Certificate of Higher Education Skills for the Workplace

Certificate of Higher Education Skills for the Workplace Health and Social Care

Want to make progress in your workplace? Then DEVELOP your skills and step on to the CAREER ladder!

You could develop your skills, improve your self-confidence and restart your career.

Designed to give you the tools to apply your personal transferrable skills to the workplace; the confidence to anticipate problems and find solutions, to work independently and with other people, to plan things out before you start and complete the things that you’ve started… the skills that employers want!

This programme will equip students for various job opportunities in the public and private health and social care environment with a focus on adult and child care. For instance, residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, clinical health settings and day care centres. Students will be able to take up roles such as, Care Assistant, Family Support Worker, Community Worker and Teaching Assistant.

Modules:

• Academic and Employability Skills • Digital Skills and Research Methods • Introduction to Health and Social Care • Introduction to Public Health • Professional Development within

Health and Social Care • Psychology in Health & Social Care

All of the teaching links theory with practice and ensures that each module is contextualised within real workplace situations and challenges.

Successful Candidates Gain:

Certificate of Higher Education (Cert HE)

Progression Options:

Level 5 & 6 in BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care

BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care

The programme has the following general educational and specific aims:

The Health and Social Care (BSc) (Hons) is designed for progression from the Level 4 Certificate of Higher Education Skills for the Workplace (Health and Social Care).

Successful completion of studies on the Level 4 CertHE Skills for the Workplace (Health and Social Care) will enable learners to progress straight into Level 5 of this degree programme which follows a similar pattern of flexible delivery as the Certificate, being delivered with modules that are studied consecutively, with face-to-face tuition at a convenient community location. The programme aims at providing learners with an opportunity to study for an award explicitly focused towards future employability and career progression, and developing student knowledge, critical understanding, intellectual and practical skills relating to established principles and practice in health and social care.

Students will become independent and confident learners with a range of appropriate health and care based, academic and transferable skills which may facilitate lifelong learning. They will be prepared for research or further study beyond level 6 in the field of health and social care.

Modules:

Level 5:

• Introduction to Physiology • Children Young People and Families • Introduction to Research • Principles of Health and Social Care Practice • Changemakers: Creativity and Value Creation • Changemakers: Building your Personal • Brand for Sustainable Employment

Level 6:

• Health, Wellbeing and

Sustainable Development • Community Care and Development • Mental Disorders and Psychopathology • Living With Care: The Older Person • Independent Project