Highfield e-learning’s course to support the Care Certificate has been given official endorsement by Skills for Care.
The e-learning has been given the prestigious ‘Approved e-programme’ mark, while Highfield has been awarded ‘Recognised Provider’ status as part of Skills for Care’s Endorsement Framework.
For more information on Highfield’s Care Certificate e-learning, go to https://www.highfieldelearning.com/products/care-certificate
Highfield has been approved by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to provide end-point assessment for the new Retailer Level 2 apprenticeship standard.
To find out more, go to http://www.highfieldassessment.com/
Highfield has recently been approved as an apprenticeship assessment organisation. To find our more, watch the video update below.
You can also find out more by going to http://www.highfieldassessment.com/
Two
new qualifications
for paediatric first aid have been launched in response to recent changes to the early years foundation stage (EYFS) syllabus in England.
The introduction of the new qualifications from Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance (HABC) comes after a Department for Education consultation in 2016 showed there was sector-wide support for newly qualified early years staff to hold a current paediatric first-aid qualification.
The two new qualifications from Highfield, which sit on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), are:
Among the key changes in both qualifications is the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), meaning a new requirement for training providers to have access to the appropriate equipment. Also, the PFA qualification includes among its changes a focus on fractures instead of dislocations, sprains and strains, while the EPFA qualification now covers minor injuries but not anaphylaxis (which remains in the PFA).
While the existing qualifications do meet the updated syllabus, the new qualifications align more closely with it. New staff will be given a three-month period upon beginning employment to complete either a paediatric first-aid or emergency paediatric first-aid qualification.
Training providers will have until 30 June 2017 before the old qualifications are withdrawn and are no longer available to register learners on.
Jason Sprenger, Highfield’s Chief Executive, said, ‘As a result of the government’s review we have introduced a completely new suite of qualifications that will give employers staff who are compliant with the new statutory framework requirements, while allowing early years’ providers to give parents confidence and reassurance’.Pa
For more information on the new qualifications, go to: http://www.highfieldabc.com/qualifications/compliance/firstaid2
A full summary of the changes between the old qualifications and the new ones is available here:
You can also view the update video here:
A range of supporting materials is also available from: https://www.highfield.co.uk/products/sector/first-aid/paediatric-first-aid/
Alternatively, contact Highfield on 0845 2260350 or 01302 363277, or email info@highfieldabc.net
For regular updates, go to https://twitter.com/HighfieldABC and www.facebook.com/HighfieldABC
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Notes to editors:
Skills for Health is looking for feedback on qualifications units to support the Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard for Senior Healthcare Support Workers (Children and Young People’s option) and is asking professionals in the sector to complete a survey.
The survey has been split up into sections and the units have been allocated under different sections for ease: Safeguarding, Communication and relationship building, Mental Health, Providing support, Child development, Knowledge only units, Babies, Generic units and their applicability to Children & Young People.
The feedback will inform the final structure of the qualification pathway.
It does not include the mandatory units and only includes those units with outstanding queries. These will be optional in the qualification for Children & Young People (not the full list of optional units).
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3346081/Children-Young-People-s-qualification-units
This survey will close at 12pm noon on Thursday 9 th March 2017 .
If you have any queries about the survey, please email qualifications@highfieldabc.net
A new qualification is being developed to support the Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard for Senior Healthcare Support Workers.
This survey relates to End of Life Care content of the proposed qualification. There are existing units for end of life care and this survey seeks your views on any changes that need to be made to ensure that they are fit for purpose. The final units will be available as optional units in the Level 3 Diploma qualification.
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3341850/End-of-Life-Care-units
The survey will close at 12pm noon on Monday 27 th February 2017.
If you have any queries, please email qualifications@highfieldabc.net
Skills for Health is seeking feedback from industry professionals on the development of a new qualification to support the Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard for Senior Healthcare Support Workers.
The survey asks for your views on existing qualifications units and any gaps to support the Allied Health Professional – Therapy Support option within the apprenticeship standard.
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3330384/Allied-Health-Profession-Therapy-Support-qualification-pathway
The level 3 Diploma qualification will have shared core of mandatory units that meet the content requirements of the apprenticeship standard and that everyone taking the qualification will do, regardless of pathway. Areas covered include health and safety, handling information, communication, equality and diversity, personal development, duty of care and person-centred approached. Individual units that correspond with the content of options within the apprenticeship standard will also be available for learners to select.
The survey will close at 12pm noon on 6 March 2017 .
Should you have any queries, please email qualifications@highfieldabc.net