This page has been archived because this level 5 Diploma qualification was discontinued in 2020 and is no longer available. However, I have retained the information because some of it is still pertinent to the new level 5 diploma in leadership and management in adult care and still may be of use.
The old Level 5 Diploma in Leadership has a number of pathways, which include children and young people, advanced practice and residential settings however this website focuses on the Adults’ Management pathway. This consists of thirteen mandatory units and a number of optional units. Your choice of optional units will depend on what the awarding body and your training provider can offer as well as personal preference.
The thirteen mandatory units are:
- Use and develop systems that promote communication
- Promote professional development (sample essay)
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion (sample essay)
- Develop health and safety and risk management policies procedures and practices in health and social care or children and young people’s settings (sample essay)
- Work in partnership in health and social care or children and young people’s settings (sample essay)
- Lead and manage a team within a health and social care or children and young people’s setting (sample essay 1) (sample essay 2)
- Develop professional supervision practice in health and social care or children and young people’s settings
- Manage health and social care practice to ensure positive outcomes for individuals (sample essay)
- Safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults
- Understand safeguarding of children and young people (for those working in the adult sector) (sample essay)
- Lead person-centred practice (sample essay)
- Assess the individual in a health and social care setting (sample essay)
- Undertake a research project within services for health and social care or children and young people
- Optional units