Personal and Professional Development for Elderly Carers
6 ECTS
Personal and Professional Development for Elderly Carers
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Module Description
This module enhances your abilities and competencies in personal and professional development, focusing on team building, diagnostic skills, and interpersonal skills within elderly care.
Rooted in organizational psychology, it explores its application to elderly care practice.
You’ll learn to effectively build and manage teams, develop diagnostic skills to assess and address the needs of elderly individuals, and enhance your interpersonal skills to improve communication and relationships in caregiving settings.
This comprehensive approach ensures you are well-prepared to provide high-quality care and contribute positively to the well-being of the elderly.
Entry Requirements
Candidates who apply must be in possession of at least one of the following:
a pass in English Language and Mathematics;
OR
an MQF Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (‘O’ Level or equivalent).
Target Audience
This course is targeted at:
- Candidates seeking a career and a formal qualification in elderly care;
- Candidates who wish to progress in their studies along the Further and Higher Education route, whilst broadening their chances of advancing in their own career path.
Career Paths
- This programme aims to prepare you to become a caregiver for elderly persons, in line with the National Occupational Standards for Elderly Care.
How you’ll be assessed
The course comprises:
- Evening classes for part-time courses.
- Classes held throughout the day for full-time courses.
- Guided learning, presentations, comprising synchronous online discussions, tutorials and/or videos.
- Self-study hours comprising research, reading and assignment work.
Assessment
Assessment is carried out via two mandatory components:
- Modular Assessment
- Project Assessment
The programme includes different forms of assessment which allow for and promote students’ critical engagement. The formative and summative assessment tasks may include an in-class assignment and/or a home-based written assignment using diverse assessment tools which may take the form of online and in-class discussions, examinations, case studies, reports, proposals, essays, and presentations, etc., as applicable to the diverse modules.
Learning Outcomes
Competences:
At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to:
- Become aware of their own personal skills, attitudes and values in context of helping relationships with elderly;
- Assess professional and personal skills and qualities in relation to working with other health care professionals;
- Determine their own awareness of one’s communication skills in workplace and in stressful situations (with colleagues, elderly and elderly relatives);
- Identify concepts and theories related to organisational psychology to solve problems in elderly care related situations;
- Develop an understanding of the importance of having teamwork competencies when working within a health team context.
Knowledge:
At the end of the module/unit, the learner will be able to:
- Contemporary Dynamics in Patient-centered relationships.
- Relationship Skills in Health Communication.
- Team building skills in elderly care context.
- Team building – practical exercises.
- Self- Preservation.
- Collaborative Professional Communication.
Skills:
At the end of the module/unit, the learner will have acquired the following skills:
- Apply communication concepts and theories to solve problems in elderly care related situations and workplace.
- Apply psychological principles derived from an understanding of stress management and work-life balance in context of elderly care practice.
- Establish how the team is organized to implement the teamwork activities.
- Identify the challenges when working in a team and ways to resolve these challenges.
Judgment Skills and Critical Abilities:
At the end of the module/unit the learner will be able to:
- Evaluate own self and other team members performance when working in a team.
Module-Specific Communication Skills :
At the end of the module/unit the learner will be able to:
- Develop intra and interpersonal skills when collaborating and working within a teamwork context.
- Be able to communicate with superior and record irregularities and obtain guidance when incident or an irregularity occurs.
Module-Specific Learner Skills:
At the end of the module/unit the learner will be able to:
- Constantly involve themselves in training to keep health care records accurately maintained, updated, especially if new technological devises are introduced.
Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences:
At the end of the module/unit, the learner will be able to:
- Navigate through the online learning platform to find, download, and upload assignments, discussion boards, literature, tutorials, etc.
- Use the necessary informatics and technology when and if available.