Health and Social Care (4222)

While completing this qualification, you'll cover topics like:

•the role of a health and social care worker
•health and safety
•equality and inclusion
•personal development.
You'll also cover specific skills and knowledge for the options you choose. This may include:

•administering medication
•supporting people with disabilities
•working with babies and young children
•helping people to eat and drink.
To gain these qualifications, you need to show you've got a particular set of skills. You will work with your training provider to review your current skills and find the best way to gain new ones - perhaps by studying, or by trying new things at work.

These qualifications are assessed at work or in a simulated workplace. For each unit, your assessor will watch and asks questions as you perform a task, or will look at a portfolio of work that you've built as formal evidence of your learning. Then they confirm you've got the skills to do the job well.

Which level is right for me?

Level 2
You are a care worker or want to get your first care job. If you're already working in care, you probably work mainly under supervision. You want to increase your skills and take on more responsibility.

This level is suitable for:

•Healthcare assistants/Support workers
•Care workers/Assistants/Key workers/Support workers
•Personal assistants.
Level 3
You're a care worker, and you have some responsibility in your workplace. You sometimes work without supervision. You want to develop or demonstrate your skills, perhaps to become a senior care worker.
This level is suitable for:

•Senior healthcare assistants/Support workers
•Senior care workers/Assistants/Key workers/Support workers
•Personal assistants.
Both qualifications might also suit emerging new types of workers and multi-disciplinary health roles crossing traditional service barriers and delivery models.