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Health and Social Care

Our Health Careers Academy allows students to move on to wonderful career aspects, in which they will change lives, bring a new life into the world, save a life or comfort families who have lost a loved one. Those caring personality traits are what matters. 

West Lancashire College have a strong reputation with the students that progress within the Health and Social Care courses. Our students are all provided with the very best in teaching essential health skills, counselling, public health, as well as how to provide care and kindness when family members are grieving. Delivered in partnership with employers and universities from the North West, our program content allows students to enjoy work experience opportunities, support individuals with additional needs and providing care for patients with dementia. Linking with the Royal College of Nursing, UCLAN and Edge Hill University, our students will receive the best career in Health and Social Care.

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What can I do with a career in Health and Social Care?

Daily tasks:

  • Monitors patient.
  • Supervises physiotherapy assistants.
  • Offers advice and education on how to avoid injury and promote patient.
  • Explains treatment to and instructs patient in posture and other exercises and adapts treatment as necessary.
  • Plans and undertakes therapy to improve circulation, restore joint mobility, strengthen muscles and reduce pain.
  • Writes up patients.
  • Examines medical reports and assesses patient to determine the condition of muscles, nerves or joints in need of treatment.
  • Provides prosthetic devices to patients and advises on rehabilitation.
  • Carries out a range of oral/dental treatments.
  • Diagnoses and treats patients with a variety of hearing-related problems.

Median Salary

£31,609 View more

Daily tasks:

  • Writes reports and maintains client caseloads.
  • Counsels relatives to help cope with the problems created by a patient.
  • Attends case conferences and liaises with other specialists such as doctors, teachers, social workers and psychologists.
  • Treats speech and language disorders by coaching and counselling clients or through the use of artificial communication devices.
  • Designs and initiates appropriate rehabilitation and/or remedial programmes of treatment.
  • Assesses, tests and diagnoses a client.

Median Salary

£28,571 View more

Daily tasks:

  • Keeps records and writes reports.
  • Maintains contact and discusses problems/progress with other staff and social workers.
  • Establishes and maintains contact with members of the neighbouring community and/or the residents.
  • Provides one-to-one counselling or group therapy.
  • Ensures that all material needs of residents are provided and endeavours to resolve any problems that they may have.
  • Plans and participates in games and leisure activities to encourage emotional, social, physical and intellectual development.
  • Creates friendly, secure atmosphere and tries to gain the trust and confidence of those in the home or under supervision.

Median Salary

£21,673 View more

Daily tasks:

  • Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc.
  • Monitors service users.
  • Undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
  • Helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
  • Provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
  • Generally assists with service users.
  • Serves meals to service users at table or in bed, and assists with feeding if required.
  • Assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.

Median Salary

£16,395 View more

Daily tasks:

  • Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc.
  • Monitors service users.
  • Undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
  • Helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
  • Provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
  • Generally assists with service users.
  • Serves meals to service users at table or in bed, assists with feeding if required.
  • Assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.
  • Responds to emergencies and provides guidance and support to care workers.
  • Takes responsibility for the shift and for the service while on duty.

Median Salary

£20,237 View more

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