Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care

The Lead Practitioner in Adult Care will guide and inspire team members to make positive differences in someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological, or intellectual challenges. They will have achieved a level of self-development to be recognised as a lead practitioner within the care team, contributing to, promoting, and sustaining a values-based culture at an operational level.

A lead practitioner has a greater depth of knowledge and expertise of particular conditions being experienced by the user of services. They will have specialist skills and knowledge in their area of responsibility, which will allow them to lead in areas such as care needs assessment, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and enablement, telecare and assistive technology. They will be a coach and mentor to others and will have a role in assessing performance and quality of care delivery.

Lead practitioners in adult care may work in residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, day centres, a person’s own home, or some clinical healthcare settings. This standard also covers Lead Personal Assistants who can work at this senior level but they may only work directly for one individual who needs support and/or care services, usually within their own home.

The minimum duration for this apprenticeship standard is 18 months plus 3 months for EPA.

The completion of this apprenticeship standard will require monthly training visits from a qualified IPS trainer to help support the apprentice with developing skills and progress in the building of a portfolio of evidence to prepare the learner for the end-point assessment. The awarding organisation used to achieve this apprenticeship standard is City & Guilds.

Opportunities may also be available to progress to a Level 5 Leader in Adult Care apprenticeship standard.