Health & Social Care (BTEC)

During Component 1, students will:
• Explore how individuals develop physically, emotionally, socially and
intellectually over time
• Investigate how various factors, events and choices impact individuals’
growth and development
• Discover how people adapt to life events and cope with making changes

During Component 2, students will:
• Learn which health and social care services are available
• Identify why people might need to use these services
• Discover who’s involved in providing these services
• Explore what might stop people from accessing the services they need
• Look at the care values the sector has to make sure people get the care
and protection they need

During Component 3, 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

Teaching sessions will be around 2 hours. Within this time you will have a teaching session with several activities, this will be structured group work or individual research tasks, followed by group discussions. There are also practical elements to the course where you will use medical equipment in order to learn what ‘being healthy’ means and apply this to real life case studies, where you can identify risk factor to the health of an individual.

The course will allow you to progress to level 3 where you can study at level 3 (A level qualification or apprenticeship). Alternatively you could enter employment within health and social care where you can develop skills and knowledge on the job within a support role.