Health & Social Care
The Health and Social Care course is a vocational qualification which takes an engaging, practical and inspiring approach to learning and assessment. Content involves the understanding and application of human growth and development, how people deal with life events, health and social care services, as well as a practical demonstration of care values. The externally assessed unit builds upon this and allows students to interpret and assess an individual’s health and wellbeing through an exam at the end of the year.
The course is designed so that the components are built upon each other as the students grow in confidence. This allows the students to embed their knowledge whilst giving opportunities to put into practice what they learn through Pearson set assignments taken throughout the year. This ensures they develop their technical skills, which they can they apply to real-life scenarios through case studies and local community contexts.
This involves group work opportunities, clearly differentiated tasks, report writing through internal assessments and examination technique for external assessments and controlled assessments.
Why study the subject?
If you are looking for a variety of learning styles and a challenge this subject is for you. It provides the opportunity to gain experience through coursework as well as examination elements.
If you want to know how the body develops and how it is affected by events and circumstances, then you will find this subject interesting.
What are the career opportunities for students who study this subject?
- Jobs within the NHS or private health care sector
- Social Care work
- Carer for a range of different ages or abilities
- Childcare
- Youth working
- Mental health/Social worker
Beyond the classroom
Pupils will have the opportunity to attend intervention sessions to support them with their coursework, have guest speakers come to discuss key topics on subject knowledge and workshops trips in the health sector.
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