Please note: Managers must hold or gain a practice qualification and a management qualification
Practice qualification
- SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) at SCQF Level 9
Qualifications also accepted
- BA (Hons) Social Work (or equivalent)
- BA (Hons) Social Work (Residential Child Care) by distance learning - Stage 3 Exit Award: BA Social Pedagogy (Robert Gordon University)
Qualifications meeting requirements of other regulatory bodies:
- 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
- A qualification meeting the registration requirements of the General Teaching Council (Scotland), Nursing and Midwifery Council or the General Medical Council
- Degree/Diploma in Community Education as recognised by the Standards Council for Community Learning and Development for Scotland Approvals Committee
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 qualification we continue to accept)
- SVQ/NVQ 4 Health and Social Care at SCQF Level 9
- BA/Diploma Curative Education (University of Aberdeen)
- BA Social Pedagogy (University of Aberdeen)
- SVQ/NVQ 4 Care
- SVQ 4 Health and Social Care at SCQF Level 9
Management qualification
- BA with Honours in Social Care Management
- SVQ Care Services Leadership and Management at SCQF Level 10
- SVQ Management SCQF Level 9 (GM27 24) plus the following two units:
- H7LG 04 (SCDLMCA1) Manage and Develop Yourself and Your Workforce within Care Services at SCQF Level 10
- H7LH 04 (SCDLMCB1) Lead and Manage Practice that Promotes the Safeguarding of Individuals at SCQF Level 10
- Any award in management that is certificated at or above SCQF Level 8 (minimum of 60 credits) showing evidence the award has been mapped against the National Occupational Standards (NOS): Leadership and Management for Care Services
Legacy qualifications (management)
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- SVQ 4 Leadership and Management for Care Services (LMCS) at SCQF Level 10
- SVQ 4 Registered Manager in Health and Social Care (Registered Manager's Award)
- An assessed programme of study (either through a taught programme or by portfolio) where a minimum of 60 credit points covers management, at post-qualifying or advanced Level, awarded by the PQ Consortium for Social Work in Scotland