PDA Health and Social Care: Promoting Enhanced Professional Practice SCQF level 8

Professional Development Awards (PDAs) extend or broaden professional or vocational skills and are linked to National Occupational Standards.

The PDA in Health and Social Care: Promoting Enhanced Professional Practice at SCQF level 8 is designed for generic and profession-specific health and social care support workers and will equip individuals with a range of knowledge, specialist skills and values to enable them to improve their professional practice.

This PDA covers areas such as Team Working in Care Settings, Leadership and Decision Making, Principles of Professional Practice and Quality Improvement: Audit in a Health or Social Care Setting.

It will provide learners with the knowledge and skills required to carry out their duties whilst working — supported through access to supervision throughout.

The award is at SCQF level 8 in order to take into account the critical evaluative, analytical and reflective abilities required as described by the career level 4 attributes of Skills for Health (2008) and the Employability Skills Matrix for Health level 4 (2013).

This qualification is available through colleges, training providers and some employers. It has been designed to be delivered as a taught course and will normally be available as a combination of workshops and self-directed study.