NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) – Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice Pathway (601/4312/5)
Qualification Summary
Introduction to this qualification
The aim of the Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice pathway is to guide and assess knowledge and skills relating to the Children and Young People’s senior workforce. If you work in the children’s and young people’s sector in a senior role, this is the ideal qualification for you. You may be looking to develop your career as a senior practitioner within the broader context of the Children and Young People’s sector.
Work Settings and Job Roles
Examples of some of the settings:
• day services for children and families
• assessment centres for children and young people
• contact centres for children and young people.
Learners undertaking the Level 5 Diploma (Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice Pathway)
would be working in job roles such as:
• Deputy Manager
• Assistant Manager
• Day Care Manager
Progression into the early years workforce
Please note that the NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) (Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice) (601/4312/5/CYPAP) holds no employment route to the early years workforce.
Learners wishing to enter the early years workforce must hold a qualification that is ‘full and relevant’ as defined by the Department for Education (DfE). NCFE CACHE offers several Early Years Educator qualifications at Level 3 that meet this criteria.
Those students without a Level 3 Early Years qualification wishing to study at Level 5 could work towards the NCFE CACHE Level 5 Early Years Senior Practitioner (603/3907/X), which meets the full and relevant criteria to enter the early years workforce and count in the Level 3 staffing ratios.
