Adult Care Apprenticeship
GREAT PROSPECTS CARE LIMITED
Kent (CT1 3RY)
Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025
Posted on 12 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Gain hands-on experience supporting adults in need while earning a wage and working towards a recognised qualification. Learn vital skills in communication, safeguarding, and personal care. Ideal for compassionate individuals ready to make a real difference.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Lead adult care worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Flexible working hours
To be confirmed
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Support an open, positive and inclusive working culture
- Minimise risks
- Record relevant activities in care plans
- Promote and foster client independance
- Aid with meal prep, shopping, domestic duties and personal care
Where you'll work
198 Wincheap Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 3RY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EKC GROUP
Training course
Lead adult care worker (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers and other professionals
- Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in social care
- Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion
- Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
- Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals
- Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences
- Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
- Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
- Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
- Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
- Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
- Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
- Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
- Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
- Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes
Training schedule
- Once a month on line training with EKC Group
- Visits from trainer to view course progress
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
About this employer
Great Prospects care provide support to service users with learning disabilities, complex health needs and mental ill health in the community. Our aim is to enable service users to enjoy full rewarding lives, by identifying and realizing their full potential in a person-centered and safe way. Our customers include people who live in the South East.
https://www.greatprospectscare.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Paid mileage Enrolment into Pension scheme Flexible working hours Fully funded diploma in Health and Social Care Favourable career pathway with opportunities to get promoted shopping vouchers Regular Supervision A free uniform.
After this apprenticeship
- A possible full time job with progression opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EKC GROUP
Eleanor Jarlett
eleanor.jarlett@ekcgroup.ac.uk
01227 811315
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336806.
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Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025
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