Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Y/505/3080
Credits:
6
Guided learning hours:
42 hours

Assessment Guidance

Portfolio of Evidence.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.

Understand substances, their use and effects.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Summarise a wide range of substances and methods of taking them.
  • 1.2
    Explain the likely effects and associated risks of drug use in individual cases.

2.

Understand current relevant legislation and local and national strategies for delivery of services for substance users.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Explain current legislation and its impact on drug users and workers and services, including those within own organisation.
  • 2.2
    Evaluate national and local strategies underpinning the delivery of services for substance users.

3.

Understand the stages of treatment provision.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Explain, using examples, the stages of treatment.
  • 3.2
    Explain how stages of treatment relate to the levels of assessment.
  • 3.3
    Explain the roles of workers within each stage and their contribution to the overall package of care, using examples from own organisation.

4.

Understand the modalities of treatment.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1
    Evaluate the effectiveness of specialist treatment modalities, taking into consideration the needs of special groups.

5.

Understand the role of prevention as a health promotion approach.

Assessment Criteria

  • 5.1
    Explain the role of prevention as a health promotion approach, giving examples within each of the stages of treatment.

6.

Understand the need to promote diversity, equality and the rights of service users.

Assessment Criteria

  • 6.1
    Analyse attitudes to different groups of substance misusers and predict how these attitudes might affect their perception and experience of treatment services.
  • 6.2
    Summarise a range of actions that services and individual workers can take to promote diversity, equality, and the rights of service users.
  • 6.3
    Explain the relative importance of confidentiality and information sharing in providing services to substance users.

7.

Understand how to promote choice, well-being and protection of substance users.

Assessment Criteria

  • 7.1
    Explain how to maintain relationships that support service users in expressing their views and preferences about their current and future health and well-being.
  • 7.2
    Explain how to support service users in communicating their views and preferences.

8.

Know how to monitor, maintain and promote health and safety in the working environment.

Assessment Criteria

  • 8.1
    Summarise current national and European health and safety legislation.
  • 8.2
    Explain the importance of adhering to own organisation’s health and safety procedures.
  • 8.3
    Implement a risk assessment in own working environment.
  • 8.4
    Explain how to adhere to legal and organisational requirements relating to hazardous materials and waste.
  • 8.5
    Demonstrate correct completion of health and safety records.