NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care

Adult social care is a booming industry, and it’s growing every year – by 2025, it’s estimated that 2.63 million workers will be needed to fill roles within this sector. If you’d love to become a champion of health and social care and take on a wonderfully fulfilling role helping those who need it most, this accredited course will get you there.

You’ll learn how to promote the health, safety, and wellbeing of the people you care for, as well as how to minimise pain and discomfort. You’ll examine important issues such as safeguarding and protection, and infection control and prevention. Above all, you’ll learn how to treat the people you look after with dignity, respect, and compassion. As you learn, you’ll gain practical experience with a placement in an adult care setting, giving you the fully rounded education you’ll need to practice with confidence.

This course is ideal for anyone wishing to work at a residential home, a day centre, domiciliary care, or within clinical healthcare. You’ll enjoy the freedom to study in your own time, at your own pace, with engaging learning materials.

On this Adult Care course, you will:

• Develop the knowledge needed to work in the healthcare sector
• Examine the fundamental topics and subjects in health and social care
• Gain practical work experience that’ll give you the advantage when you graduate
• Thrive under expert supervision through your assignments at your own pace
  If you’re a people person – and we know you are – you’ll feel right at home with this course!

This course is the most up-to-date version of CACHE’s Health and Social Care Level 3 qualification (NVQ/QCF/RQF).

Diploma in Adult Care Level 3

Hard copy certificate - Included

Study Method

Study completely online using our award-winning learning platform, MyOxbridge.

Course Duration

On average, students complete this course in 10 months, but we'll give you up to 12 months.

Assessment

How is this course assessed or examined?

This course is assessed in two ways:

Tutor-marked assignments (TMAs)
Each unit is followed by a tutor-marked assignment (TMA) which will be completed at the end of each module and marked by your tutor.

You will not be required to take an external exam with this course as your portfolio of evidence is internally assessed by us and externally quality assured by the awarding body. Your tutor will provide feedback on your work, and should there be any amendments required, they will outline what is needed for you to complete that assignment.

Observation (included)
This course requires up to four observations. This means that somebody will need to observe you in practice. This could be in a workplace or a voluntary placement. These practical observations will be carried out by an Oxbridge Assessor (we’ll visit you) and that's included in the course price.

We offer up to four complimentary external observations for this course to any student on the UK mainland, which is enough to complete the course.

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of the qualification, Learners will be awarded a formal certificate of achievement from NCFE CACHE.

Potential Employment Settings

After you’ve completed this course, you could apply for roles in a variety of settings, including:

Residential/nursing homes
Domiciliary care
Day centres
Clinical healthcare.

Progressing onto further study

There are also plenty of options should you want to move on to further study. The following courses are ideal progression routes in adult care:

Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services.

Alternatively, you may opt for qualifications in management, lead practitioner roles or a specialist course relating to your place of work.

Additional Information

• Official Qualification Title - NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care
• Difficulty - Level 3
• Entry requirements - In order to achieve this qualification, you must be working, volunteering or on practical placement as you will need to show competence in both knowledge and skills.
• Minimum Enrolment Age - 16 years
• Credits - 58

In order to achieve this qualification, you must be at least 16 years old and working, volunteering or on practical placement as you will need to show competence in both knowledge and skills.