BTEC Health and Social Care
Health and Social care is about applying our knowledge of health and wellbeing to individual people’s lives. Health and Social Care BTEC deepens student’s knowledge about growth and development and factors that influence it, as well as policies and procedures surrounding how to best promote a person’s health and care for them when they are ill.
Our Curriculum
We cover knowledge about growth and development within Health and Social Care and how this is impacted by physical, intellectual, emotional, and social factors. Student’s gain an in-depth insight and understanding into working with people within the health sector including policies, procedures and ethical guidelines that staff need to be aware of. We also explore psychological perspectives and how these impact a person’s health and wellbeing.
Content
Unit 1: Human Lifespan and Development
Unit type: External
Students examine physical, intellectual, emotional and social development across the human lifespan, the interaction between biological and social factors in health and well-being and how health care professionals provide effective care.
Unit 2: Human Biology and Health
Unit type: External
Students explore the organisation, structure and normal physiological functioning of the human body, and the effect on health of common disorders of the body systems.
Unit 3: Principles of Health and Social Care Practice
Unit type: Internal
Students focus on the principles that underpin meeting the care and support needs of individuals, which are the foundation of all services within health and social care.
Unit 7: Health Science
Unit type: Internal
Students will cover the key microbiological concepts relevant to the field of health science and the role of microbiology in the diagnosis and spread of disease on a local, national and international scale.
Entry Requirements
Please see the entry requirements document here
Is This Course Right For Me?
Firstly, you need to be a highly organised individual. The nature of the course requires that you are able to work independently, organise your time appropriately to meet deadlines, and be able to research and synthesise information from a number of sources. You will need to be highly committed to study in order to achieve at the highest level in this course. If you are thinking of a future career within the health sector or interested in the factors that impact a person’s health and wellbeing, then Health and Social Care may be a good subject choice for you. Lesson will be spent learning to content for the coursework or examination units and student’s often complete independent projects or research tasks that they then present to the class.
Please watch our short video to see what studying BTEC Health and Social Care at Guilsborough SIxth Form is like.
I like the support that we get from the teachers combined with being able to be independent with coursework elements
Madeleine, Year 12 student
I like how there are coursework elements and it is not all exams
Kira, Year 12 student
I like how it has changed my understanding of the health system
Heather, Year 12 student
Where will BTEC Health and Social Care take me past Sixth Form?
CAREERS
Health and Social Care can be the first step into a career as a healthcare practitioner in areas such as mental health or adult nursing, midwifery, paediatric nursing, health visitor, or as a healthcare assistant. It is also a valuable course for anyone who wishes to pursue a career as a paramedic, or as a childcare practitioner. Health and Social Care is especially useful in fields that are ‘people-oriented’ – such as counselling, youth worker, family support worker, welfare adviser, policing, teaching and so on.
Please visit out Careers Guidance page for more information
UNIVERSITY
Some examples of universities and their entry requirements to study Health and Social Care or other related degrees are;
University of Birmingham: BA (Hons) Social Work: ABB.
University of Chester: BA (Hons) Health and Social Care: BBB-BBC.
Anglia Ruskin University: Bsc (Hons) Child Nursing: BBC.
University of Brighton: Bsc (Hons) Midwifery: BBB.