Health & Social Care

The qualification has three mandatory units covering the following topics:

Human Lifespan and Development – PIES and factors affecting growth and development, interventions and the different professionals providing care and

treatment.

Human Biology and Health – Human body structure and systems, normal physiological functioning and the impact of common disorders.

Health and Social Care Practice – Core principles, values and legislation that underpin and influence health and social care, and the effect of social determinants

on an individual health status.

There is then 1 optional unit that needs to be completed, which will be one of the following:

Health, Social Policy and Wellbeing – Public health policy and its influences, including health-related organisations/groups and a range of strategic factors.

Promoting Health Education – Health education, its purpose and use of different approaches and models to achieve positive health outcomes.

Safe Environments in Health and Social Care – Appropriate provisions in services relevant to different needs; governance relating to safe environments.

Health Science – Types of infections and their potential impact on a local, national and international scale.

Year 12:

• Unit 1 Human Lifespan Development (exam)

• Unit 3 Principles of Health and Social Care Practice (coursework)

Year 13:

• Unit 2 Human Biology and Health (exam)

• Optional unit TBC (coursework)