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Social Care for Communities (Level 4) Course


UK Learning College

Summary

Price
£473.75 inc VAT
Study method
Distance learning
Duration
120 hours · Self-paced
Qualification
Social Care for Communities (Level 4)
Awarded by NCFE
Additional info
  • Tutor is available to students

Overview

A distance learning course is the ideal way to gain a Social Care for Communities diploma. Whether you're looking to go on to further education, improve your job prospects or expand your knowledge, distance learning Social Care for Communities is a flexible and convenient course, which allows you to comprehensively prepare for exam or career through home study. What's more, because the distance learning Level 4 Social Care for Communities course is a fully comprehensive course, no prior knowledge is required.

This course is for those who have an interest in Social Care. Health and Social Care is one of the largest sectors in the UK, employing over 1.8 million people. This course will explore the role of social care in communities, examining the relevant frameworks and procedures necessary for working within this field.

Description

How is the course structured?

The Level 4 in Social Care for Communities is divided into six comprehensive modules.

Unit 1: History of Social Care in Communities

  • Development of social policy perspectives
  • The legal framework of community care
  • The challenges of modernisation
  • Economy of care
  • Assessment and provision of services
  • The experiences of practice in community care

Unit 2: Assessment, Care Planning and Review

  • The statutory framework
  • Needs-led assessment
  • Record keeping
  • Care planning
  • Interventions and risk assessment
  • Monitoring and review of services and service provision
  • Evaluation of support services
  • Quality assurance and the outcomes approach to quality

Unit 3: Roles and Values

  • Defining and describing roles
  • Skills training
  • Carer issues
  • Values
  • Participation and empowerment
  • Rights and discrimination
  • Mental health issues

Unit 4: Meeting Social Needs

  • Service provision costs and payments
  • Benefits and allowances
  • Residential care costs
  • Financial management
  • Health and social care definitions
  • Partnership working
  • Continuing care
  • Future care development
  • Housing needs

Unit 5: Adult Services

  • Scope of adult services
  • Services for older people
  • Transitional services
  • Contextual services provision: disability and mental health services
  • HIV/AIDs
  • Substance misuse
  • Services for asylum seekers

Unit 6: Children's Services

  • Scope of children’s services
  • Legislation relating to child protection and care orders
  • Abuse and neglect
  • Specialist skills for working in children's services
  • Residential and foster care
  • Adoption

Home Study Tutor Support

You will be provided with comprehensive materials designed to provide you with everything required to complete your Social Care for Communities course. You will have your own personal tutor helping you with your course work and with any questions you may have. Plus you can contact our Student Advisors by email or phone for all the practical advice you may need – so we really are with you 100%.

What's more, you'll have access to the online student portal, where you can interact with other students, browse our resource library and manage your account.

Extra Online Support

The tutor has now set up a forum for all of our students studying Health Care and related courses. This will assist you with your studies, as not only will you get full tutor support from a professional tutor for the duration of the course, you will also get help from other students who are studying at the same time and also get an insight to other related courses by talking to them

This is a great community for all those students who wish to interact with others in the same situation and get friendly advice, ideas and comments. You will be able to interact with students studying the following courses:

  • Understanding Abuse and Trauma
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • Understanding Eating Disorders
  • Introduction to Counselling
  • Working with a Diagnosis of Personality Disorder

Your tutor will provide all the details of how to get onto this forum if you decide to order the course.

Course Assessments

The Social Care for Communities course is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following NCFE guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

We send the full course out, you then read through the course in your own time and complete the assignments which you send to your tutor for marking. There is no word count for these assignments. However, one sentence answers will be rejected and you will have to re-submit it for marking.

Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by the national awarding organisation NCFE, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the programme.


What's Included? What do I get when I enrol?

Your course fee covers everything you will need to successfully complete the Social Care for Communities home study course and earn your diploma:

1. All textbooks, study folders, and/or online learning aids designed for distance learning
2. A full range of student services, including:

  • Tutor marked assessments (TMAs)
  • Access to the online student portal (Student Chat, Forums and Online Support Resources)
  • NUS Extra Card (discounted membership)
  • Comprehensive Study Guide & Study Plan
  • Guide to Effective Study Techniques
  • How to approach exams without fear

3. An accredited award upon successful course completion directly from the awarding body NCFE
4. One year's educational support by e-mail, post, fax or phone
5. Free postage and packaging for UK mainland students

Requirements

The good news is that no prior learning knowledge or experience is essential to take this course. This course is openly available to anyone wishing to learn more about Social Care for Communities and would like to take part in a highly rewarding home study course. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and study further, so we try to keep our entry requirements to a minimum.

Career path

Care Assistant

If you enjoy helping people and want to make a difference to their lives, this job could be just what you are looking for. As a care assistant you would help people who have difficulties with their daily activities. You could work with children, people with physical or learning disabilities, older people or families.

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Study method describes the format in which the course will be delivered. At Reed Courses, courses are delivered in a number of ways, including online courses, where the course content can be accessed online remotely, and classroom courses, where courses are delivered in person at a classroom venue.

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