Foundations of practice

Core learning everyone should know

Working in social care can mean working with people at different stages of their lives and with different life experiences, also across a range of different settings.

These foundations of practice will be relevant for your induction and should all be completed if you are using the National Induction Framework. The learning content is grouped into themes aligned to the relevant National Occupational Standards to help you record and demonstrate underpinning knowledge for the core units of SVQs in Social Services and Healthcare.

Find more information on the NOS can be found here.

Foundations of practice

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Work your way through the tiles below and either create a reflective account of what you have learned, or find evidence you have earned in a previous role. Do this for each of the major tiles on this page, and when you have finished, present this to your manager for a review so they can determine what you need for your induction. If your employer decides you have enough evidence to cover one, some or all of the topics below, you will only need to receive any special or additional induction material that your employer has identified.

Some additional guidance can be found on the next dropdown.

To use these tiles, you can select View resources to open a resource. To see a summary of each section, press the ? button on the appropriate tile.

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These foundations of practice will be relevant for your induction and should all be completed if you are using the National Induction Framework. The learning content is grouped into themes aligned to the relevant National Occupational Standards to help you record and demonstrate underpinning knowledge for the core units of SVQs in Social Services and Healthcare.

Find more information on the NOS can be found here.

Please note that some resources on the National Induction Framework may be hosted on TURAS. If you come across any hosted there, you may need to make a TURAS account if you don't already have one. The language on some of the TURAS pages is clinical but may still have learning material that can support your induction. You can register for TURAS with the button below or register when you come across a resource that is hosted there.

Register for TURAS here.

Some links in this resource direct you to downloading ebooks. Ebooks offer an offline way to access a lot of information.

You need an e-reader to read ebooks. You can find more information about downloading e-readers here. here.

Please download this learning assessment and discuss this with your employer to get started.

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