Year 10 and 11 G.C.S.E.
Welcome to Health and Social Care. Students who complete this course find the work covered very relevant and useful to further their career and everyday life.
It is one G.C.S.E which is completed over the year. The one year course usually suits students who are looking into a career where they want to work with people where every day is different. Examples might be Nurses, Teachers, Nursery Nurses, and Paramedics, Doctors, Physiologists, Carers for the Elderly, Social Workers and many others.
The course is broken down into 2 units.
Unit 1 is exam based and contains the following topics.
* Human growth and development
* Factors affecting human growth and development
* Effects of relationships on personal growth and development
* The effect of life events on personal development.
Unit 2 is based on their a special work experience which is set up for a week so pupils may collect evidence on a client and people in the profession of caring They then complete a written assessment.
This unit contains the following topics:
* The range of care needs of major client groups
* How health care, social care and early years services are accessed and the barriers
* How health, social care and early years services are provided
* Workers in health, social care and early years
* Care values which underpin service provider interaction.