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Health and Care Studies
Diploma of Higher Education in Health and Care Studies
Certificate of Higher Education in Health and Care Studies
If you are a health and social care assistant, these courses provide flexible learning opportunities to help you progress in your career.
These courses are ideal if you already work in health and social care and wish to progress your qualifications to help you step-up in your career or move into a specialist area. They are flexible, and allow you to undertake study relevant to your employment or for personal development reasons whilst you are working.
Key facts
- The course enables you to demonstrate achievement of National Occupational Standards (NOS) relevant to your area of practice
- For employers, the link to NOS will enable them to build a competent workforce to meet changing health/social care needs
- You can study at your own pace by engaging through negotiated ‘bite-sized’ learning opportunities
- Tuition may be available through the medium of Welsh at Coleg Llandrillo and Coleg Menai
Course content
Diploma of Higher Education in Health and Care Studies
Certificate of Higher Education in Health and Care Studies
You will investigate how to communicate and interact with patients and how to deal with people’s health and social care needs. Modules include communicating and interacting, equality and rights, principles of caring, and the treatment of patients with life limiting conditions. As well as building your competencies in health care, the courses will also develop your professional practice, planning, communication and organisation skills and give you the confidence to take on responsibility. You may negotiate topics of study throughout the course so that some modules can be linked to your current job.
Diploma/Certificate of Higher Education in Health and Care Studies modules
Career opportunities
Studying this course can help you advance in your existing role or could take you into professional education or into specialist clinical, managerial or education roles within your own area of practice. You may use these courses to develop into Assistant Practitioner roles.
Assessment
Assessment methods include written reflections, case studies, presentations, critiques, projects and portfolios. Portfolios include assessment of competence in practice where required.
Course duration
Up to eight years for the diploma, up to five years for the certificate
Entry requirements and applying
NVQ Level 3 with two years' experience as a health or social care worker.
Part time: apply direct
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For more information
about our courses
please telephone
01978 293439
or email
SID@glyndwr.ac.uk
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