Extended Diploma in Management for Health and Social Care

Learners must complete four mandatory units totalling 65 credits and at least four optional (opt) units, totalling a minimum of 55 credits. The number of units to be completed will depend upon the size of the units selected.

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• Unit 1 Facilitating Change in Health and Social Care

Unit Aims: This unit aims to develop learners’ knowledge and applied skills to be able to facilitate change in health and social care setting. Learners will gain knowledge and show applied skills regarding principles of change management and factors that drive change in health and social care.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 2 Managing Communication

Unit Aims: This unit aims to develop knowledge and understanding of how communication takes place within and between organisations, the potential pitfalls and the benefits of good practice.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 3 People Management

Unit Aims: In this unit learners develop the knowledge and understanding of what motivates individuals and teams and be able to use this to review people management strategies used in organisations.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 4 Research Project

Unit Aims: To formulate a research specification on a chosen topic, implement the research project, evaluate and present the research findings.

Credits: 20

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 5 Leading Practice in Health and Social Care

Unit Aims: To be an effective in leadership in health and social care requires a need to supervise and manage provision and lead and support others through workforce provision. This unit will develop student’s skills and knowledge in the role of a Manager and leader in developing strategies to provide quality provision in health and social care.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 6 Working with Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge to be able to work within multidisciplinary teams within a health and social care setting. This will enable learners to understand how to build and lead multidisciplinary teams, as well as understand how to communicate and overcome any barriers within a team and also with stakeholders within a health and social care setting.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Opt

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• Unit 7 Management of Safeguarding for Health and Social Care

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills to be able to manage safeguarding for health and social care within a health and social care setting. Learners will gain understanding of issues relating to safeguarding in health and social care, the impact legislation has on this, and how to support the implementation and promotion of policies and procedures in regard to safeguarding in a way that supports service users in a health and social care setting. Learners will also be able to apply skills to review and develop safeguarding policies for a specific health and social care context, within a health and social care setting.

Credits: 10

Mandatory: Opt

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• Unit 8 Corporate Social Responsibility

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills around corporate social responsibility within a health and social care setting. Learners will understand current corporate social responsibility issues and the impact of these for a business and stakeholders. Learners will be able to demonstrate the skills within a health and social care setting.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 9 Resource Management

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills around resource management within a health and social care setting. Learners will understand key features, the importance and ability to maximise the effectiveness of different types of resource management, including physical and human resources. Learners will be able to demonstrate the skills needed to review the use of resources within a health and social carer environment.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 10 Management of Activity Provision

Unit Aims: The unit develops student’s knowledge of activity provision in health or social care and how it is managed. In many healthcare or social care situations, the evidence of positive physical and psychological benefits of activity provision to service users has been demonstrated.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 11 Planning a New Business Venture

Unit Aims: The aim of the unit is to develop business planning skills. These skills can be applied to either a small micro enterprise or a new venture within an existing company.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 12 Managing Stakeholder Engagement

Unit Aims: The aim of the unit is to enable the learner to develop the knowledge and understanding required to engage with stakeholders and to learn how to manage stakeholders in projects and organisations.

Credits: 10

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 13 Leading Organisational Equality and Diversity

Unit Aims: he aim of this unit is to enable the learner to develop an understanding of the importance of managing equality and diversity within the organisation and to understand how to lead the approach to equality and diversity within an organisation

Credits: 10

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 14 Manage Sustainability in an Organisation

Unit Aims: To develop the knowledge, skills and techniques to be able to identify sustainability issues within an organisation and to put in place suitable management systems for legal compliance and corporate responsibility purposes.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 15 Managing Quality in Health and Social Care

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills around managing quality within a health and social care setting. Learners will learn about and understand differing perspectives of quality and strategies for achieving quality relating to health and social cares services, as well as understanding methodologies for evaluating health and social cares services. Learners will be able to demonstrate the skills needed to evaluate systems, policies and procedures within a health and social care services environment.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 16 Empowering Users of Health and Social Care Services

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills around empowering users of health and social care services. Learners will learn about and understand the design and review of services, being able to promote and maximise the rights of users and the participation of independence of users regarding health and social care services. Learners will understand responsibility of managing and monitoring risks and promoting good practice in the administration of medication being essential in health and social care services.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 17 Health and Safety in the Health and Social Care Workplace

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills around health and safety within a health and social care setting. Learners will learn about and understand the implementation of legislation, the impact of health and safety requirements on customers and work practitioners and how to monitor ad review health and safety within a health and social care environment.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 18 Employability Skills

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills around employability skills within a health and social care setting. Learners will learn about and understand the dynamics of working with others. Learners will be able to demonstrate the skills needed to determine own responsibilities and performance, development of interpersonal and transferable skills and strategies for problem solving.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes

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• Unit 19 Personal and Professional Development

Unit Aims: This unit aims to give learners the knowledge and applied skills for personal and professional development within a health and social care setting. Learners will learn about and understand how self-managed learning enhance lifelong development, Learners will be able to demonstrate the skills needed to take responsibility for own personal and professional development, implement and review a personal and professional development plan and demonstrate the acquired interpersonal and transferable skills gained.

Credits: 15

Mandatory: Yes