Welcome to this online learning course on leading and managing in adult social care
The responsibilities of leaders and managers in adult social care can not be underestimated. You need a range of skills, knowledge and qualities to be successful, and you need the ability to draw off these at different times in different situations.
You also need to keep an eye on what is happening locally and nationally that will affect your service, and be able to respond, adapt and evolve.
In this course, you’ll start to explore some of those abilities and plan your next steps to leading and managing good and outstanding adult social care services.
The course is aligned to Standard 1 of the Manager Induction Standards and will cover the following 4 topics:
- Leadership and management
- Leading a vision
- The adult social care marketplace
- Integrated approach to care.
100% of the cost of these modules can be reimbursed via the Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS).
When you’ve completed this 60 minute online course you will be able to:
- Explain what it means to ‘lead’ and ‘manage’ in adult social care
- Explain the importance of developing, sharing and implementing a vision for your service
- Describe how your services fits within your local adult social care marketplace, and how your service might need to develop
- Describe what integration between health and social care means locally
