HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

About 3 million people work in Health and Social Care. Healthcare roles include doctors, pharmacists, nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants; while social care roles include care assistants, occupational therapists, counsellors and administrators. Together, they account for nearly one in ten of all paid jobs in the UK and demand for both Health and Social Care is likely to rise.

This new Pearsons BTEC Leve 2 Tech Award qualification in Health and Social Care is the same size and level as a GCSE and is aimed at everyone who wants to find out more about the health and social care sector. 

It allows learners to study how people grow and develop throughout their lives (from infancy to old age) and the factors that may affect this, such as major life-changing events like marriage or parenthood. 

Students will learn how people adapt to these changes, as well as the types of support available to help them, different Health and Social Care services, and ‘care values’ and their importance in making sure that the people who use these services get the care they need. 

Sector-specific knowledge and skills are gained in a practical learning environment, including:

• Developing key skills including interpreting data to assess an individual’s health;

• Processing effective ways of working in health and social care, such as designing a plan to improve an individual’s health and well-being;

• Understanding attitudes that are considered most important in health and social care, including the care values that are vitally important in the sector and having the opportunity to practise applying them; and

• Gaining knowledge that underpins the effective use of skills, processes and attitudes within the sector, such as human growth and development, health and social care services and factors affecting people’s health and wellbeing.