Challenging Behaviour (Elderly)

The Challenging Behaviour (Elderly) course will help staff to improve the lives of people who display challenging behaviour as it is concerned with how staff can support service users to replace the behaviours with positive actions.

This course will help staff to improve the lives of people who display challenging behaviour as it is concerned with how staff can support service users to replace the behaviours with positive actions. The Challenging Behaviour (Elderly) course supports care workers by identifying what they can and cannot do, gives advice as to how they can remain safe, keep service users safe and act within organisational, local and national procedures.

QLS Certificate of Achievement

Hard copy certificate - Included

This course will appeal to staff from a variety of social care settings. Staff will be supporting adults who display behaviours considered to challenge, in settings ranging from residential care, respite care, day services, educational provision and the voluntary sector.

The programme is at QLS Level 2, the equivalent of GCSE or ‘O’ Level. This programme is divided into 10 modules, each covering a different aspect of the challenging behaviour in the elderly.

There is an activities booklet containing the activities a learner will need to successfully pass the course. These are marked by a tutor, who will give the student written feedback on assessments along with support and guidance.
Each module of the Challenging Behaviour (Elderly) programme begins with an introduction and states the learning outcomes for the module.

Learning outcomes are statements explaining what the student will understand or be able to do by the time they have finished studying each module. The assessment questions are closely linked to the learning outcomes.

Students can check whether they have met each learning outcome by successfully completing the associated assessment questions.

Assessment

The Certificate of Achievement from Quality Licence Scheme is gained by successfully completing a series of assignments. Your personal tutor will review, mark and provide you with feedback on your work.

Certification

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that NCC Home Learning has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at QLS Level 2 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group’s knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales

Course modules

Module 1: Understanding challenging behaviour

Module 2: Improving quality of life for people with challenging behaviour

Module 3: Causes of challenging behaviour

Module 4: Minimising effects of challenging behaviour

Module 5: Working in services for those considered to challenge

Module 6: Dignity

Module 7: Legislation

Module 8: Physical intervention: Moral, legal and ethical issues

Module 9: Supporting positive behaviour in people with learning difficulties

Module 10: Supporting positive behaviour in people with dementia

Learner support

Constructed specifically for distance learning, course materials can be accessed through the letter box allowing students to learn at their own stride whether it’s at home or away – night or day.

Furthermore, learners can benefit from their own expert tutor as well as a comprehensive guide summarising the learning resources, units, tasks and course expectations.

Students can be rest assured that all of their questions, course related or not will be answered with all the necessary feedback, advice and guidance.

This course supports care workers by identifying what they can and cannot do, gives advice as to how they can remain safe, keep service users safe and act within organisational, local and national procedures. This course will appeal to staff from a variety of social care settings. Staff will be supporting adults who display behaviours considered to challenge, in settings ranging from residential care, respite care, day services, educational provision and the voluntary sector.

The good news is that no prior learning knowledge or experience is essential to enrol on this course. The programme is openly available to anyone wishing to learn more about Challenging Behaviour (Elderly) and would like to take part in a highly rewarding home study course. Students have the freedom to start the course at any time and continue learning at their own pace for a period of up to 12 months from initial registration with full tutor support.