Clinical Skills (3051)

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2021
The roles of healthcare assistants and domiciliary care workers, based in either community, residential or NHS settings, are under constant review. Increasingly these workers will be required to undertake more basic clinical tasks when they support service users in their nursing homes, supported living communities and in their own homes.

With a growing elderly population and and expected increased demand for services to work more collaboratively in health and social care to support the basic clinical needs of service users, workers in health, social care and domiciliary services will need to be equipped with the skills and knowledge to undertake clinical tasks to support other registered healthcare professionals.

The level 2 Certificate in Clinical Skills have been designed to support the upskilling of this workforce. We have worked directly with NHS Trusts, Domiciliary Care Agencies and independent care providers. We have the endorsement of the Taunton Deane Federation of General Practices ( Somerset).
This qualification is aimed at learners working in health, social care and domiciliary care who want to extend their knowledge and skills to support those in receipt of care.  Employers in these sectors will be interested in this qualification as they can use it to upskills their workforce.

Centres will be given automatic approval if they currently offer the following Health qualifications:
4223-01/11/13/14/16 or 3576-05
Available to deliver in the following:
  • England
  • Wales – please check QiW website for available funding
  • Northern Ireland

Interested in delivering this qualification?

Find out more about how to become an approved City & Guilds centre or fill out our online customer application form. 

General Information

What Is Involved In Studying This Course?
Learners will cover a range of mandatory and optional units, mandatory areas at level 2 are:
Roles, responsibility and values, communication, safeguarding,  understanding long term conditions.

Please see the handbook for more details.
What Careers Can This Lead To?
These qualfications can lead to jobs as : Key workers in Domiciliary Services, Clinical Healthcare Support Workers, Healthcare Assistants, Senior Healthcare Assistant.
What Is Involved With Delivering This Course?
You will need qualified tutors and assessors. Please see the handbook for more details.

Level 2

Level 2 is ideal if you are working in Health, Social Care or Domiciliary settings in a supervised role.
What Careers Can This Lead To?
The completion of the Level 2 Certificate could lead to jobs such as Clinical Healthcare Support  worker, Healthcare Assistant.
Level 2 Certificate in Clinical Skills (3051-02)
Last Registration Date: 31 Dec 2021

Level 2 Certificate in Clinical Skills

  • Accreditation No: 601/6071/8 This is a reference number related to UK accreditation framework
  • Type: VRQ This is categorisation to help define qualification attributes e.g. type of assessment
  • Credits: Data unavailable Credits are a measure of the size of the qualification
  • Guided Learning Hours: 153 - 199 This is the average contact time a centre would typically commit
  • Total Qualification Time: 184 The total time for the qualification
  • Key Stage: N/A This shows the equivalent Key Stage level.
  • Last Certification: 31/12/2023 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued
  • Qualification fees in the UK: £82.00 Our typical price is the one that is most often paid by a centre for a completed learner. Some prices are made up of multiple charging points so action like taking difference units or specialisms to complete and resitting assessments may mean the cost for some learners differs.

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