Healthcare

Health and Social Care - Level 2

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR? Health and Social Care qualifications are designed for people who deliver Health and Social Care to clients, who work with individuals to support and assist them with their physical or emotional care, daily living needs or maintaining their independence.

The level 2 qualification is aimed at home care assistants, community support assistants, healthcare assistants and residential or day service assistants.

The award is about direct care, where the focus is hands-on care, (doing things for clients) enablement care, and development and maintenance of the clients independence (supporting and enabling clients to do things for themselves).

It is ideal for participants who wish to have their current skills assessed and recognised against accredited national standards and to raise their individual level of competence at work to meet those standards.

BENEFITS TO PARTICIPANTS: The courses provide you with:

• Recognition of your competency at work, against the industry's nationally agreed standards
• A qualification which is yours and yours alone, which is recognised internationally
• A qualification gained at your place of work - no requirement to attend a training establishment
• A basis from which you can move on to further develop yourself

BENEFITS TO EMPLOYERS: The courses:

• Meet legal requirements for employee training
• Improve workplace performance through reinforcing and improving current skills and attitudes to work
• Develop practical and relevant ideas for operational improvements
• Provide effective learning and assessment by relating directly to the work procedures of your organisation
• Identify employees with development potential
• Save time by being undertaken at the place of work
• Achieve results with minimal disruption to work activities

AIMS OF THE COURSES
This qualification allows participants to prove and improve their competency in applying the skills required across the health and care sectors and to specialise in specific key areas of competence.

COURSE CONTENT
The courses consist of 4 essential and topics and an additional 2, to be selected from a range of 27 options. The essential topics relate to universal requirements, such as healthy, safe and effective working.

There are 4 mandatory topics and 2 additional ones to be chosen from a selection of 27 options. There is also scope within the qualification for additional topics to be included from a choice of a further 14 options.

The courses allow the qualification to be matched to each participant's job function and give the context in which performance is to be assessed.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
There are no formal entry qualifications. This is a work-oriented qualification, aimed at those who have current, real work experience, who are in a position to generate the required evidence of work activities.

COURSE ASSESSMENT
Assessment is continual, through gathering evidence of performance. Assessment in the workplace can be devised to fit company requirements.

Participants are given appropriate credit for prior learning and/or experience to speed up their progress to an award.

QUALIFICATION GAINED: City and Guilds Health and Social Care NVQ - Level 2

FURTHER INFORMATION
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