BATHE Level 2 Diploma in Care

The aim of the Level 2 Diploma in Care is to confirm occupational competence for Adult Care Workers or Healthcare Support Workers. This qualification is vocationally based and as such, offers the opportunity for learners to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and practical skills required to be an Adult Care Worker in an adult care setting or a Healthcare Assistant; Support Worker or Personal Assistant in a healthcare support environment.

• Communication in Care Settings
• Duty of Care
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Care Settings
• Handle Information in Care Settings
• Health, Safety and Well-Being in Care Settings
• Implement Person-Centred Approaches
• Personal Development in a Care Setting
• Responsibilities of a Care Worker
• Safeguarding and Protection in Care Settings Promote Positive Behaviour Support

• Provide career path support to learners who wish to develop their management skills, enterprise capabilities and opportunities in their chosen sector.
• Improve learner understanding of any given business environments and organisations and how they are managed and developed.
• Develop skills and abilities in learners to support their professional development.
• Apply analytical and evaluative techniques and to enhance those skills.
• Develop their awareness and appreciation of managerial, organisational and environmental issues.
• Use management techniques and practices in imaginative ways.
• Make use of relevant information from different sources.

• The qualification has been designed to be accessible without artificial barriers that restrict access and progression. Entry to the qualifications will be through centre interview and learners must be in a position to demonstrate the requirements of the qualification and have access to required assessment opportunities and relevant resources.
• Centres should undertake initial assessment activities with learners to ensure this is an appropriate qualification and they are capable of achieving the level they will be studying at before enrolling them onto a programme of learning.

The qualification is designed to be delivered over one academic year for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning.

The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance, online by approved centres only.

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the centre and externally verified by BATHE. The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria. Judgement that the learners have successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the Assessor.

The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the learners’ overall achievement has been arrived at.