After successful completion of this course you can progress to Health and Social Care Extended Diploma Level 3 or a Health and Social Care Apprenticeship should you also have English and maths at GCSE grade 4/C or above.
What can this course lead to?
Who is it for?
Further your experience and insight into the health and social care sector by acquiring a range of skills and personal attributes. You will study communication, safeguarding, working in health and social care, human growth and development, nutrition, equality and diversity and anatomy and physiology, whilst also gaining real-life experiences via work placements to support your studies.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
4 GCSEs at grades 3/D or above including English and maths You will require a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Certificate with no grounds you are professionally unsuitable to undertake professional practice or placement. We will contact you with more details on how to apply for this once you have been offered a place on your course.
There are wide variety of learning methods including written assessment, professional discussion, presentations and group and practical activities.
You will be assessed through a range of methods such as: presentations, group work and written tasks within lessons.
You will require a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Certificate with no grounds that you are professionally unsuitable to undertake professional practice or placement. Information about applying for this will be made available to you once you have been offered a place on the course.
We will review each application on a case-by-case basis to ensure you get a place on the course most suitable for you. One of the ways we do this is through a very effective ‘6 weeks to success programme’ that operates from the first day you start your course. This includes support such as (but not limited to): Allowing you to change courses if you change your mind in the first 6 weeks -subject to availability Moving you between course levels if you are finding your current level too easy/too hard, subject to availability One-to-one reviews with your academic tutor to ensure you are progressing and achieving well Our course enquiries and admissions team are available at enquiries@stamford.ac.uk should you have any further questions.
Start date: 01/09/2025
SED2HS5AF$
1 Year
Full-time courses are fully funded for 16 to 18-year-olds. For age 19+, various funding options are available.
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