The course is delivered mainly in the classroom; however, you will be required to undertake 100 hours of sector engagement, including a work placement, workplace visits, guest lectures and attending external conferences and events. This sector engagement will provide you with experience in the health or social care sector, tailored towards your future career aspirations.

All staff members delivering this course have vast experience working in the health and social care or health science sector; therefore, a number of local and national contacts have been nurtured to offer additional opportunities to all learners.

This qualification will enable you to develop and demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding within the context of health and social care services, including:

• Principles of care and safe practice
• Factors affecting individuals’ growth and development
• Rights of individuals
• Supporting individuals at risk
• Working in the health and social care sector
• Human health and disease
• Anatomy and physiology
• Supporting health and well-being
• Investigating contemporary issues in health and social care in Wales

This qualification provides underpinning knowledge, skills and understanding, and a range of options to reflect the breadth of careers within the health and/or social care sector.

This course offers a wealth of opportunities for those looking for a career such as nursing, social care, midwifery, radiography, biomedical sciences, social work, psychology, law, criminology, ecology and many other careers.

Recently our students have gone on to study and qualify, for example, as nurses, radiographers, physiologists, research scientists, teachers, social workers, and healthcare managers or have gone on to work as healthcare support workers or work in social care.

Units are assessed through a combination of internal assessment and external assessments in the form of essays, reports, presentations, exams etc.

All applicants will need a positive reference. Suitability for this course will be assessed at interview.

GCSEs: A minimum of 5 GCSEs grades at grades A* - C, including English language or Welsh first language. Mathematics needs to be grade E or above.

Learners progressing from a level two course at Coleg Ceredigion will have different entry requirements, including successful completion and engagement on the current programme of study, proven skills development, good attendance levels and in receipt of a positive reference.

All learners are required to pay an administration fee of £25 prior to enrolment.

Enhanced DBS - £44 (dependent on work placement).

Uniform (Coleg Ceredigion scrubs) - approximately £15.00

Occasional departmental trips and visits associated with the course – all costs will be minimal where possible.