for this course.

How to use this learning resource

• To prepare to become a supervisor, manager, or team leaders in care settings
• For updating your ongoing professional development
• Managers and Business Owners can use this course to support the professional development of your team members who you want to promote to Team Leaders, Supervisors, or Deputy Managers.
• To support learning and progression to Level 4 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF), for new managers
• To support learning and progression to Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF) for CQC Registered Managers and other existing managers , senior managers, and directors in care services.

This course is for everyone working within adult care services, including those who want to work in a management position within the health and social care sector including:

• Care Business Owners
• Directors
• Registered managers,
• Service Managers
• Quality Managers
• Deputy care managers
• Assistant care managers,
• Team leaders
• Team supervisors
• Care team leaders
• Care supervisors
• Care coordinators,
• Senior Care Assistants, aspiring to management roles
• Care assistants, aspiring to management roles
• all those aspiring to similar job roles

Working in all care settings such as:

• domiciliary care,
• residential care,
• hospital care,
• primary care,
• mental health services
• all other areas of NHS care
• other community based care services
• child care
• and any other regulated care setting

This course in Leadership and Management for Adult Care, is delivered online by Courses For Jobs Ltd in our secure password-protected LMS (Learning Management System).

All the learner requires is a functioning email address to receive their login details by email.

Learning resources for this course are delivered in our LMS for easy access for low internet-bandwidth devices, and small screens such as mobile phones and tablets, anywhere in the world.

What you will learn (see details in Description sections)

The Leadership and Management for Adult Care course covers the essential knowledge required in management of health and social care settings including the following topic areas:

• Induction Standards for Managers of Care Settings
• General Leadership and Management principles
• Practical Leadership Behaviours and Attitudes in Health and Social Care Settings
• Leadership and Management in health and social care
• Governance and regulatory processes in health and social care
• Managing Communication and Information Governance in health and social care
• Managing Relationships and Partnership-working in health and social care
• Managing Person-centred practice for positive outcomes in health and social care
• Managing Professional development, supervision and performance in health and social care
• Managing Resources in health and social care
• Managing Safeguarding, Protection and Risk in health and social care
• Self Management of the Care Leader and Manager
• Management Decision making in health and social care
• Entrepreneurial skills, Innovation and Change Management in health and social care
• Progression

The objective of this Leadership and Management for Adult Care is to introduce management principles and practices to anyone who works in a care setting or intends to work in a care setting. This course prepares learners to progress into a management role within the care setting.

The course covers the essential leadership and management knowledge required by managers and leaders of health and social care settings.

Topic areas covered include:

Induction Standards for Managers of Care Settings

• Details of the Standards
• How these Manager Standards relate to other Care Standards

General Leadership and Management principles

• Defining the concept of "leadership" and "management"
• Leadership Theories and Models
• Leadership Skills
• Leadership Styles
• Management Theories and Models
• Types of Managers
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors
• Line management
• Management Skills
• Modern ways of managing
• Comparing Leadership Vs Management at work
• Assigned and Emergent Leadership
• Importance of awareness of emergent leaders

Practical Leadership Behaviours and Attitudes in the care workplace

• Seven different dimensions of leadership behaviours
• Four different leadership levels at work
• Developing own self-awareness
• Self Management
• Continuing personal development
• Acting with integrity
• Working within teams
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Encouraging contribution
• Developing networks
• Planning services
• Managing and allocating resources
• Managing people
• Managing performance
• Ensuring the safety of people who use services
• Critically evaluating the service and the organisation
• Encouraging improvement and innovation
• Facilitating transformation
• Identifying the contexts for change
• Applying knowledge and evidence
• Making decisions
• Evaluating impact
• Developing the vision for the organisation
• Communicating the vision
• Embodying the vision
• Influencing the vision of the wider health and social care system
• Framing the strategy
• Developing the strategy
• Implementing the strategy
• Embedding the strategy

Leadership and Management in Care Settings

• Leadership and management in adult care
• Leadership values in care settings
• Leadership levels in care settings
• Raising awareness of the need for developing effective leadership skills
• Understanding what is a team
• Leading and managing teams
• Supervising and developing teams

Governance and regulatory processes in care settings

• CQC regulation
• CQC inspection process
• Key drivers, legislation and policies within the social care sector
• Role of the nominated individual
• Range of regulation processes
• Governance and accountability
• Relevant legislation and policy

Managing Communication and Information Governance in care settings

• Communicating effectively with others
• Systems for information management
• Information sharing
• Relevant legislation and policy

Managing Relationships and partnership working in care settings

• Partnership working
• Partnerships, cooperation and integration
• Working with carers, family and friends

Managing Person-centred practice for positive outcomes in care settings

• Understanding and implementing personalisation
• Outcome-based working
• The person in personalisation
• Embedding personalisation in practice
• Leading outcomes-based and person-centred practice
• Equality, diversity and inclusion
• Quality
• Continuous quality improvement within your organisation/work setting
• Developing a culture of continuous improvement

Managing Professional development, supervision and performance in care settings

• Workforce development
• Core skills
• Professional supervision
• Performance management

Managing Resources in care settings

• Resource management
• Finance management
• Human resource management
• Value based recruitment and retention polices
• Managing buildings
• Performance management of the service

Managing Safeguarding, protection and risk in care settings

• Promoting safeguarding and protection
• Reporting safeguarding concerns
• Safeguarding investigations
• Responding to suspected or alleged abuse of children and young people whilst working with adults
• Health and safety
• Assessing risk in the workplace
• Use of restrictive practices
• Managing complaints within the workplace
• Positive risk taking in the context of person centred and outcome based practice
• Mental capacity

Self Management of the Care Leader and Manager

• Self-awareness
• Managing own behaviour
• Management of own workload
• Managing Own personal development
• How to champion the vision of the organisation

Management Decision making in care settings

• Purpose and process of decision making
• Making decisions
• Communication when making decisions
• Reviewing decision making process

Entrepreneurial skills, Innovation and Change Management in care settings

• Developing and championing the organisation’s vision
• Understanding wider market of social care provision
• Entrepreneurial aspects of nurturing champions and innovators
• Importance of vision
• Context of Change management
• What drives change
• Eight Steps of Managing change
• Principles of Workforce Redesign
• Recognise the different ways people, organisations and partnerships respond to change

There is no requirement to be in a management job to study for this course.

This course is available to everyone, everywhere.

There is no geographical restriction, and no eligibility criteria. These make this course accessible to all who are not able to study for Ofqual-recognised qualifications due to being outside England.

Prospective learners are those who want to work in a management position within the health and social care sector including:

• Care Business Owners
• Directors
• Registered managers,
• Service Managers
• Quality Managers
• Deputy care managers
• Assistant care managers,
• Team leaders
• Team supervisors
• Care team leaders
• Care supervisors
• Care coordinators,
• Senior Care Assistants, aspiring to management roles
• Care assistants, aspiring to management roles
• all those aspiring to similar job roles

Working in all care settings such as:

• domiciliary care,
• residential care,
• hospital care,
• primary care,
• mental health services
• all other areas of NHS care
• other community based care services
• child care
• and any other regulated care setting.

This course also supports those aiming to progress to full recognised qualifications such as:

• Level 4 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF) - for new managers

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care - for existing managers and those wanting to register with CQC.

This course is delivered online, and all the learner needs is access to an internet-enabled device.

This course is delivered in English.

Anyone can study this course.

Progress to Care Manager and Supervisory jobs

Progress to Qualifications:

• Level 4 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF) - for new managers
• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care - for existing managers and those wanting to register with CQC.

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included