Level 4 Award - Support for families with complex and multiple needs towards: learning, training and employment, accredited unit or non-accredited training programme

This award supports the learning, competence and accreditation of practitioners working with families with multiple and complex needs, supporting them towards learning, training and employment.

Learning outcomes

Outcome 1: Understand long term and multi-generational unemployment in families with multiple and complex needs.

1. Analyse reasons for long term and multi-generational unemployment in families with multiple and complex needs.
2. Explain how multi-generational and whole family unemployment can affect individuals, families and communities.
3. Analyse the resulting barriers to learning, training and work.

 Outcome 2: Understand strategies and approaches to address barriers to learning, training and employment within families.

1. Explain when families are ready to consider learning, training and employment.
2. Explain the rationale and benefits of a strength based approach to supporting families into learning training and employment.
3. Explain strategies and approaches to support families and individuals to overcome barriers and become more ready to access learning, training and employment.

 Outcome 3: Understand the range of opportunities for learning, training and employment available in the community and broader area.

1. Explain the range of learning, training and employment opportunities in the community and broader area.
2. Review opportunities available to assess their suitability for different families based on family strengths and needs.
3. Analyse ways in which local services tailor their provision to the needs of families with complex and multiple needs that have experienced long term and multi-generational unemployment.

 Outcome 4: Support families to become more ready to access learning, training and employment.

1. Apply understanding and knowledge of multi-generational and long term unemployment to help families explore and understand their situation.
2. Agree support strategies involving all family members to enable the family to become work ready.
3. Support family members with application techniques.
4. Work with all family members to monitor and review progress.

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 Outcome 5: Support families in accessing learning, training and employment opportunities.

1. Agree strategies with families for them to access learning, training and employment opportunities.
2. Support families to access specialist services which provide placement, employment and training opportunities and support.
3. Support families in dealing with rejection and in building resilience in searching for learning, training and employment opportunities.
4. Work with families and other services to monitor and review the progress of the family.

 Outcome 6: Understand how to reflect on own practice when facilitating families towards learning, training and employment.

1. Describe the methods used to reflect on own practice.
2. Explain the ways in which you can identify and manage your own experiences and attitudes.
3. Explain the reasons why practitioners should reflect on their own practice.

 We can provide this with or without assessment.