Delivering the Understanding Digital Leadership in Adult Social Care training

We hear from Jeminiyi Ogunkoya , CEO, AASOG Education and Training about their experience as a training provider delivering the Level 5 Award in Understanding Digital Leadership in Adult Social Care.

The Level 5 Award in Understanding Digital Leadership in Adult Social Care intends to support adult social care leaders and managers to have greater confidence and capability to lead the use of technology in the delivery of care, and to improve the quality of life and outcomes for people who draw on care and support.

It also helps leaders to drive digitisation within their organisation, lead and support their wider workforce to develop skills and confidence with technology, and lead a positive culture of learning and the continuous improvement of care services.

We are excited to be one of the training organisations delivering this award to care teams.

Before delivering this training, it was important to ensure that our team had the skills, knowledge and competence to support the learners, above the skills level required to achieve the qualification. So, our team who deliver this award are qualified at Level 7 and are very in-tune with the social care sector. The award needs to be completed based on the digital provision and implementation of each organisation undertaking the learning. It’s not a one size fits all approach.

Digital technology in care is so important in supporting personalised care. This qualification helps to ensure our social care system is future-proofed. It helps to enhance the quality of service provided and aligns with the Government goal to increase digital processes in social care.

Looking at the current direction of care, it’s important that people in leadership positions within the adult social care sector are upskilled in terms of their digital leadership competence.

With innovations such as artificial intelligence and other life-enabling technologies making the administration and organisation of health and social care service a lot easier and safer, those in strategic positions need to understand the importance and the benefits of digital care.

From our experience of delivering this qualification so far, we’ve seen that our leaners are committed to enhancing the digitisation of the health and social care sector. Learners also see the importance of being able to reflect on what they're doing in practice, through the type of evidence they've been able to submit to meet the assessment criteria.

It has been great to see that various employers have identified the need to ensure that their senior team achieve this qualification, and that they appreciate the importance the development of digital knowledge will have for social care.

We’ve had really positive feedback from our learners so far. This is what some of them had to say:

Find out more about how digital technology empowers care with our #DigitalEmpoweredCare spotlight.

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