Care Manager training

Care Manager training delivers essential mandatory training on care leadership and management for Care Business Owners, Directors, Managers, Line managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Care Coordinators. This Care Manager training enabling you to gain all the required skills and knowledge needed as a care manager, and a leader in a care setting.

This Care Manager training provides rapid access to essential learning in leadership and management for adult care settings.

Once you successfully complete this course on leadership and management in adult care settings, you can progress to working in leadership and management roles in adult care settings

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

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

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
• To support learning and progression to any recognised qualifications
• 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.

Why study with Courses For Jobs Ltd

Our Process for studying, learning support, exams, tests, and certificates, make it easy for anyone to gain the learning they need, regardless of their ability or devices they own.

Delivered in our modern secure password-protected online LMS (Learning Management System). No downloads or PDFs required.

To study your coursework, all the learner has to do is "point and click", making it easy to get through 100% of learning resources, tests, certificates, etc.

The only requirement is learner's email address so that login details can be emailed to the learner.

Our LMS provides you with easy online access to all your learning materials, your assignments, your completion certificates, along with dedicated support by assessors, tutors, and peers via the private online community for the particular course.

You will receive quick responses via the LMS, to your queries and requests for support.

After taking a test linked to the course, the results are immediately available. Retakes of tests can be done anytime.

When logged into our LMS, you can keep track of all of your assessments and assignments. You will see the progress of each of the courses you are studying, and within each course a progress bar is also seen. In addition, you will receive weekly email reminders, thereby enabling you to stay on track with your studies.

On completing a course, the completion certificate is immediately available to you as a PDF document in your secure online learner account, for you to download whenever you want.

Each certificate of completion has a unique code and a unique link. Your certificate(s) of completion remains permanently in your learner account within our LMS.

Within your learner account is a link to each certificate, that you can share with employers and recruiters to view your completion certificate(s) online. Therefore you don't need to email each certificate as attachment to recruiters or employers, as they can view it via the link you share with them.

This is useful for learners who don't have the resources to download or store documents.

Sharing the link to your PDF certificates contributes to sustainability, reduces climate change and is kinder to the environment as paper is made from trees, and also saves you printing and postage costs

Please be informed that this course doesn't provide any formal qualification.

The objective of this Care Manager training is to deliver leadership and 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.

What you will learn

The Care Manager training covers the essential leadership and management knowledge required by managers and leaders working in health and social care settings, including the following topic areas:

• Standards for Leaders and 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
• Job Progression

Details of Topic areas covered include:

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

Progression to Ofqual-recognised qualifications

After completing this course, the learner can progress to any of the relevant Ofqual-recognised qualifications, such as:

• Highfield Level 4 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF) - for aspiring Care managers, Deputy Managers, and Assistant Managers
• Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF) (England) - for CQC Registered Manager, directors, CQC Nominated Individuals, and other senior leaders and senior managers of care settings. .

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.

This course is for:

• Anyone wanting to become a supervisor, manager, or team leaders in care settings
• For updating your ongoing professional development
• To support learning and progression to any recognised qualifications
• 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.

This Care Manager training supports those aiming to progress to leadership and management jobs roles within all areas of care industry.

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

Successful learners will work in the following care settings:

• Hospitals, GP Surgeries and other acute health settings
• Domiciliary services (home care/home help)
• Residential care (care homes)
• Community care such as Day Care
• Supported living projects
• Community-based care
• Managing Live-in Personal Assistants working within individuals' personal homes

Currently there are no Q&As for this course. Be the first to ask a question.

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included