Key Stage 4 Health & Social Care
Joint Heads of Faculty: Mrs A Driver and Miss A Bateman
Second in Faculty: Miss F Seabrook
The Level 1/2 Technical Award in Health and Social Care provides an introduction to health and social care that includes a vocational and project-based element. The qualification will appeal to learners who wish to pursue a career in the health and social care sector or progress onto further study. We look at a number of different aspects of Health, Social and Early Years’ services from development of individuals and factors that affect this to how services operate and the values of care they must apply.
What will I learn?
There are 8 content areas which are taught across year 10 and into year 11. These are:
- Health and social care provision and services
- Job roles in health and social care, and the care values that underpin professional practice
- Legislation, policies and procedures in health and social care
- Human development across the life span
- The care needs of the individual
- How health and social care services are accessed
- Partnership working in health and social care
- The care planning cycle
How will I be assessed?
As the content areas are taught, students are assessed with end of unit tests composed of short and long answer exam style questions and year 10 and 11 internal mock exams.
Once this learning is completed, students complete a piece of Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) which makes up 50% of the qualification. The NEA involves students applying their knowledge from the different content areas to a scenario, set in a real-world-situation, that is provided by the exam board. NEA is completed in normal class time under a high level of control (exam conditions) within scheduled assessment hours in the autumn and spring term of year 11. Students type their responses to the tasks given independently, using their notes. They are expected to write in a high level of detail and make synoptic links between the different areas they have studied.
The further 50% of the qualification is assessed through an examined assessment at the end of year 11. Again, this covers all of the eight content areas and is a mixture of multiple choice, short answer and extended-response questions.
Where will this subject take me?
Health and Social Care provides a good background understanding of care settings. Further Study could include: level 3 applied generals in health and social care or early years, childcare and education. Level 3 technical level qualifications, including T Level programs in health and social care, education and childcare, as well as a range of options for early years education and teaching assistants. Examples of careers this subject could be useful for include: child care, midwifery, social work and paramedics.