Course Summary
Course Category: Employment / Lifelong Learning
This essential healthcare program is designed to equip learners with the core knowledge, skills, and professional competence required to excel in a modern care environment. The curriculum focuses on the practicalities of working effectively within a care setting while emphasizing the ethical foundations of the profession. A key objective of the course is to promote best practice standards, fostering a deep respect for diversity in lifestyle, religion, and culture.
Certificate in QQI Level 5 Minor Award Certificate in Care Support (5N0758)
Course Details
This course prepares you for working in the following Career Sectors:
What will you study?
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Discuss the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of a care worker.
Examine the role of a care worker within the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Demonstrate the ability to plan and provide enhanced quality care.
Apply knowledge gained to plan and meet the needs of the individual client.
Explore the need for personal planning and growth.
Plan strategies to improve own personal development.
Reflect on personal effectiveness as a care worker to include own strengths and weaknesses.
Reflect on relationships with clients, relatives and multidisciplinary team members and interpersonal issues that arise in care work.
Important
- Colleges may add/remove modules to keep the course updated and to meet demands.
Progression to CAO Courses
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Social
The Social person's interests focus on interacting with the people in their environment. In all cases, the Social person enjoys the personal contact with other people in preference to the impersonal dealings with things, data and ideas found in other groups.
Many will seek out positions where there is direct contact with the public in some advisory role, whether a receptionist or a counsellor. Social people are motivated by an interest in different types of people and like diversity in their work environments. Many are drawn towards careers in the caring professions and social welfare area, whilst others prefer teaching and other 'informing' roles.
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Career Progression
It aligns your practice with current national healthcare standards and ethical guidelines, ensuring high levels of employability in both public and private care settings.