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Qualifications criteria for phase one registrants – managers of adult day care services

 

In 2002 the Scottish Social Services Council consulted widely on the qualifications criteria required for workers in phase one of registration. The comments and feedback received were taken into consideration and the final qualification criteria have been set. This information sheet sets out the qualifications required by managers of adult day care services.

 

Applicants for registration who do not hold required qualifications may, if they meet all the other eligibility criteria for registration eg evidence of ‘good character’, be granted registration subject to the condition that they achieve the required qualifications within a specified period - normally their first three year period of registration.

 

We will begin registering managers of adult day care services from January 2006.

To view a copy of a presentation about registration of managers of adult day care services for please click the link below.

Managers of adult day care services presentation

 

 Principles

There is a set of general principles governing the qualifications required.

 

• Integration of practice and learning.
• Recognition within the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF).
• Importance of underpinning knowledge and a value base that is consistent with the Code of Practice for Social Service Workers.

 

Managers of adult day care services

Must hold one of the following:

 

• Diploma in Social Work or equivalent
• S/NVQ level 4 in Care
• S/NVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care
• SVQ level 4 Community Justice (Work with Offending Behaviour) or Community Justice (Work with Victims, Survivors and Witnesses)
• NVQ level 4 Community Justice (Work with Offending Behaviour) or Community Justice (Work with Victims, Survivors and Witnesses) to include or with the addition of a value base unit ('O' or Principles of Care)
• BA in Curative Education
• a qualification meeting the registration requirements of the General Teaching Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council or the following professional groups regulated by the Health Professions Council:
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Arts, Music and Drama Therapists
  • Physiotherapists
  • Speech and Language Therapists

• ·A qualification meeting the requirements for chartered registration with the British Psychological Society in the divisions listed below:

  o Chartered Clinical Psychology

  o Chartered Counselling Psychology

  o Chartered Forensic Psychology

  o Chartered Educational Psychology (including full membership of either the division of Educational and Child Psychology for England , Northern Ireland and Wales or the Scottish division of Educational Psychology for Scotland )

  o Chartered Health Psychologist

  o Chartered Occupational Psychologist

  o Neuro-psychologists and Sports and Exercise Psychologists who have attained chartered status with the British Psychological Society

• Degree or Diploma in Community Education or equivalent, as recognised by Community Education Validation & Endorsement Unit, Communities Scotland
• Diploma in Domiciliary Care Management
• BA in Community Care (Robert Gordon University)

 

Plus

 

• any award in management that is certificated at or above SCQF Level 8* (minimum of 60 credits). Institutions wishing to confirm that their management programme leads to a certificated management award at or above SCQF Level 8, with a minimum of 60 credits, are required to provide evidence satisfactory to the Council that the programme is recognised as a management programme within their own institution. The evidence required by Council will be a letter from the Academic Registrar, Dean, Head of Faculty or a similar authorised signatory confirming that the course meets the quality assurance standards set by their own institution and QAA and attracts a minimum of 60 credits at SCQF Level 8
• Registered Managers Award
• S/NVQ Level 4 Management
• an assessed programme of study (either through a taught programme or by portfolio) where a minimum of 60 credit points covers management, at post-qualifying or advanced level, awarded by the PQ Consortium for Social Work in Scotland
• The Diploma in Public Administration