Health and Social Care - Level 2

• 4 GCSEs at grade 3/D or above, including English and maths
• OR a relevant Level 1 course (e.g. Early Years and Health and Social Care Combined - Level 1)
• Suitable DBS clearance.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive a Level 2 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care.

• Equality and diversity
• Care values
• Healthy living
• Lifespan development
• Effective communication
• Promoting health and wellbeing
• Creative and therapeutic activities.

• Presentations
• Task-based exercises
• Practical demonstrations
• One-to-one support
• Tutorials and lectures.

• Written assignments
• Skills assessed at work placement
• Evidenced by your placement supervisor
• Exams
• Roleplay.

Once your DBS form has been returned, you'll attend your work experience placement for one day each week, completing at least 80 hours with your employer over the year. The College will find your placement for you, and you will be visited by a member of the Health and Social Care Team to ensure you are settled in well and to assess your progress.

As work placement is an integral part of the course, completion of placement hours is mandatory.

Potential work placements include residential care homes for elderly people, day centres for either elderly people or individuals with additional needs and care homes for people with learning/physical disabilities.

If you're aged 16-18 and you haven't achieved a GCSE grade 4/C in English and maths, you'll need to take classes in English and maths alongside your programme of study.

English skills are embedded through reading materials, a variety of texts, such as healthcare policies, early childhood development articles and case studies that you can read and analyse. This will develop your reading comprehension skills and expose you to terminology and concepts specific to the field. Written tasks will require you to reflect on your experiences in healthcare and early-year settings.

Maths is embedded into practical healthcare and early-year situations. You'll practise measuring and monitoring growth, looking at data related to child development. Skills are applied in assessing risks and probabilities associated with Health and Safety issues. This includes evaluating the likelihood of accidents or injuries, or measuring and assessing various health indicators, such as Body Mass Index (BMI), growth charts and nutritional assessments.

Upon successful completion of this course, you can go on to study a Health and Social Care - Level 3 course at Kidderminster College.

Tutorial is a program of essential topics affecting you as a potential employee and member of a community. You will cover topics to improve employability skills, mental fitness (both for you and those around you) and much more. It is an essential part of your personal development.

As part of you weekly timetable, you will be expected to take part in Tutorial. This consists of a 1-1 meeting (at least 3 a year) and Personal Development activities that develop you both personally and professionally. Part of the focus is to raise digital Standards and take part in Employer Engagement Activities such as guest speakers, logging Work Experience and in person and online networking.

We work with Student Experience, Careers and your Curriculum team to ensure your Tutorial elements link to your industry area and to create opportunities to develop key skills for profile raising as well as enabling you to create competitive applications and CVs.

Tutorial is also an opportunity to check in with you as part of a group and individually. You can discuss any issues you might be having that affect your learning and essentially identify strategies and support available to you.