Health & Social Care
Health and Social Care is taught at Key Stage 4 and Post 16.
Key Stage 4
- BTEC Health & Social Care level 2 = 4 GCSEs
Post 16
- BTEC Health and Social Care level 3 (12 unit Certificate and 18 unit Diploma)
The course prepares students for careers in a growing care industry. Over the past few years our students have gone on to work as field social workers, gone to university to study for nursing, radiography, criminology and social science degrees, taken work with benefit agencies, as classroom assistants and nursing home care assistants.
The various units of work are taught by experienced professionals in nursing, care, education and life skills.
All Post 16 students do a First Aid course as part of one of their units of work.
All Post 16 students in Health and Social Care undertake work placement throughout the course. There are also other links with outside agencies, care homes, day centres, health promotion units to assist with specific units of work.
Department Staff
| Name | Position |
| Mrs B Tickner | Head of Department |
| Mrs G McVeigh | Teacher of KS4/Post 16 / School Nurse |
| Miss F Daffurn | Teacher of KS4 / Post 16 / Assistant Principal |
| Mrs J Cripps | Teaches both KS4 and Post 16 |
| Mrs C Cullen | AS/A2 Sociology / Teacher of Health & Social Care |
Syllabus
Courses offered in this subject are designed to provide a broad education as a basis for either further or higher education (eg diplomas or degrees in nursing, criminology, medical secretary, probation / social work) or for moving into employment, mainly in the wide ranging care field.
This is achieved by ensuring that students develop general skills to enable them to take responsibility for their own learning.
The courses are vocational by nature involving students carrying out their own investigations and enquiries in order to present findings in various ways including written assignments, talks and presentations. This helps in deciding on future career paths.
All BTEC units are coursework based, there are no tests. The units of work studied look at subjects from equal opportunities and discrimination to Child Development.
The course is enhanced by work placements at appropriate times and in a wide variety of settings.
Examination Results
Year
|
KS4 Health and Social care |
Post 16 Health and Social care |
2008 |
97% |
100% |
2007 |
97% |
100% |
Post 16 Health & Social Care
National Certificate
You will study units of work, whose value adds to 720 guided learning hours over two years, which relate to services in the health and social care sector. This is equivalent to 2 A levels. The awards are achieved at either Pass, Merit or Distinction level.
The following units are compulsory:
- Equal Opportunities and Clients’ rights;
- Communicating in Health and Social Care;
- Health, safety and security;
- Development through the life stages;
- Anatomy and Physiology;
- Personal and professional development;
- Sociological perspectives;
- Psychological perspectives;
The following units are chosen from a list of optional units and will cover:
- Adult care;
- Public health;
- Complimentary therapies;
- Health Education;
- Caring for children and young people;
Previous students who completed this course have gone into nursing via university; diagnostic radiography degree; degrees in Social Practice; field care working; criminology degree course; nursing care assistants; work in the voluntary sector; social benefits administration; residential care work; lecturing in social sciences.
The Diploma is the equivalent of 3 A levels and requires 3 extra units to be studied in each of the 2 years, these are:
- Research methods
- Counselling skills
- Coping with change
- Technology in H&SC
- Caring for adults with special needs
- Working in the social care sector
