Domiciliary care manager (services for adults)

If domiciliary care managers are working with both adults and children, it is the employers’ responsibility to make sure the manager has undertaken the appropriate learning for adults and children, and that they have the knowledge, understanding and skills needed for their role.

Service regulations require that “the service provider must ensure that at all times a sufficient number of suitably qualified, trained, skilled, competent and experienced staff are deployed to work at the service”.

The suitable qualifications are included on this framework.

The Qualification Framework sets out the required qualifications needed to register as a social care manager. Where you do not hold one of these but hold an alternative qualification which meets agreed essential criteria, completion of the Induction Framework can enable you to register with Social Care Wales either:

• for the first time or;
• to move to a different part of the Register.

If you wish to use this route to register, you will need to submit an application to the registration team. If the application is successful, you should complete the Induction Framework within the first 12 months of your registration and must provide evidence of this as part of your renewal of registration.

If you are already registered with us and wish to change to another part of the Register, you do not need to submit a new application. You will need to send an email to registrants@socialcare.wales, requesting a change to your registration.

If you are already registered as a domiciliary care manager and wish to provide services for children and young people, you do not need to submit a new application. We recommend you use the service specific section/s of the Induction Framework related to children and young people to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills for this service area.

Any of the other level 3 qualifications or above listed on the Qualification Framework for domiciliary care support workers (services for adults).

Enrolment on the City and Guilds Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care.

Those enrolled on the City and Guilds Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care will need to complete this plus the Level 5 Leadership and Management of Health and Social Care: Practice qualification within their first three year period of registration.

Or for those registered before May 2013:

The Qualification Framework sets out the required qualifications needed to register as a social care manager, where you do not hold one of these but hold an alternative UK qualification which meets agreed essential criteria, completion of the Induction Framework can be used as a ‘top up’ if you wish to register with Social Care Wales either:

• for the first time or;
• to move to a different part of the Register.

If you wish to use this route to register, you will need to submit an application to the registration team. If the application is successful, you should complete the Induction Framework within the first 12 months of your registration and must provide evidence of this as part of your renewal of registration.

If you are already registered with us and wish to change to another part of the Register, you do not need to submit a new application. You will need to send an email to registrants@socialcare.wales, requesting a change to your registration.