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Healthcare professionals practice patient care skills in a hospital setting, illustrating the ProQual Level 3 Award in Healthcare and Social Care Support Skills.

ProQual Level 3 Award in Healthcare and Social Care Support Skills

This qualification provides essential healthcare and social care knowledge and skills for support workers in hospitals, care homes, and community settings.

  • Course Features
  • About This Course
  • What You'll Learn
  • Who Should Attend
  • Entry Requirements
  • Curriculum
  • Assessments
  • Progression

Course Features

This 6-credit award offers flexible unit selection from a comprehensive range of healthcare and social care topics.

  • Flexible unit selection from Level 2, 3, and 4 options

  • Internally assessed portfolio-based qualification

  • No formal entry requirements

  • RQF Level 3 accredited by Ofqual

  • Suitable for care home, hospital, and community settings

  • Progression pathway to Certificate and Diploma qualifications

About This Course

The ProQual Level 3 Award in Healthcare and Social Care Support Skills is a flexible, competence-based qualification designed for individuals working in healthcare and social care environments. Regulated by Ofqual and approved by the Welsh Government and CCEA, this award validates practical skills and knowledge across a changing range of healthcare tasks where workers may not require a full diploma but need to demonstrate competence in specific areas.

  • Ofqual-regulated RQF Level 3 qualification

  • Portfolio-based assessment tailored to workplace activities

  • Suitable for workers performing specialized healthcare tasks

  • Approved for use in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland

  • Internal assessment and verification by approved centers

  • External quality assurance by ProQual verifiers

What You'll Learn

Learners select units totaling 6 credits from comprehensive options covering fundamental healthcare support competencies and specialized clinical skills.

  • Apply person-centered approaches and promote individual dignity and rights

  • Implement infection prevention and control standard precautions

  • Demonstrate safe medication administration assistance procedures

  • Perform personal care and hygiene support for individuals

  • Apply safeguarding principles and respond appropriately to concerns

  • Communicate effectively with individuals, families, and healthcare teams

Who Should Attend

This qualification is designed for individuals working in healthcare and social care settings who need to demonstrate competence in specific support tasks.

  • Healthcare assistants in hospitals and acute care environments

  • Support workers in residential care homes and nursing homes

  • Community care workers providing domiciliary services

  • Personal care assistants in supported living settings

  • Perioperative support staff in surgical environments

  • Pharmacy assistants working in healthcare settings

Entry Requirements

There are no formal entry requirements, though centers should assess candidate readiness and identify any learning gaps.

  • Minimum age of 18 years at course commencement

  • Good command of English language (written and spoken)

Curriculum

  1. Implement person centered approaches in health and social care
  2. Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care
  3. Handle information in health and social care settings
  4. The role of the health and social care worker
  5. Promote person centred approaches in health and social care

  1. Introduction to communication in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
  2. Promote communication in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
  3. Introduction to personal development in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
  4. Engage in personal development in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
  5. Support Individuals with Specific Communication Needs

  1. Introduction to duty of care in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
  2. Principles for implementing duty of care in health, social care or children's and young people's settings
  3. Promote and implement health and safety in health and social care
  4. Contribute to health and safety in health and social care
  5. Ensure your own Actions Reduce risks to Health and Safety

  1. Causes and Spread of Infection
  2. The principles of Infection Prevention and Control
  3. Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management
  4. Select and wear appropriate personal protective equipment for work in health care settings
  5. Minimise the risk of infection when transporting and storing healthcare waste

  1. Support individuals to meet personal care needs
  2. Carry out personal hygiene for individuals unable to care for themselves
  3. Support individuals to eat and drink
  4. Move and position individuals in accordance with their plan of care
  5. Support individuals to manage continence

  1. Assist in the administration of medication
  2. Obtain and test specimens from individuals
  3. Undertake physiological measurements
  4. Obtain venous blood samples
  5. Obtain and test capillary blood samples

  1. Prepare individuals for healthcare activities
  2. Assist the practitioner to carry out health care activities
  3. Support individuals undergoing healthcare activities
  4. Support individuals to carry out their own health care procedures
  5. Provide support for therapy sessions

  1. Perform the non-scrubbed circulating role for perioperative procedures
  2. Prepare and dress for scrubbed clinical roles
  3. Contribute to the safe use of medical devices in the perioperative environment
  4. Monitor and maintain the environment and resources during and after clinical / therapeutic activities
  5. Prepare and provide surgical instrumentation and supplementary items for the surgical team

  1. Care for individuals with naso-gastric tubes
  2. Prepare for and carry out extended feeding techniques
  3. Provide information and advice to individuals on eating to maintain optimum nutritional status
  4. Monitor individuals' progress in relation to managing their body weight and nutrition
  5. Support individuals to manage dysphagia

  1. Provide support for mobility
  2. Assist in the implementation of programmes to increase mobility, movement and functional independence
  3. Assist in testing individuals' abilities prior to planning physical activities
  4. Support individuals in undertaking their chosen activities
  5. Deliver exercise sessions to improve individuals' health and wellbeing

  1. Support individuals at the end of life
  2. Support individuals who are bereaved
  3. Understand loss and grief in end of life care
  4. Understand how to work in end of life care
  5. Support individuals who are distressed

  1. Dementia Awareness
  2. Understand the process and experience of dementia
  3. Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities
  4. Support individuals with a learning disability to access healthcare
  5. Support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions

  1. Contribute to the discharge of individuals to carers
  2. Inform an individual of discharge arrangements
  3. Support individuals during a period of change
  4. Support individuals to prepare for and settle in to new home environments
  5. Support young people with a disability to make the transition into adulthood

  1. Assist in the issuing of prescribed items
  2. Order Routine Pharmaceutical Stock
  3. Maintain pharmaceutical stock
  4. Assist with the provision of a pharmacy service to meet individuals' needs
  5. Receive pharmaceutical stock

  1. Work with babies and young children to promote their development and learning
  2. Care for the physical and nutritional needs of babies and young children
  3. Paediatric Emergency First Aid
  4. Support children and young people's health and safety
  5. Develop positive relationships with children and young people

  1. Undertake treatments and dressings of lesions and wounds
  2. Undertake tissue viability risk assessments
  3. Undertake agreed pressure area care
  4. Remove wound closure materials
  5. Carry out wound drainage care

  1. Perform routine Electrocardiograph ECG Procedures
  2. Undertake urethral catheterisation processes
  3. Perform intravenous cannulation
  4. Care for individuals with urethral catheters
  5. Carry out intravenous infusions

  1. Prepare, load and operate decontamination equipment
  2. Prepare reusable medical devices for sterilisation
  3. Carry out sterilisation and product release of reusable medical devises
  4. Understand how to monitor the decontaminations process
  5. Reprocess endoscopy equipment

  1. Understand mental well-being and mental health promotion
  2. Understand mental health problems
  3. Support individuals to develop and run support groups
  4. Enable individuals with behavioural difficulties to develop strategies to change their behaviour
  5. Communication and relationships to promote the wellbeing and mental health of older people

  1. Understand Models of Disability
  2. Understand Physical Disability
  3. Understand Sensory Loss
  4. Promote effective communication with individuals with sensory loss
  5. Introductory awareness of sensory loss

  1. Paediatric Emergency First Aid
  2. Emergency First Aid Skills
  3. Stroke awareness
  4. Understand stroke care management
  5. Diabetes awareness

  1. Contribute to the effectiveness of teams
  2. Contribute to effective multidisciplinary team working
  3. Service improvement in the health sector
  4. Maintaining quality standards in the health sector
  5. Work in partnership with families to support individuals

Assessments

Assessment is through demonstration of competence in workplace activities, measured against unit learning outcomes and assessment criteria.

  • Portfolio of workplace evidence

  • Assignments and worksheets

  • Records of oral and written questioning

  • Internal assessment and verification by center staff

Progression

Upon completion, learners can progress to higher qualifications or advance into more senior healthcare roles.

  • ProQual Level 3 Certificate in Healthcare and Social Care Support Skills

  • ProQual Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare and Social Care Support Skills

  • ProQual Level 4 Certificate in Advanced Healthcare and Social Care Support Skills

  • Employment as senior healthcare assistant or team leader roles

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