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CAREGIVING NC II

Course Overview

This qualification highlights the job of support workers who perform specialized duties and responsibilities in whether they are residential, home-based, or community-based. It covers essential competencies in a variety of sectors, including providing care to newborns, infants, toddlers, special children, the elderly, and the severely disabled. Workers will take ownership of their outputs within established organizational parameters and will ensure the delivery of high-quality services by developing, facilitating, and reviewing individualized service planning and delivery.

Course Duration: 786 hrs. 18 hours of Basic Competencies, 18 hours of Common Competencies, and 700 hours of Core competencies.

 

Qualification Level: NC LEVEL II

 

Course Description: The course is designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of Caregiving NC II in accordance with industry standards.  It consists of competencies that a person must achieve to provide care and support to infants/toddlers, provide care and support to children, foster social, intellectual, creative, and emotional development of children, foster the physical development of children, provide care and support to elderly, provide care and support to people with special needs, maintain a healthy and safe environment, respond to an emergency, clean living room, dining room, bedrooms, toilet and bathroom, wash and iron clothes, linen, fabric, prepare hot and cold meals.

 

Entry Requirements:

 

Trainees or students should possess the following requirements:

 

  • Can communicate both in oral and written;

  • Physically and mentally fit;

  • With good moral character; and

  • Can perform basic mathematical computation.

 

Institutional Requirements:

 

  • Computer Literate 

  • Knowledgeable in Microsoft Office

  • Knowledgeable in online conference platforms

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Assessment Methods 

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Face to face and/or Online

  • Case studies and scenarios as a basis for discussion of issues and strategies in teamwork

  • Case Study/Situation

  • Demonstration with questioning

  • Direct Observation

  • Exams and Tests

  • Interview

  • Interview/oral questioning

  • Observation

  • Observation of simulation and or role play involving the participation of individual members to the attainment of organizational goal

  • Observation of the individual member in relation to the work activities of the group

  • Observation with questioning

  • Oral interview and written test

  • Portfolio

  • Portfolio Assessment

  • Portfolio Assessment

  • Simulation/Role-plays

  • Third-Party Report

  • Third-Party Reports

  • Written Test

  • Written Test/Examination

 

Course Delivery

 

Blended Learning Delivery Mode

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Face to face and/or Online

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  • Brainstorming

  • Demonstration

  • Discussion

  • Group discussion

  • Interaction

  • Lecturette

  • Plant Tour

  • Roleplay

  • Simulation

  • Symposium

  • Video viewing

Career Outcomes

Caregiver for Elderly Persons – lives and works in a patient's home to administer necessary care.

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Caregiver of People with Special Needs – lives and works in a patient's home to administer necessary care.

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Caregiver for Children

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Nursing Home Caregiver – employed in nursing homes, home for the aged, and other related institutions to take care of patients of specific age groups.

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Hospital Caregiver – works in different hospital wards as assistants to nurses and doctors.

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Caregiver in a Private Clinic – employed in private clinics and health care institutions that cater to people with different medical needs.

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Hospital Patient Care Aide – work as health care assistants specifically in a hospital setting. They work under the supervision of and take direction from staff nurses and doctors.

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Nurse Assistants/Nursing Aides – help patients get in and out of bed, bathe them, help them get dressed, and wash and brush their hair; they serve meals and help patients with eating.

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