eCPD Resource - Money Management

Health & Social Care

Health & Social Care Money Management

1eCPD ResourceFunctional Skills

Introduction

This activity will take placement while you are on a placement in a Health and Social Care setting.

You will need to:

• Support individuals with money management, using different mathematics

• Calculate how much money you have left over.

Once you have completed the task, discuss this with your workplace mentor.

Equipment

It would be useful to have the following:

• A calculator

• A pen, pencil and eraser

Learning

In this task you will be covering the areas detailed below:

• Health and Social Care:

• Working with money in figures and words

• Supporting an individual with their financial affairs

Functional Skills:

• Select and apply mathematics in an organised way to find solutions to practical problems for different purposes.

There is a section at the back of this booklet for any notes you want to make.

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Task 1

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Refer to the settings good practice in supporting individuals with financial affairs.

Summarise this below:

Task 2

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You are supporting a resident with a learning disability to go the bank to deposit £18.27 for a bill. You need to write this out correctly below.

Task 3

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You then take the individual shopping and you need to monitor their spending.

They have £127.52

They have purchased a dress for £21.57, a necklace for £10.28 and a pair of shoes for £12.22.

Please work out the following calculations: Spending amount (£127.52) – dress (£21.57) =Minus the necklace (£10.28) =Finally minus the cost of the shoes (£12.22) =

With the money you have left over the individual would like to go for dinner they spend another £6.10 how much does the individual take home?

(Show calculations below, continue on to the next sheet if required) 

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Task 4

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You are supporting an individual to put the money away in their money tin after their shopping trip. There is £321.24 in the tin already.

You add the money left over.

How much is now in the tin?

Task 5

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Underline the digit for the hundreds and write this out in words. When you are looking at the incomings and outgoings of an individual or you are supporting them, you will need to record this correctly.

£127………………………………………………

£233……………………………………………….

£2,345……………………………………………..

£4,444………………………………………………

£321.24……………………………………………..

£1,130.05…………………………………………...

£12,287,234…………………………………………

Health & Social Care, Money Management - eCPD Resource

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