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The Health and Social Care level 2 and 3 diplomas on the new qualifications and credit framework are now available. These qualifications replace the Health and Social Care (HSC) NVQs level 2 and 3.
The diplomas are made up of nine mandatory units and a range of optional units. The mandatory units are very closely aligned to the learning covered by new workers in the Common Induction Standards (CIS) and the aim is for learners from any part of the sector to complete these standards and contextualise their learning to their service/job role.
There are options to take a generic HSC Diploma or a specialist dementia or learning disability pathway which allows learners to further tailor their learning to their job role.
Health and Social Care (HSC) diploma level 2
Level 2 diploma in Health and Social Care qualification structure
For the rules of combination for this qualification please click on the link below:
HSC level 2 diploma rules of combination
Below are links to the units that will be available:
Level 2 diploma in Health and Social Care (adults) for England
Health and Social Care (HSC) diploma level 3
Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care qualification structure
For the rules of combination for this qualification please click on the link below:
HSC level 3 diploma rules of combination
Below are links to the units that will be available:
Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care (adults) for England
Instructions to download:
1. Click the link above to download the zip file to your computer
2. Extract the files from the zip file to your PC - in Windows XP you can extract the files by right-clicking the relevant zip file and choosing "Extract All...", then follow the wizard
3. Open the PDFs from the location you saved them to
(Please note: within the zip files the unit file names relate to the unit reference numbers. Full unit titles can be viewed on the rules of combination documents which can be downloaded below.)
For a list of the Awarding Organisations offering the new qualifications, please click here.
Leadership and Management
The Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care in Children and Young People's Services replaces and combines the level 4 NVQ Leadership and Management in Care Services and level 4 NVQ Health and Social Care qualifications to offer a hybrid qualification. This is available from April 2011.
Click on the link below for more infromation:
leadership for health and social care
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services
The Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People's Services replaces and combines the level 4 NVQ Leadership and Management in Care Services and level 4 NVQ Health and Social Care qualifications to offer a hybrid qualification.
The new combined qualification will have the same mandatory units across what used to be two separate qualifications. There is the option of six pathways offering individuals the opportunity to tailor the qualification to their job role:
- Management of Adult Services
- Management of Adult Residential Services
- Practice in Adult Services
- Management of Children and Young People's Services
- Management of Children and Young People's Residential Services
- Practice in Children and Young People's Services
There will be opportunities for progression from the HSC Senior Practitioner to a Management role ensuring no duplication. This qualification is shared between the adults and children's sectors in England.
Below is a link to the units that will be available:
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in HSC & CYP units
Rules of combination - Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in HSC & CYP
Instructions to download
1. Click the link above to download the zip file to your computer
2. Extract the files from the zip file to your PC - in Windows XP you can extract the files by right-clicking the relevant zip file and choosing "Extract All...", then follow the wizard
3. Open the PDFs from the location you saved them to
(Please note: within the zip files the unit file names relate to the unit reference numbers. Full unit titles can be viewed on the rules of combination documents which can be downloaded below.)
For further information about local delivery, please contact the awarding bodies working on this qualification;
Cache, City & Guilds, CMI, Edexcel, EDI, NCFE and OCR.
Supporting Material
We have created a number of different materials to explain more about the new qualifications - please click on the links below for the one most relevant to you:
Benefits of qualfications (pdf) March 2011
Val, John and the QCF - take 2 (short film)
new qualifications for the adult social care sector leaflet - July 2010
new learning disability qualifications for 2011
QCF presentation - April 2011
QCF presentation - the basics
New qualification options - possible scenarios
The purpose of the documents below are to provide case study scenarios to demonstrate how learners may tailor their learning to their job role on the new qualifications and credit framework (QCF). We aim to support learners to make informed choices about the options available to them on the new framework.
Please click on the link below to view specific learning disability scenarios:
learning disability supporting materials
Skills for Care and Development Assessor Qualifications Statement
Skills for Care and Development, Awarding Organisations and Skills for Health have agreed a set of assessment principles. In this there was a commitment (point 4.3) to provide a list of qualifications that assessors must hold in order to be deemed qualified to make assessment decisions. We do not believe one list of qualifications will cover all eventualities and qualifications in the footprint.
The Sector Skills Council expects Awarding Organisations to exercise appropriate judgement in identifying individuals who are appropriately qualified to make assessment decisions. To assess competence based Learning Organisations these individuals must:
- Be occupationally competent in the area they are assessing and
- Be competent in assessment.
To assess knowledge based Learning Organisations these individuals must:
- Be occupationally knowledgeable or occupationally competent.
- Be competent in assessment.
This approach will be evaluated by looking at outcomes in partnership with Awarding Organisations in the quality forum, and reviewed if necessary.
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