Level 2 or 3 Award in Awareness of Dementia or Certificates in Dementia Care

Who is this qualification for?

The qualification in awareness of dementia and dementia care are aimed at occupational areas across all service groups and ages, working in statutory (including NHS), private, voluntary and independent sectors. This includes healthcare/are assistants, support/key workers, family support workers, personal assistants, team leaders, care managers, first line supervisors.

Qualification Aims:

To support employees in the development of their knowledge, skills and understanding of people who have dementia

Learning Outcomes:

Awards in Awareness of Dementia
A basic knowledge of dementia care
Person centred approach and understanding of equality
Advanced knowledge of dementia care (level 3)
Communication
Administration of medication (level 3) / Certificates in Dementia Care
Knowledge of dementia care
Communication
Person centred approach
Support risk taking
Optional units of your choice

Dates:

Various dates offered for this course, and a rolling admission for the certificate qualifications.

Credit value: L2 Award: 8, L2 Certificate: 18, L3 Award: 11, L3 Certificate: 21

Delivery:

These are evidence based qualifications, with the awards being knowledge only and the certificate’s requiring knowledge and performance evidence to be provided.

For the awards we do provide a programme of learning sessions and it is expected all learners undertaking the qualification will attend all sessions.

All learners are allocated a vocational assessor who will provide one to one support to enable them to achieve the qualification and a web–based electronic portfolio called OneFile is used to support learners to build their portfolio and training to use this will be given as part of the induction.

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Employers may be eligible to claim Workforce Development Funding – for further information, please contact