CACHE Level 3 Teaching Assistant (RQF) Qualification & SEN Certificate

Unit 1 – Schools and Colleges as Organisations

Learner Outcomes:

• Understand the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education
• Understand how schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities
• Understand teamwork in schools and colleges
• Understand educational ethos, mission, aims and values
• Understand the purpose of policies and procedures in education

Unit 2 – Support Health and Safety in a Learning Environment

Learner Outcomes:

• Understand how to plan and provide environments that support children and young people’s health and safety
• Understand how to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits
• Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves
• Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits
• Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication

Unit 3 – Understand how Children and Young People Develop

Learner Outcomes:

• Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years
• Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice
• Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern

Unit 4 – Understand how to Safeguard Children and Young People

Learner Outcomes:

• Understand legislation guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
• Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
• Understand the need to ensure children and young people’s safety and protection in the learning environment
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
• Understand how to work with children and young people to support their well-being