Qualification: Level 4 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF)
Unit: Unit 10: Professional Development in Adult Care
Learning outcome: 2 Understand the value of literacy, numeracy and digital skills
Assessment criteria: 2.1 Assess the importance of literacy, numeracy and digital skills across the range of roles in adult care
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- Minimum standards of literacy, numeracy and digital skills are essential for adult care workers because they are used in many areas of job roles and responsibilities.
- without these skills care workers may not be able to carry out their job roles effectively.
- Some examples activities that use these skills are provided below:
- Literacy:
- maintaining coherent records
- reading care plans
- understanding policies and procedures
- Numeracy:
- medication dosages and drug stock checks
- money management and balance checks
- Digital skills:
- using email
- writing documents on a computer
- accessing and using software programs such as care planning apps
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