Working with adults is highly rewarding, but also demanding and a huge responsibility. Our Health and Social Care qualifications, available from levels 1 to 3, can help you achieve your career ambitions. Placed in an Adult Care setting to gain valuable hands on experience, you will also learn basic First Aid, Care of the Elderly and more. There is also the opportunity to complete a medication unit within Health and Social Care.
Read moreLevel 1 Introduction to Health, Social Care and Children’s and Young People’s Settings
This qualification will develop the knowledge and awareness of the types of provision in the Health, Social Care and Children’s and Young People’s sectors. They include the roles played by workers, from principles and values through to health and safety and working with others. This qualification is aimed at learners who wish to develop an understanding of these settings before deciding whether working in the sector is for them. It allows learners to gain the knowledge, understanding and skills required for employment or career progression, and allows learners to tailor their learning to their interests through the provision of a broad range of optional units.
Level 2 in Health and Social Care
Our Level 2 in Health and Social Care qualification covers a range of key subject areas in Health and Social Care and includes a bank of optional units, allowing learners to pursue an interest in chosen subject areas. The Level 2 qualification enables applied study of the health and social care sector, providing learners with an introduction to key areas relating to current practice. The mandatory units in this qualification aim to provide learners with knowledge and understanding of key subject areas in health and social care. Achievement of this qualification will equip learners with knowledge and understanding across a range of key subject areas, for example; equality, diversity and rights in health and social care, human growth and development through the lifespan, and the role and responsibilities of the health and social care practitioner in relation to safeguarding individuals.
Apprenticeships
We work closely with local employers in the North East to offer Level 2 and 3 Apprenticeship Diploma’s in Health and Social Care. Our Adult Care Worker apprentices will provide frontline care for vulnerable adults within their own homes, daycare centres, residential and nursing homes, as well as other health care settings. Our apprenticeships in Health and Social Care have been designed to enable our learners to access higher education or assist with progression into the workplace.
