Training
Modern Skills Diploma (MSD)
Course info
Overview
The Modern Skills Diploma programme is aimed at employed individuals within a management role or with managerial responsibilities. There is currently no framework for the Health & Social Care, Childcare and Advice & Guidance qualifications. Learners are therefore encouraged to complete Key Skills and a Technical Certificate as part of the programme.
Routes
OCR Advice & Guidance Level 4
- who have managerial or training responsibilities
- who are creators of information, advice and guidance within the service/practice
- who are dynamic in their dealings with organisations.
A specialist endorsement is available to candidates taking this qualification if they achieve all four of the optional units from the Careers Education and Guidance specialist pathway.
Health & Social Care Level 4
The qualification is about the management and delivery of physical, emotional or enabling care to clients/service users. The candidate will be managing and delivering care in support of others, and will be accountable in the area of practice. The qualification covers managerial duties in addition to the assessment of individual care needs, and the planning and review of care programmes. At this level the worker has management or supervisory responsibility for other staff or a high level of independence in developing individual responses to the service users’ needs.
Candidates will be working without direct supervision or on their own, such as in a clients/service users own home. Candidates will have autonomy, and will be required to make decisions within boundaries and limits agreed with their team.
Candidates are required to complete eight units.
This NVQ will allow for progression to and from existing portfolio of Health and Social Care qualifications and will complement other vocational qualifications.
OCR - Generic Management
The Management level 4 qualification is aimed at individuals with more personal responsibility and autonomy in their management role than at level 3, who have the ability and the opportunity to demonstrate recognisable management and leadership skills, for example managing business processes, developing and implementing operational plans, leading, planning and implementing change, managing finance, providing learning opportunities. Individuals may find that the focus of their work is more to do with managing projects, or with technical matters, than with people.
To achieve the full award candidates must complete eight units, including five mandatory units and three optional units.
Like all NVQs this qualification is competence based. This means that it is linked to the candidate´s ability to competently perform a range of tasks connected with their work. Candidates plan a programme of development and assessment with their assessor and compile a portfolio of evidence to prove that they are competent and knowledgeable in their work role.
Registered Managers Award
- develop, maintain and evaluate systems and structures to the benefit of others
- manage a service within the care and social care sector
- manage financial resources, projects and activities
- manage the performance of teams and individuals
Children´s Care Learning & Development Level 4
This NVQ is for those working with children from 0-16 years ( and their families) in settings or services whose main purpose is children´s care learning and development.It is designed for all workers , whether full or part time , paid or voluntary , permanent or temporary in day or night posts , in fixed locations or peripatetic , who may work in a management role.
At level 4 learners need to demonstrate the ability to develop a rigorous approach to the acquisition of a broad knoledge base ; evaluate information using it to plan and develop investigative strategies and to determine solutions to a variety of unpredictable problems.
Level 4 qualificaitons recognise specialist learning and involve detailed analysis of a high level of informatio and knowledge in an area of work or study.
- A level 4 learner should build on the knowledge gained at levels 2 & 3. Knowledge at level 4 should include:
- An evaluation of key theories of child development
- An understanding of how practice and theory are linked - how theory and reasearch inform and influence practice
- An awareness that childrens development does not always progress according to expectations - practice should focus on the actual needs of the child appropriate to their stage of development , rather than on
- Expectations of their development according to their chronological age.
Qualification Structure
The level 4 qualification contains four mandatory units and a total of five optional units. In order to achieve the full NVQ at level 4 candidates must undertake all four manadatory units plus five optional units.