Courses

Health & Social Care

Whether you’re looking after children, the older people or people with specific social and physical needs, working in the caring professions can be a very rewarding and challenging career choice. The courses in this department are designed to give you all the skills and qualifications you need to get started and progress in this field.
This course is offered by the OCR Nationals and has been designed to provide candidates with a high quality, industry recognised qualifications geered to specific requirements of specific sectors. These are vocationally related qualifications that provide valuable opportunities for individuals to develop skilss and gain under pinning knowledge and understanding which will support entry into work or progression to further studies.

Entry Requirements
There are no formal entry requirements for this qualification.

Guided learning hours
The time it will take a candidate to complete this qualification depends on a number of attributes (eg. Level of knowledge and experience, commitment etc). As a general guide however, each of the units in the qualification is likely to require approximately 60 guided learning hours.

Courses Offered
The college offers two course in the area of health and social care.

  • Health and Social Care and Early Years level II
  • Health and Social Care and Early Years level III
  • Health and Social Care and Early Years level II

To gain this award, a candidate will be required to complete 6 units
4 of which will be mandatory and 2 optional.

Mandatory units
Unit 1 Preparing to give quality care
Unit 2 Communicating with service users in care settings
Unit 3 Practical caring
Unit 4 Hygiene and safety in care settings
Optional units
Unit 5 Health care for children
Unit 6 Health care for older service users
Unit 7 Development and care of young children
Unit 8 Preparing to work with young children
Unit 9 Preparing to work with older service users
Unit 10 Preparing to work with people with disabilities
Unit 11 Practical first aid in care settings
Unit 12 Nutrition and cooking for health
Unit 13 Creative activities with individuals in care settings
Unit 14 Career planning for the health and social care sector
Unit 15 Work experience in health and social care settings




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