Health And Social Care

Curriculum Intent

BTEC Tech Health and Social Care intend to ensure that each student has the opportunity to understand the wide range of options within the field and prepare them for future employment. The Health and Social Care course is a vocational qualification that takes an engaging, practical, and inspiring approach to learning and assessment. The course equips students with a sound, specialist, and realistic understanding of how to meet the needs of individuals using services and specialist equipment while challenging stereotypes and discrimination. The study of care values is at the heart of Health and Social Care, which develops skills such as empathy, compassion, commitment, tolerance, and empowerment to ‘think big’. This enables our students to become educated citizens and creates a passion for lifelong learning. The curriculum within Health and Social Care supports the school’s ethos as the subject is broad, balanced, and relevant to the needs of students and employers. The curriculum challenges students to think abstractly, work collaboratively, and problem-solve to develop curiosity and a desire for knowledge. The course is designed so that the units build upon each other as the students develop confidence. This allows the students to embed their learning while giving them opportunities to put it into practice. This ensures they develop their technical skills, which they can apply to real-life scenarios through case studies and local community contexts. 

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