Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care (240 credits)

Cambridge Management and Leadership School Ltd

The qualification has been created to develop and reward the health and social care workers of today and the future, and to continue to bring recognition and professionalism to the health and social care sector.

The programmes provide the opportunity for individuals to forge a career in health and social care by seeking a greater knowledge and understanding industry, and to support the individual’s development into senior positions. The course aims for the following five themes of an academic plan:

1: Pursuing Excellence - Apply self-reflective, analytical, evaluative, intellectual, and transferable skills in private and public sectors.

2: Practice-led, knowledge-applied - Enable learners to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills required of a flexible creative practitioner.

3: Interdisciplinary - Develop a learner who is responsive to the changing interdisciplinary landscape, able to adapt to changing needs, paraprofessional roles and inter-professional working.

4: Employability-driven - To provide individuals with the knowledges, skills and behaviours necessary to forge a career within the health and social care sector, through the acquisition of in depth knowledge and understanding.

5: Internationalisation - Develop an understanding of the impact of diverse and cultural issues within health and social care.

Learners studying for the Certificate and Diploma in Health and Social Care will be expected to develop the following skills during the programme of study:

1. Analysing, synthesising and summarising information critically

2. The ability to read and use appropriate literature with a full and critical understanding the ability to think independently and solve problems

3. Apply subject knowledge and understanding to address familiar and unfamiliar problems

4. Recognise the moral and ethical issues of health and social care practice and research; appreciating the need for ethical standards and professional codes of conduct

5. An appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of health and social care service provision

6. Capacity to give a clear and accurate account of a subject, assemble arguments in a mature way and engage in debate and dialogue both with specialists and non-specialists

7. Transferable skills and knowledge which will enable individuals to meet changing needs

8. Circumstances, whether within their own area of employment, or through promotion to a supervisory or management position, or to adapt to changes in the health/social care environment

9. To motivate individuals to progress to further professional development through future study or as part of their chosen career.

These are the overall learning outcomes in line with foundation degree equivalences.

Start Month: January 2021 or February 2021 or March 2021