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DEVELOP YOUR CARE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE
Level 5 Health and Social Care Leadership Diploma: Course Overview
Develop leadership for children and young people’s residential services through HHF’s selected Level 5 Health and Social Care Leadership Diploma route. This Focus Awards programme contains 17 units worth 90 credits and combines online learning, tutor guidance and assessed workplace evidence.
The Children and Young People’s Residential Management pathway suits practitioners, deputy managers and managers with relevant leadership responsibilities. Build your practice in staff supervision, group living, safeguarding, communication, risk management and support for children’s development and wellbeing. Your leadership evidence must come from a suitable setting and match the selected unit criteria.
When comparing Level 5 health and social care courses, check the pathway as well as the qualification title. This page describes the children and young people’s residential route. Learners managing an adult care service should compare HHF’s adult care management qualifications.
Agree observation, work records and suitable witness evidence with your employer and assessor. Written tasks cannot replace required practical evidence. Discuss your leadership role and study goals before enrolling.
Who Is This Course For?
This selected route suits practitioners, deputy managers and managers in children and young people’s residential services. You need suitable leadership duties and access to workplace evidence.
Choose a course that fits the duties you carry out and the evidence you can provide. HHF reviews your experience, study skills and support needs.
Discuss workplace access and your next step before paying. Employers may set extra requirements for a role.
What You Will Learn
Build knowledge and practical skills in these areas:
- Develop communication systems and professional skills.
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Develop health, safety and risk management approaches.
- Work with partners and carry out service-related research.
- Build leadership evidence for children and young people’s residential services.
- Lead group living, staff supervision and team practice.
- Support children and young people’s development, wellbeing and resilience.
- Develop safeguarding policies and respond to concerns and complaints.
Use relevant examples to explain your decisions. Match evidence to the unit criteria and use feedback to fill gaps.
Entry and Practical Access Requirements
You should be aged 19 or over. You need the reading, writing and communication skills to study and complete assessments at this level.
You also need a suitable care workplace and duties that let you show the practical skills required. Agree observation, work records and suitable witness evidence with your employer and assessor.
Written work alone cannot replace practical evidence. You need internet access, a suitable device and the ID requested for registration. Tell HHF about learning or access needs early.
Assessment and Evidence Requirements
Build a portfolio of your knowledge and practice. Evidence may include observation, discussion, suitable witness accounts, work records, written tasks and questions. Your assessor chooses methods that fit your role and the criteria.
Agree a plan for each unit at induction. Organise evidence by the criteria it meets and use feedback to fill gaps. Your evidence must show your own work.
Keep workplace information private. Remove personal details where needed and use approved HHF channels to submit evidence. Certification follows successful assessment and quality checks.
Online Learning, Duration and Tutor Support
Use online resources, tutor guidance and assessment support to prepare your evidence.
The qualification has 900 hours of Total Qualification Time. This measures learning time, not a fixed course duration. Your pace depends on prior learning, study time and evidence progress.
Agree your timetable and course access period before enrolling. Ask your tutor for study help. Your assessor explains what the evidence shows and any further work needed.
Read HHF learner FAQs or contact HHF about study arrangements.
Fees and Enrolment
See the course fee card for the current price. Contact HHF about instalments, registration, certification, assessment arrangements and any extra costs.
Before paying, check your eligibility and evidence access. After enrolment, complete induction and agree your assessment plan.
Read the enrolment and refund terms before accessing materials or starting learning.
VERIFY YOUR QUALIFICATION
Certification and Recognition
Complete the requirements to earn the Focus Awards Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young Peoples Services (England) RQF, qualification number 601/8590/9. Certification follows assessment, internal quality assurance and the awarding organisation’s checks.
The awarding organisation sets the exact certificate title. Employers and education providers decide whether it meets their requirements. Check with them before enrolling if you need it for a particular role or course.
Focus Awards
Qualification Number 601/8590/9
Verify this regulated qualification on the official Ofqual Register.
SUPPORT YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Why Study with HHF Training?
Prepare evidence with clear guidance, online resources and tutor support. Connect your study with the duties you carry out.
Learn more about HHF Training and read our learner FAQs before enrolling.
Tutor Guidance
Get help with study and evidence preparation. Use feedback to plan your next steps.
Flexible Online Study
Plan learning around your work and commitments within your course access period.
Progression After Level 5 Health and Social Care Leadership Diploma
Use your learning to develop leadership in children and young people’s residential services, according to your role, experience and employer requirements.
If you manage an adult care service, compare the Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leading and Managing an Adult Care Service. This is a different qualification and starting point, not an automatic progression step from the children’s pathway.
Check the units, entry requirements and evidence access before enrolling. Prior learning is considered only where qualification rules allow it.
GET ANSWERS
Level 5 Health and Social Care Leadership Diploma FAQs
Answers about units, entry requirements, online learning, assessment, fees and progression.
Focus Awards awards the qualification. Its number is 601/8590/9.
This selected route suits practitioners, deputy managers and managers in children and young people’s residential services. You need suitable leadership duties and access to workplace evidence.
Yes. You need suitable duties to show the practical skills required by the units. Agree observation, work records and suitable witness evidence with your employer and assessor. Written work alone cannot replace workplace evidence.
The selected Children and Young People’s Residential Management route has 17 units worth 90 credits: 30 shared mandatory credits, 44 from Group B1, 12 from Group B2 and 4 from Group B3. The full unit table lists the selected units.
Build a portfolio using methods agreed with your assessor. These may include observation, discussion, suitable witness evidence, work records, written tasks and questions. Methods must fit the criteria and your role.
The qualification has 900 hours of Total Qualification Time. Agree your timetable and course access period before enrolling. Study time, workplace evidence and assessment progress affect how quickly you finish.
The fee is £999. Check the live fee card and ask HHF about instalments and any extra costs before enrolling.
Use the learning to develop in relevant leadership roles. For adult care service management, compare HHF’s Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leading and Managing an Adult Care Service. Its entry and qualification requirements differ.
This page describes HHF’s selected Children and Young People’s Residential Management pathway, with 17 units and 90 credits. For adult care service management, compare the Highfield Level 5 Diploma in Leading and Managing an Adult Care Service. Match the qualification to the service you work in and your management duties.