The Level 4 Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Apprenticeship is directly accessed through your employer and will guide and inspire you to make positive differences to someone’s life when they are faced with physical, practical, social, emotional, psychological or intellectual challenges.

As a qualified Lead Practitioner, you will have a greater depth of knowledge and expertise of particular conditions being experienced by the user of services. You will also have specialist skills and knowledge in your area of responsibilities which will allow you to successfully lead in areas such as care needs assessment, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and enablement, telecare and assistive technology.

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. As well as covering Lead Practitioners in Adult Care 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.

Upon successful completion of this course, the qualification you will achieve is the NCFE CACHE Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care.