Health and Social Care

The BTEC Health & Social Care course is an excellent choice for a career in Health, Social Care, Community Justice or Early Years sectors. You will develop practical, interpersonal and thinking skill and study a wide range of topics.

Subject Leader: Mrs Pegg

If you have any queries or concerns, please email R-Pegg@garthhillcollege.com

YEAR 10 and 11

Exam Board and syllabus code

EDEXCEL BTEC - Level 2 Tech Award in Health and Social Care

Content

This course is concerned with the development and needs of varying service users within Health and Social Care settings. Are you interested in your own health and wellbeing? Are you interested in the health and well-being of your family and friends? If you enjoy working with people and wish to develop an understanding of health and care of all age ranges, then you will enjoy this course.

Pupils will study units on the needs of people in the health and social care sector. This will include effective communication, healthy living, growth and development and life events. You will explore the PIES (physical, intellectual, emotional and social) developments that each person will go through throughout their lives.

Physical Development – how the body and mind changes over its lifetime
Emotional Development – how individual’s needs change and develop over time
Core values – what values do we need to adhere to when working with vulnerable and specific individuals with varying needs
Healthy Living – why is it important to be healthy and ways to maintain our health and well-being

Assessment

120 Guided learning hours are to be completed over the two-year course. These will be assessed by two internal controlled assessments and in the form of a PSA which are set tasks and have to be completed within two different windows throughout the course. The course finishes with an external exam at the end of Year 11.

Internally Assessed Components

Component 1 – Human Lifespan Development (PSA – 30% of final grade)
Component 2 – Health and Social Care Core Values (PSA – 30% of final grade)

Externally Assessed Component

Component 3 – Healthy Living (1hr 30 minutes Exam May Year 11) – (40% of final grade)

Future Pathways

Future pathways include further study at Level 3, for example A Level, and possible progression to university or apprenticeship schemes. There are many employment opportunities within the Health and Social Care Sector.

Home Learning

Home learning is set every fortnight as per the Home learning timetable, however depending of needs it may be given more or less frequently. With regards to coursework preparation, BTEC coursework may not be done outside of college and therefore home learning will consist of exam preparation and research to support coursework tasks.

How Parents and Carers Can Support

Encourage your child to ask teachers for help if there are any difficulties
Encourage your son/daughter to observe the deadlines
Encourage your child to attend any after school revision sessions
Encourage them to make use of the College LRC, public libraries and computer resources if they are available at home
Encourage your so/daughter to attend Catch-Up sessions on a Monday in C108 with Mrs Pegg.

Additional Support Available/Useful Links

We do run after college sessions and we do provide textbooks and revision guides to support pupils in this subject.

There are also practice controlled assessment questions, revision materials on student’s common drive for students to access either at college or via remote access.

Reading List