Health and Social Care

• Produce a long lasting enjoyment for Health & Social Care
• Develop an understanding of care values at the heart of working with other people in any setting or sector
• Develop a wide range of transferable skills including research, discussion, communication, demonstration, evaluation and independence.
• Build positive communication skills which can be used in a variety of different sectors
• Create resilience to be able to adapt to life events
• Establish independent learners
• Draw upon knowledge and skills from other Key Stage 4 & 5 subjects.
• Recognise how health affects our daily lives
• Engage with people who work in the Health & Social Care Sector
• Develop subject specific vocabulary

Key skills

• Understand human development in terms of PIES (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social) development and how this changes and adapts over a person’s lifespan.
• Apply care values.
• Recognise the power of communication and understand the impact of the words we choose
• Appreciate people are different and we should treat them as individuals
• Empathise with a variety of people
• Understand how humans develop and what can affect their lives
• Build their resilience to be able to adapt to life events
• Apply their knowledge to their own lives in order to be healthy
• Interpret a range of research methods to be able to find answers and literature to support an argument.
• Apply knowledge to a range of case studies including many different people

 
Key concepts

Key Stage 4

• Human Lifespan Development
• Factors Affecting Development
• Life Events
• How Individuals Adapt to Changes
• Health & Social Care Services
• Barriers to Accessing Services
• Skills, Attributes & Values Required to give Care
• Values in Health & Social Care
• Factors Affecting Health & Wellbeing
• Interpreting Health Indicators
• Person Centred Health & Wellbeing Improvement Plans
• Obstacles to Implementing Plans

Key Stage 5

• Human Growth and Development through the Life Stages
• Factors affecting Human Growth & Development
• Effects of Ageing
• Causes and effects of physiological disorders
• Investigation and diagnosis of physiological disorders
• Treatment and support for service users with physiological disorders
• Treatment plans for service users with physiological disorders that meet their needs
• The roles and responsibilities of people who work in health and social care settings
• The roles of organisations in the health and social care sector
• Working with people with specific needs in the health and social care sector
• Principles, values and skills which underpin meeting the care and support needs of individuals
• Ethical issues involved in providing care and support to meet individual needs
• Investigate the principles behind enabling individuals with care and support needs to overcome challenges
• Roles of professionals and how they work together to provide the care and support necessary to meet individual needs.

In the last half term of year 9, students study the BTEC Tech Award, starting with Human Lifespan Development. The course itself revolves around the key idea of PIES - physical, intellectual, emotional and social development and how these apply in different contexts and scenarios.

The course is designed so that components build on each other as students grow in confidence. This allows students to embed their knowledge whilst giving opportunities to put into practice what they learn. This conceptual study alongside practical application leads to the acquisition of knowledge, understanding and technical skills through vocational contexts.

Throughout Key Stage 4 there is a lot of personal development, this includes SMSC through looking at moral dilemmas, effects of an ageing population, recognition of the work health and social care staff carry out daily, values, attitudes and beliefs about what is right or wrong, impact of day to day decisions individuals make in their lives, understand the impact of many factors on health and wellbeing, understand how society influences people’s lives in many ways, consider questions on identify, belonging and behaviour, develop tolerance and respect for all and acceptance of those with differences.

Literacy is taught through developing a broad vocabulary, inferring meaning from a variety of sources, evaluating different interpretations, writing in precision and explaining own demonstrations. Oracy is improved as confidence is built whilst demonstrating care values, evaluating other people’s performances, adapting talk to suit a context and actively listening to others. Students are also encouraged to read around their subject.

Quality Marked Assessments are carried out regularly in KS4 and change depending on which component students are currently working on. These assessments are practice versions of the Controlled Assessments which they will sit for component 1 and 2. When covering content for component 3, students will be assessed regularly with different exam practice questions.

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Throughout year 12 and 13 we complete four different units to make up the Extended Certificate. This includes two exam units and two coursework units.

The course is arranged so that students can build on their prior knowledge and make links across the units. Unit 1 covers human growth and development, ideal for a mixture of students, some of whom have studied HSC before and for those who are new to the subject. Unit 1 has some overlap with the KS4 unit however builds on this adding in theory and more explanations for the patterns we see in human development. Unit 14 then allows students to explore types of physiological disorders, the procedures for diagnosis and the development of a treatment plan and provision of support for service users. Unit 2 focuses on the roles and responsibilities of those in HSC settings and links in with the synoptic unit 5 which is carried out towards the end of year 13 in order to draw on students' knowledge from throughout the course.

Throughout Key Stage 5 there is a lot of personal development, this includes SMSC through looking at moral dilemmas, effects of an ageing population, recognition of the work health and social care staff carry out daily, values, attitudes and beliefs about disability, impact of day to day decisions individuals make in their lives, understand the impact of many factors on health and wellbeing, understand how society influences people’s lives in many ways, consider questions on identify, belonging and behaviour, develop tolerance and respect for all and acceptance of those with differences.

Literacy is taught through developing a broad vocabulary, interring meaning from a variety of sources, evaluating different interpretations, writing in precision and explaining own demonstrations. Oracy is improved as confidence is built whilst demonstrating care values, evaluating other people’s performances, adapting talk to suit a context and actively listening to others. Students are also encouraged to read around their subject. 

Quality Marked Assessments are carried out regularly in KS5 and change depending on which unit students are currently working on. These assessments can be exam style questions for units which are assessment through external examinations and for those units which are assessed through coursework, students will be given regular knowledge checks.

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