The VTCT Skills Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care is designed for experienced professionals who hold, or are developing within, management responsibilities in adult social care.

At Level 5, the focus moves beyond delivering care to leading people, managing services and improving organisational performance.

Learners explore leadership and management theory and learn how these principles apply within real adult care environments. The programme develops the ability to manage teams, supervise staff, allocate resources, make evidence-based decisions and ensure services operate safely and effectively.

A major area of the qualification is governance and regulatory compliance. Learners develop their understanding of legislation, statutory guidance, organisational governance, regulatory systems and inspection processes relevant to adult social care.

The qualification also places significant emphasis on person-centred leadership. Learners develop approaches that promote independence, choice, control, positive outcomes and appropriate positive risk-taking while ensuring appropriate safeguarding and risk-management systems remain in place.

You will also develop the skills needed to lead staff development, professional supervision, performance improvement and organisational learning.

Throughout the course, learners are expected to demonstrate their management and leadership competence through real workplace practice.

Qualification Number: 610/7099/3
Product Code: ACD5R
Level: Level 5
Age: 19+
Credits: 90
Total Qualification Time: 900 hours
Guided Learning: 443 hours
Assessment: Portfolio of Evidence & Workplace Skills Assessment
Course Category: Health & Social Care / Leadership & Management

Entry Requirements

There are no formal academic entry requirements specified by VTCT.

However, learners must have the potential and opportunity to generate appropriate evidence within a real workplace. Learners are also expected to have completed their employer-specific induction and mandatory training.

For enrolment, applicants should therefore normally:

• Be aged 19 or over.
• Be working within adult health or social care.
• Hold a management, leadership or appropriate supervisory role, or have sufficient responsibility to demonstrate the required competencies.
• Have access to staff, organisational systems and workplace activities required for assessment.
• Be able to produce authentic workplace evidence.
• Have sufficient written and spoken English to complete Level 5 study and professional assessment.

Important

This qualification is not suitable as a purely classroom-based management course because significant elements require learners to demonstrate leadership and management competence in their normal workplace.

This course is particularly suitable for:

• Registered Managers
• Deputy Managers
• Care Managers
• Service Managers
• Team Managers
• Adult Social Care Managers
• Senior Practitioners progressing into management
• Supported Living Managers
• Residential Care Managers
• Domiciliary Care Managers
• Community Care Managers
• Departmental or Operational Managers
• Experienced supervisors progressing into higher-level management
• Professionals responsible for teams, projects or care-service outcomes

VTCT specifically describes the qualification as suitable for learners already in an adult care management role who manage teams and/or projects and contribute to operational or departmental objectives. It may also be suitable for individuals who have sufficient opportunity to demonstrate recognised leadership and management competence.

A short public-facing version:

• Leadership and management in adult care
• Governance, regulation and inspection
• Evidence-based decision-making
• Business and resource management
• Team leadership and performance
• Staff learning and development
• Professional supervision
• Safeguarding and mental capacity
• Partnership and multi-agency working
• Managing complaints and feedback
• Person-centred leadership
• Health, wellbeing and positive outcomes
• Equality, diversity and human rights
• Health, safety and risk management
• Quality improvement and innovation
• Professional development and wellbeing