Award achieved: ABC Awards and Certa Award Certificate of achievement at QLS Level 4
If you want to enter this varied and exciting area of work or want to enhance your knowledge and skills, this is the course for you. As you will see from the description below, the range of the various components is enormous. We are confident that whatever your next step, you will have a good grounding of the theory involved prior to undertaking on-the-job experience or, if you are already working in a related environment, your expertise will be increased considerably.
Health and Social Care covers a wide range of integrated disciplines including elements of sociology, biology, nutrition, law, and ethics. From this study, students should be able to progress to a more specialised area of further study or a related occupation or training.
Contents
1 – Communication
Methods of Communication
Hearing Impairment
Factors that Support and Inhibit Communication
Non-verbal Communication
Factors Effecting Verbal Communication
Factors Affecting Written Communication
Factors Affecting Oral Verbal Communication
Communication Difficulties
Communication Barriers in Different Care Settings
Theories Relating to Communication
2 – Promoting Quality Care
Rights and Responsibilities of Service Users
Children and Young People
Vulnerable Adults
Staying Safe
Facilitation of Access to Services
Value Systems
Psychological Life Quality Factors
Practical Skills
3 – Life Cycle & Disorders
Growth
Development
Life Expectancy
Factors Influencing Development
Genetic Factors
4 – Theories of Development
Theories of Human Development
Psychodynamic Perspective
Biological Perspective
Humanist Perspective
Constructive Perspective
Behavioural Perspective
Skinner’s contribution
Social Learning Perspective
Language Acquisition
Theories of Personality Development
Evaluation of the Psychometric Explanation
Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment
The Application of Theories to Aid the Understanding of Human Behaviour and Development
Childcare and Education services
Day or Residential Care settings for Adults
5 – Quality of Life
Psychological factors
Conflicting Quality of Life Factors
6 – Nutrition
Guideline Daily Amount (GDA)
Eating Disorders
Psychological
Biological
Social
7 – Addiction
Drugs
Alcohol
8 – Abuse
Staying Safe
Abuse and the Law
Sexual Offences Act 2003
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill 2003
Rights of Victims
9 – Mental Health
The Concept of Mental Health
Definition of Mental Health
Attitudes to Mental Disorder
History of Mental Illness
Definition of Mental Disorders
Major Symptoms and Causes
Schizophrenia (Greek meaning to split the mind)
Depression
Bipolar Affective Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety Disorder
Specific Phobias
Alcoholism
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Alzheimer’s
10 – Social Care Provision
Treating People Well
Care Plans
Barriers to Care
Rights and Responsibilities of Service Users
Social Services
11 – Legislation
NHS and Community Care Act 1990
The Mental Health Act
Suicide Act
Human Rights Act
The Mental Capacity Act
Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs)
Court Appointed Deputies
A New Court of Protection
A New Public Guardian
Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
Advance decisions to refuse treatment
A criminal offence
The Children Act 1989
The Children Act 2004
Every Child Matters
Childcare Act 2006
United Nations Convention in the Rights of the Child 1989
The Disability Discrimination Act
Race Relations Act 1976
Study Method
The course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. Students receive course manual, assignments and study guide plus tutor support by mail and email. You can start at any time and plan your studies over a period of up to one year from the time of enrolment.
Course Duration
Students may register at any time and have a full year to complete their studies. The course will take around 100 hours of study to complete.
Assessment
Each unit is followed by a written assignment (comprising a portfolio of evidence of learning), which is submitted and then marked by your tutor.
Course Endorsement
At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Kendal Publishing Ltd has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 4 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed by Kendal Publishing Ltd to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group , a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.
The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.
Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
