Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Care Planning (NCFE)

Course Summary

Care workers play a key role in ensuring that their residents/patients are treated with a friendly and caring approach. This course ensures that individuals understand their role in person-centred thinking, planning and reviews when supporting residents/patients.

The course covers:

Unit 1: Understanding person-centred thinking and planning
This unit provides learners with knowledge and understanding of the principles and processes of person-centred thinking, planning and reviews

Unit 2: Care planning for the care worker
This unit provides learners with the knowledge and understanding required to facilitate working with individuals to carry out activities specified in their care or support plan, including person-centred assessment, planning, implementation and review

Unit 3: Understanding nutrition and hydration in health and social care settings
This unit provides learners with the knowledge and understanding of promoting health and well-being through nutrition and hydration

Unit 4: Principles of supporting an individual to maintain personal hygiene
This unit provides learners with the underpinning knowledge for supporting individuals in maintaining personal hygiene. It covers good personal hygiene routines and why these are important, as well as the causes of poor personal hygiene

Unit 5: Understanding continence care
The unit provides learners with the knowledge and understanding required to support individuals to manage continence. It covers the factors affecting continence, the management of continence, and the use of continence equipment

Unit 6: Principles of supporting sleep
This unit provides learners with the knowledge required to establish the conditions that are likely to be suitable for sleep, and how to support individuals to sleep

Entry Requirements

* You must be aged 19+
* You must live in England (not available to people living in Ireland, Scotland or Wales)
* You must have been an EU resident for at least 3 years
* No qualifications are necessary for you to start the course.
All learners are subject to an eligibility check before you can start the course. You may be required to forward information to us about your current employment or income/benefit status to allow you to get started.

How Is It Taught

As you work through the learning materials, you will have the support of a knowledgeable assessor/tutor who will give you support, advice and guidance on the course content as well as providing robust feedback on the work you complete. This course consists of 2 assessments to be completed 4 weeks apart. Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded the CACHE Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Care Planning.

What Could I do Next

After completing a distance learning qualification and receiving confirmation from your assessor that the course has been achieved, you are able to enrol on another distance learning qualification.

What Else Do I Need To Know

The assessments are divided into units and submission of answers is per unit. Support is available from your assessor throughout the course and after the completion of each unit when the assessor will assess the answers provided and provide written feedback.