TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Services (RQF)

TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Services (RQF)

This Course at a Glance

• Become a qualified Healthcare Support Worker
• Learn how to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion in healthcare settings
• Understand how to carry out risk assessments to minimise health and safety hazards
• Be able to safeguard and protect adults in healthcare
• Study online
• No exams

About Your Diploma

If you’re looking for a rewarding career where your focus revolves around protecting and enhancing the lives of others, you need to look no further than the Healthcare Support Worker role.

On completing this online Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Services, you will be ready to work in all manner of healthcare settings and provide ongoing support to individuals who require care and assistance with different personal and daily needs.

Understand The Challenges Within Healthcare Settings

This career starter course walks you through a host of challenges you will likely face in your career as a Healthcare Support Worker. From overcoming barriers to communication to implementing risk assessments and security measures, plus the PPE required for a safe and sterile working environment, you will be well versed on what it takes to keep those in your care safe from harm.

Learn To Provide For Those With Specific Needs

As each individual you work with within a healthcare setting will have their own unique range of needs, the course also explores a wide range of conditions and personal challenges a person can face, so you can provide the best support possible. You’ll learn how to discourage aggressive and abusive behaviour, recognise the value of a person-centred approach to dementia and understand the impact of mental ill health on individuals and others in their social network.

Getting Started

learndirect is the leading UK distance learning provider, with a vast portfolio of online courses that help aspiring professionals achieve their career ambitions.

This online Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Services is accredited by Training Qualifications UK (TQUK) and regulated by Ofqual. So, you can be assured of the quality education you’re getting ahead of your career.

Comfortable Career Transition

Your journey into a professional healthcare support worker role starts the minute you enrol. This is thanks to all the learning materials being immediately available through our innovative online learning platform. To help make the switch to your ideal job easier, our online course has no classes or timetables, so you can easily study to get the skills and knowledge you need for your new job around your existing employment.

Modules

Unit 1: Information & Guidance for Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Work 

Unit 2: Promote personal development in care settings 

Unit 3: Protection and safeguarding in care settings 

Unit 4: Promote health, safety, and wellbeing in care settings 

Unit 5: Understanding Mental Ill Health 

Unit 6: Understand effective communication in care settings 

Unit 7: Responsibilities of a Senior Healthcare Support Worker 

Unit 8: Promoting effective handling of information in care settings 

Unit 9: Maintain Infection prevention and control in a care setting 

Unit 10: Cleaning, decontamination, and waste management 

Unit 11: Understand duty of care in care settings 

Unit 12: Promoting equality and inclusion in care settings 

Unit 13: Person-centred practice, choice, and independence 

Unit 14: Study skills support for Senior Healthcare Workers 

Unit 15: Communicate with individuals about health promotion and wellbeing 

Unit 16: Maintain quality standards in the health sector 

Unit 17: Service improvement within the health sector 

Unit 18: Providing support to manage pain and discomfort 

Unit 19: Assist in monitoring the health of individuals affected by health conditions 

Unit 20: Undertake physiological measurements in care settings 

Unit 21: Administer medication to individuals and monitor the effects 

Unit 22: Supporting positive behaviour 

Unit 23: Support positive risk taking for individuals 

Unit 24: Select and wear appropriate personal protective equipment for work in healthcare 

Unit 25: Principles of health promotion 

Unit 26: Contribute to the effectiveness of teams 

Entry Requirements

While there aren’t any specific entry requirements, you should have at least a Level 2 qualification in literacy and numeracy, or equivalent, to complete this course.

Learners must be working in a Healthcare environment (whether that is employed, or they are on a temporary placement), and they must have a supervisor or manager who can verify their work when necessary (as per the criteria). Please note: The term verify does not mean the same as 'signing work off' - it is someone who can confirm that the learner did what they are saying they did. Our assessor will make the judgement as to whether the work submitted meets the criteria.

This course is also designed for learners aged 16 and above.

The learner must be working, volunteering or on practical placement in an appropriate setting to be able to meet the assessment requirements of this qualification. The placement must be in place for the full length of the qualification, not ending until the qualification is achieved.

The Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support is a competence-based qualification (CBQ). 

This course is designed to test your knowledge through a range of end-of-unit assignments. You will submit these to your tutor for feedback, which will help you learn and progress. There are no exams. Observation will be needed in the workplace by an assessor. 

A CBQ may be based on national occupational standards (NOS) and is a job-ready qualification that requires learners to demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to work in a specific industry. A CBQ must be assessed in the workplace in accordance with the relevant assessment strategy.

TQUK

On successful completion of this course, you will receive the TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Services (RQF), qualification number: 610/2249/4.

Established in 2013, Training Qualifications UK are one of the most forward-thinking and agile Awarding Organisations in the UK. They work closely with both employers and providers to ensure learners receive qualifications that have impact in the workplace and help learners succeed in all walks of life.

With this Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support Services to your name, you’ll be able to work as a professional Care Worker in a range of care facilities.

You could become a:

• Children and Young People’s Support Worker
• Enablement Worker
• Healthcare Assistant
• Maternity Support Worker
• Mental Health Support Worker
• Rehabilitation Assistant
• Senior Healthcare Support Worker
• Therapy Support Worker

Further Qualifications and Prospects 

Should you wish to progress your career from this point, you could study any number of qualifications in specialist health pathways, or begin a Level 5 apprenticeship within the healthcare sector.

Another avenue for progression would be studying for a healthcare-related degree at university. Our range of healthcare-related Access to Higher Education Diplomas is the perfect starting point towards degree-level study, as they go in place of A-Levels.

You can explore these on our website.