KC’s Level 2 Health & Social Care qualification covers a broad base of skills and knowledge that will introduce you to the core values of employment in a range of health and social care settings. You‘ll also get the opportunity to gain practical skills through work experience placements. 

Below you’ll find a sample of the resources and tasks that you’ll be asked to use and do throughout your time at KC. Kickstart your time at KC and take a look!

We have quite an array of watchable resources for this qualification, take a look at the videos below!

ONE.

Using the website HEALTHY LIVING   – research and find out about how the following factors affect us – think about positive and negative effects and consider the effects on both physical and mental health

• A healthy/unhealthy diet
• Exercise/lack of exercise
• Alcohol
• Smoking
• Recreational drugs

Write up what you find out, ready to use in Unit 9: Healthy Living

TWO.

After you have watched the careers videos listed and explored and completed the quiz on the SKILLS FOR CARE website:

• Make a list of the skills (e.g. effective communication skills)  and personal qualities (e.g. patience) you think are needed for someone working in health and social care.
• Try and list at least 5 skills and 5 qualities.
• Then write about why they are important, giving examples of how they might be used in the jobs you have been looking at in the videos/website.
• Once you have done that, think about and make notes on how good you are at each skill and quality and what you think you would need to do in order to improve those you are less good at.

THREE.

Use the link to access games and quizzes based on some of the possible careers in health and social care >> STUDY STACK.

If you want to do a bit more research over the summer in prep for your start on our Level 2 Health & Social Care qualification, follow the links below:-

• NHS Live Well
• BBC Bitesize
• Careers in Care
• Healthy Living

By the end of your time studying Health & Social Care at KC, you’ll have all the skills you need to break into the industry, you’ll have covered:-

Whether you’ve already got your career planned out, or you’re waiting to see where life takes you; check out a few of the career paths that will open up to you once you’ve completed KC.

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