Diploma Programme in Older-Person Clinical Care Support

الموضوعات والوحدات الرئيسية

• Ageing-related needs
• Mobility support
• Nutrition monitoring
• Skin observation
• Communication adjustments
• Deterioration reporting
• Delegation and clinical role boundaries
• Consent and person-centred communication
• Infection prevention and clean working
• Confidential clinical documentation
• Deterioration recognition and escalation
• Patient identification and handover
• Applied project: an older-person support care portfolio
• Observed assessment, evidence review and individual feedback

الفئة المستهدفة

• Older-person care assistants

القطاعات ذات الصلة

Hospitals, Long-term care, Older-person healthcare

القيمة في مكان العمل

• Help reduce unreported changes in patient condition through consistent working methods and verification.
• Create an older-person support care portfolio for supervisor review and practical workplace follow-up.
• Support more consistent deterioration reporting through assessed practice and documented feedback.

اعتبارات التقييم والالتحاق

التقييم: Observed role-specific tasks in an authorised workplace or approved simulation, knowledge checks and review of an older-person support care portfolio. Actual workplace evidence is required where the eventual award or role specifies it.

الالتحاق والاعتراف: Initial literacy, numeracy and role-suitability assessment; access to approved clinical supervision and placement. Existing registration or delegated authority is required for restricted procedures and professional development routes.

حدود الممارسة: Clinical procedures require an appropriately authorised learner, an approved clinical setting, qualified supervision and employer competency sign-off. This support/development programme does not qualify a registered nurse or confer independent clinical practice rights.

حالة الاعتماد: Proposed BEMCON programme only. No registered award, framework level, credit value or external certification is assigned.