Why study Health & Social Care?
This qualification will give you the opportunity to apply knowledge of health and social care through a practical approach. It will provide you with essential knowledge, transferrable skills and tools to improve your learning with the aim of enhancing your employability when you leave education, contributing to both your personal development and future economic well-being. The qualification design, including the range of units available, allows you the freedom to explore more deeply the things that interest you, as well as providing a good opportunity to enhance your learning in a range of areas.
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Pearson BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award in Health and Social Care
Who is the qualification for?
The Pearson BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award in Health and Social Care is for learners who want to acquire sector-specific applied knowledge through vocational contexts by studying human lifespan development, health and social care services and values, and health and wellbeing as part of their Key Stage 4 learning. The qualification recognises the value of learning skills, knowledge and vocational attributes to complement GCSEs. The qualification will broaden learners’ experience and understanding of the varied progression options available to them.
What does the qualification cover?
The Tech Award gives learners the opportunity to develop applied knowledge in the following areas:
- the life stages and key characteristics in the physical, intellectual, emotional and social (PIES) development classifications and the different factors that can affect an individual’s growth and development
- different life events and how individuals can adapt or be supported through changes caused by life events
- health and social care conditions, how they can be managed by the individual and the different health and social care services that are available
- the barriers and obstacles an individual may encounter and how these can be overcome
- the skills, attributes and values required to give care and how these benefit the individual
- how factors can affect an individual’s current health and wellbeing
- how physiological indicators and an individual’s lifestyle choices determine physical health ● the use of the person-centred approach
- recommendations and actions to improving health and wellbeing and the barriers or obstacles individuals may face when following recommendations and the support available to overcome.
Component 1: Human Lifespan Development
Assessment type: Internal assessment, externally moderated
Guided learning hours: 36
Learners will explore different aspects of growth and development and the factors that can affect this across the life stages. They will explore the different events that can impact on individuals’ physical, intellectual, emotional and social (PIES) development and how individuals cope with and are supported through changes caused by life events.
Learners will develop transferable skills, such as written communication skills to support your progression to Level 2 or 3 vocational or academic qualifications.
Learning outcomes
A Understand human growth and development across life stages and the factors that affect it
B Understand how individuals deal with life events.
Component 2: Health and Social Care Services and Values
Assessment type: Internal assessment, externally moderated
Guided learning hours: 36
Learners will explore health and social care services and how they meet the needs of service users. They will also study the skills, attributes and values required when giving care. Introduction At some point in life everyone will need health care. This component will give you an understanding of health and social care services and will help you to understand the skills, attributes and values that are common across the sector (some of which are transferable to other sectors that involve interactions with clients or customers).
This component will help learners to progress to Level 2 or 3 vocational or academic qualifications.
Learning outcomes
A Understand the different types of health and social care services and barriers to accessing them
B Understand the skills, attributes and values required to give care
Component 3: Health and Wellbeing
Assessment type: External synoptic
Guided learning hours: 48
Learners will explore the factors that affect health and wellbeing, learning about physiological and lifestyle indicators, and person-centred approaches to make recommendations to improve an individual’s health and wellbeing.
Introduction
In this component, learners will explore the factors that can have a positive or negative influence on a person’s health and wellbeing. They will learn to interpret physiological and lifestyle indicators and what they mean for a person’s state of health. They will learn how this information is used to recommend appropriate actions for improving a person’s health and wellbeing. Additionally, learners will explore the difficulties an individual may face when trying to make these changes.
Summary of assessment
This external component builds on knowledge and understanding acquired and developed in Components 1 and 2, and includes synoptic assessment. Learners will apply their knowledge and understanding of human lifespan development and life events, sources and types of support, health and social care services, the skills, attributes and values that contribute to care and the barriers and personal obstacles to accessing services. An exam worth 60 marks will be completed under supervised conditions. The supervised assessment period is 2 hours.
Assessment objectives
AO1 Knowledge of health and wellbeing
AO2 Understanding of health and wellbeing
AO3 Apply knowledge and understanding of health and wellbeing
AO4 Make connections between aspects of health and wellbeing
Possible career pathways
Nurse, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, carer, health administration, counsellor, social worker, teacher, nursery worker, health therapies, charity worker, youth worker and many more health and social care provisions.
