Health and Social Care Level 2
Start Date: 2nd September 2024
- Length 1 Year
- Study Full Time
- Location West Lancashire College
Qualification Gained
Level 2 Diploma or Extended Certificate in Health & Social Care
Levels ExplainedMore about the course
Our Level 2 in Health and Social Care is designed to provide opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge, which are transferable and will enable individuals to meet changing circumstances.
Those changing circumstances can arise from a shift in their own status, employment, general changes in care practice, provision or environment. It also provides opportunity for students to gain a nationally recognised vocationally specific qualification to enter employment as a care work.
This course is ideal for those who wish a gain a recognised qualification in Care and who would like to progress onto a Level 3 course.
Entry requirements
- 4 GCSEs at Grade 3-9, including English and/or Maths
What will I achieve?
If you successfully complete this course, you will receive a Level 2 Diploma or Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care.
Students will also receive a Functional Skills in English or Maths, or a GCSE English and Maths if applicable.
What will I learn?
- Social influences on health and well being
- Promoting health and well being
- The impact of nutrition on health and well being
- Creative and therapeutic activities in health and social care
- Assessment will be in the form of external assessed examination and internally assessed written assignments
What experience will I have?
- Links with the Royal College of Nursing
- Links with Partner Universities – UCLAN and Edge Hill University
- Industry recognised training and qualifications delivered by expert tutors with experience in the Health Care sector including a Midwife and Social Worker
- Unique work placements in a variety of roles within the medical sector with placements being offered with leading employers including NHS, Virgin Care and West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
- Access to our Health Careers Recruitment Agency to help you find suitable employment within your chosen profession
- Industry visits appropriate to your chosen career including Ashworth Hospital, Thackray Medical Museum, The Mind, Body & Soul Experience and bespoke taster days at local universities
- Guest speakers appropriate to your chosen career including Nugent Care, Southport Community Mental Health Team, Virgin Care, BEAT (Eating Disorders), Royal College of Nursing, Addaction Group, Lancashire NHS Team, Local Safeguarding Adult Board for Lancashire, Council for Voluntary Service and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, West Lancashire
- Workshops and seminars delivered by Health Care Professionals and Professors including Edge Hill University and UCLAN.
- Look and feel like a Health Care professional with our Health Careers Academy Uniform.
- Bespoke University days and support with UCAS personal statements to help secure your chosen University
- Access to enhancements such as sporting activities, clubs, National Citizenship Service, additional short courses where appropriate eg introduction to counselling and psychology.
- The opportunity to participate in an international project, including an overseas residential to Nepal
- Progression onto a guaranteed place on degree level course at West Lancashire College.
How am I assessed?
- Assignment work
- Projects
- Case studies
- Practical activities
- External exams
Where can I progress?
Successful completion of the course may allow progression to the Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care, if Merits or Distinctions are gained.
Our students have continued onto University to study:
- Children’s Nursing at UCLAN, Edge Hill University and Cumbria University
- Mental Health Nursing and Social Work, a combined degree at Edge Hill University
- Psychotherapy and Counselling at UCLAN
- Midwifery at Salford University
- Adult Nursing at John Moores University and Edge Hill University
- Occupational Therapy at Salford University and University of Sheffield
- Learning Disability Nursing at Lancaster University
- Social Work at Edge Hill University
- Nutrition & Health at Edge Hill University
- Paramedic Science at UCLAN
Course costs
If you are 16-18 years old you do not have to pay course tuition fees*
If you need information on any financial support that may be available to you with fees or study costs on this course, please contact Student Services who can offer advice and assistance on accessing any financial support that may be available.
*Exam and registration fees will be paid for by the college. This is subject to satisfactory attendance and course completion
Contact our team
Meet our students and tutors
Alicia
Health and Social Care StudentI’ve been enjoying learning about the different diseases, the heart in the anatomy unit, as well as aspects within public health, such as: medicines, different treatment and strategies that the government put into place to help the public. I’d recommend West Lancashire College to all high school students, as I was able to explore different careers as the tutors accommodated my learning in order to suit my interests.
What can I do with a qualification in Health and Social Care?
Daily tasks:
- Assesses and advises on factors affecting business performance.
- Determines staffing levels appropriate for accounting activities.
- Plans external and internal audit programmes, arranges for the collection and analysis of accounting, budgetary and related information, and manages the company.
- Participates in the formulation of strategic and long-term business plans, assesses the implications for the organisation financial mechanisms and oversees their implementation.
Daily tasks:
- Stays abreast of and ensures adherence to relevant legislation regarding tendering and procurement procedures.
- Researches and identifies new products and suppliers.
- Interviews suppliers.
- Arranges for quality checks of incoming goods and ensures suppliers deliver on time.
- Negotiates prices and contracts with suppliers and draws up contract documents.
- Devises purchasing policies, decides on whether orders should be put out to tender and evaluates suppliers.
- Determines what goods, services and equipment need to be sourced.
Daily tasks:
- Stays abreast of relevant legislation, considers its impact on the organisation.
- Considers alternative work procedures to improve productivity.
- Examines and reports on company and departmental structures, chains of command, information flows, etc. and evaluates efficiency of existing operations.
- Develops and administers salary, health and safety and promotion policies.
- Undertakes industrial relations negotiations with employees.
- Provides or arranges for provision of training courses.
- Oversees the monitoring of employee performance and career development needs.
- Oversees the preparation of job descriptions, drafts advertisements and interviews candidates.
- Determines staffing needs.
Daily tasks:
- Carries out research into aspects of the natural world.
- Prepares applications for funding to other organisations, and assessing applications for funding from other organisations.
- Promotes conservation issues via educational talks, displays, workshops and literature and liaison with the media.
- Maintains and develops knowledge in relevant policy areas within a national and European legislative context.
- Liaises with other groups in the selection and maintenance of the Protected Site System including Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Ramsar sites, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and National Nature Reserves (NNRs).
- Provides advice and information to government at national and local levels, clients, landowners, planners and developers to facilitate the protection of the natural environment.
- Implements, evaluates and monitors schemes for the management and protection of natural habitats.
- Carries out environmental impact assessments and field surveys.
- Promotes and implements local and national biodiversity action plans, particularly with regard to threatened species and habitats.
Daily tasks:
- Provides professional guidance to clients, government agencies, regulators and other relevant bodies, having regard for sustainable approaches and solutions.
- Implements, reviews and advises on regulatory and legislative standards, guidelines and policies.
- Assists organisations to conduct their activities in an environmentally appropriate manner.
- Communicates scientific and technical information to relevant audiences in an appropriate form, via reports, workshops, educational events, public hearings.
- Carries out environmental audits and environmental impact assessments.
- Carries out environment-related desk-based research and fieldwork to collect, analyse and interpret data to determine their validity, quality and significance.
- Implements remediation works.
- Advises on and provides solutions for mitigating the effects of such contamination.
- Identifies contamination of land, air or water and assesses any adverse impact on the environment.
Daily tasks:
- Monitors the standards of scientific and technical research undertaken by the research team.
- Plans work schedules, assigns tasks and delegates responsibilities to the research and development team.
- Develops research methodology, implements and reports upon research investigations undertaken.
- Liaises with production departments to investigate and resolve manufacturing problems.
- Establishes product design and performance objectives in consultation with other business functions.
Daily tasks:
- Supervises the implementation of care and treatment plans by other healthcare providers.
- Prepares and delivers lectures, undertakes research, and conducts and participates in clinical trials.
- Refers patient to specialist where necessary and liaises with specialist.
- Supervises patient.
- Administers medical tests and inoculations against communicable diseases.
- Diagnoses condition and prescribes and/or administers appropriate treatment/surgery.
- Examines patient, arranges for any necessary x-rays or other tests and interprets results.
Daily tasks:
- Applies psychological treatment methods to help athletes achieve optimum mental health and enhance sporting performance.
- Applies professional knowledge and techniques within the workplace, addressing issues such as job design, work groups, motivation etc..
- Maintains required contacts with family members, education or other health professionals, as appropriate, and recommends possible solutions to problems presented.
- Studies psychological factors in the treatment and prevention of mental illness or emotional and personality disorders.
- Analyses the effect of hereditary, social and physical factors on thought and behaviour.
- Observes and experiments on humans and animals to measure mental and physical characteristics.
- Develops treatment and guidance methods and gives treatment or guidance using a variety of therapy and counselling techniques.
- Develops and administers tests to measure intelligence, abilities, aptitudes, etc. and assesses results.
Daily tasks:
- Ensures that drugs and medicaments are in good supply and are stored properly.
- Tests and analyses drugs to determine their identity, purity and strength.
- Liaises with other professionals regarding the development, manufacturing and testing of drugs.
- Maintains prescription files and records issue of narcotics, poisons and other habit-forming drugs.
- Checks that recommended doses are not being exceeded and that instructions are understood by patients.
- Highlights a drug.
- Advises health professionals on the selection and appropriate use of medicines.
- Prepares or directs the preparation of prescribed medicaments in liquid, powder, tablet, ointment or other form following prescriptions issued by medical doctors and other health professionals.
Daily tasks:
- Carries out research with glass and lens manufacturers.
- Refers patient to a specialist, where necessary.
- Advises patient on proper use of glasses, contact lenses and other aids, and on appropriate lighting conditions for reading and working.
- Prescribes, supplies and fits appropriate spectacle lenses, contact lenses and other aids.
- Examines eyes and tests vision of patient, identifies problems, defects, injuries and ill health.
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