This unit is part of the Level 4 Certificate in Principles of Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF) and has the following learning outcomes and assessment criteria:
- 1 Understand resource management issues
- 1.1 Identify the range of resources that a manager in Adult care can expect to manage
- 1.2 Evaluate the importance of using resources sustainably and how a manager can facilitate this
- 1.3 Explain the importance of accurate identification of resource priorities and allocation and potential consequences following inaccurate identification of resources, priorities and allocation
- 2 Understand financial management arrangements
- 2.1 Explain how sources of funding can be used to construct the budget in an adult care service
- 2.2 Explain how an organisation’s financial management systems impact on the responsibilities and accountability of a manager
- 2.3 Outline sources of information and support for managing financial resources
- 3 Understand human resource issues
- 3.1 Analyse the relationship between staffing structures and service outcomes
- 3.2 Evaluate techniques to identify the number and pattern of staffing required to provide a person-centred, outcomes-based service
- 3.3 Evaluate strategies for managing staffing patterns and adjusting them to meet changing circumstances
- 4 Understand recruitment and retention issues
- 4.1 Justify how values-based recruitment supports effective resource management
- 4.2 Explain the importance of ensuring that recruitment and retention practices are free from discrimination and harassment and ways to achieve this
- 4.3 Explain the manager’s responsibility for the induction of new workers
- 4.4 Explain how to identify induction requirements for new staff
- 4.5 Evaluate the impact effective professional development has on recruitment and retention of team members
- 5 Understand how to analyse the impact of resource management on service delivery