Health and Social Care

EXAM BOARD: PEARSON BTEC TECH AWARD

HEAD OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE: Miss Bevan

STAFF: Miss Kelly, Mrs Wells, Mr Williams

The BTEC Tech award in Health and Social Care gives an insight into the lives of support workers and service users. Health and Social Care is a huge sector, providing jobs in many different areas. As well as working directly with service users, there are thousands of other related jobs including engineering, design, finance, care-taking, health and safety, and administration. You will learn about the people that use services and how people that work within them operate. Unlike some other courses, this is more ‘real life’ and benefits students that need to understand why they are learning something. Don’t know what you want to do next? This course involves a lot of key, transferable skills that will be useful no matter what you decide to do post-16.

Component 1: Human Lifespan Development

Aim: Understand how we grow and develop throughout our lives.

Students will:

Explore how individuals develop physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually over time.
Investigate how various factors, events, and choices impact an individual's growth and development.
Discover how people adapt to life events and cope with making changes.

Component 2: Health and Social Care Services and Values

Aim: Get to know how the Health and Social Care sector works and the care values that lie at the core of it.

Students will:

Learn which Health and Social Care services are available.
Identify why people might need to use these services.
Discover who is involved in providing these services.
Explore what might stop people from accessing the services they need.
Look at the care values the sector promotes to make sure people get the care and protection they need.

Component 3: Health and Wellbeing

Aim: Help improve someone’s health and wellbeing.

Students will:

Learn what ‘being healthy’ means to different people.
Explore the different factors that might influence health and wellbeing.
Identify key health indicators and how to interpret them.
Assess an individual’s health using what they’ve learned.
Create a Health and Wellbeing Improvement Plan for that person, which includes targets and recommendations of support services available.
Reflect on the potential challenges the person may face when putting the plan into action.

What is a BTEC?

The BTEC Tech award is equivalent to a GCSE. The way the course is delivered and assessed is slightly different, but the outcome is much the same. This means you will be able to use it to move on to further education.