Units

• Academic Study Skills
• Communicating in Health and Social Care
• An Introduction to Healthcare Policy
• Reflective Practice
• Managing People in Health and Social Care
• Sociology Concepts in Health and Ill Health
• Principles Underpinning Health and Social Care
• The Management of Quality in Health and Social Care
• Research Project
• Partnership working in Health and Social Care
• Working with Service users with Complex Needs

About QUALIFI

QUALIFI is recognised and regulated by Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulator). Ofqual regulates qualifications, examinations, and assessments in England. As an Ofqual recognised Awarding Organisation, QUALIFI is required to carry out external quality assurance to ensure that centres approved for the delivery and assessment of QUALIFI’s qualifications meet the required standards.

Aims of the QUALIFI Level 5 Extended Diploma in Health & Social Care :

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.

The QUALIFI Level 5 Extended Diploma in Health & Social Care aims to give learners the opportunity to :

Learners studying for the Diplomas 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.