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SVQ: Care Services Leadership and Management

This SVQ has been developed to meet the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) registration requirements for care managers. It provides a comprehensive, certificated qualification that equips individuals with a broad range of knowledge, skills, and values, enabling them to address the leadership and management challenges currently faced by care services.

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Level:

SCQF Level 10

Study Mode:

  • Assessment of work based learning Yr1
  • Assessment of work based learning Yr2
  • Assessment of work based learning Yr3

Location:

  • Dunfermline
  • Kirkcaldy

Start Date:

Duration:

  • Start at any time, must be completed within 12 months
  • Work-based Learning: where no on-campus attendance is required and your course is fully assessed in your workplace

What skills will I learn?

The qualification covers areas such as managing and developing yourself and your workforce within care services, leading and managing practice that promotes the safeguarding of individuals, health and safety in the work setting, and effective communication systems and practice.

What will I study?

  • Managing and developing yourself and your workforce within care services,
  • Leading and managing practice that promotes the safeguarding of individuals,
  • Health and safety in the work setting,
  • Effective communication systems and practice.

Plus 4 optional units related to candidates' job roles and responsibilities within the work setting.

Application Information

What career opportunities are there?

There is some overlap of Units between the different levels of SVQ, allow candidates to progress to other management SVQs as their job role develops of changes.