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Please note: Workers new into their role after 2 October 2017 should achieve registration within six months of taking up employment in this role.

Practice Qualification

  • Any practice qualification in the supervisor or manager category
  • HNC Social Services
  • SVQ Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 6

Qualifications also accepted

  • BA (Hons) Social Work (or equivalent)

Qualifications meeting requirements of other regulatory bodies:

  • Degree/Diploma in Community Education as recognised by the Standards Council for Community Learning and Development for Scotland Approvals Committee
  • A qualification meeting the registration requirements of the General Teaching Council (Scotland), Nursing and Midwifery Council or the General Medical Council
  • A qualification meeting the registration requirements for the following professional groups regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council:
    • Occupational Therapists
    • Art, Music and Drama Therapists
    • Physiotherapists
    • Speech and Language Therapists
    • Practitioner Psychologists

If you have any questions about your qualifications being suitable for SSSC registration, please contact us using the web form on our Contact us page.

Legacy qualifications (past qualifications we continue to accept)

  • A qualification meeting the corporate membership requirements of the Chartered Institute of Housing, certificated before 31st December 2011.
  • BA Social Pedagogy (University of Aberdeen)
  • Degree/Diploma in Curative Education
  • Diploma in Social Pedagogy (University of Aberdeen)
  • Higher Education Certificate in Care (Queen Margaret University)
  • Higher Education Certificate in Person Centred Approaches for Social Care Workers (Queen Margaret University)
  • HNC Social Care (2005 revised award G7ME15)
  • HNC Social Care (all other awards pre-2005)
  • HND/HNC Supporting Learning Needs
  • NVQ Level 2 in Housing, Chartered Institute of Housing Joint Award plus unit HSC24 ensure your own actions support the care, protection and well-being of individuals
  • SVQ/NVQ Care (Level 2)
  • S /NVQ Care / Direct Care (Level 2/ SCQF Level 6).
  • S/ NVQ Health and Social Care, (Level 2 / SCQF Level 6).
  • VRQ Level 2/SCQF Level 5 Chartered Institute of Housing National Certificate in Housing plus unit HSC24 ensure your own actions support the care, protection and well-being of individuals
  • VRQ Level 3/SCQF Level 6 Chartered Institute of Housing National Certificate in Housing plus unit HSC24 ensure your own actions support the care, protection and well-being of individuals