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Health and Social Care

With advances in medication and better education about how to stay healthy, Health and Social Care is a consistently growing sector in the working world. There are currently 1.4 million people working in health care and 1.6 million people working in social care. This accounts for 1 in every 10 jobs of the working population. Despite this, there is still a shortage in some of the most vital roles within health and social care – Did you know there is currently a need for 50,000 nurses? It is also projected that there will be a need for 490,000 extra jobs in social care by 2035.

We aim to answer the questions of what health is and why it is important not to just look at health as being physical, but as a holistic entity that adds to our own personal development and ensuring that balanced opinions can be developed along with the knowledge that is gained.

The BTEC Level ½ Tech Award is a key qualification that puts you in the forefront of understanding the why, the how, and the who’s who of Health and Social Care, preparing students at MKA for some of these vital roles by learning key skills such as empathy, good communication and the services/processes that occur within the Health and Social Care sector.

The Award gives learners the opportunity to develop sector-specific knowledge and skills in a practical learning environment. The focus is on four areas of equal importance, which cover:

  • The development of key skills that prove your ability to interpret data and assess an individual’s health.
  • An insight into processes that underpin effective and efficient ways of working in health and social care, with the end goal of designing a plan to improve an individual’s health and wellbeing.
  • Learning the skills, characteristics, and attributes that are considered the most important in health and social care, including the care values that are vitally important in the sector, and the opportunity to apply and evaluate.
  • Learning the knowledge that underpins the effective use of prior learnt skills, processes and attitudes in the health and social care sector such as human growth and development, health and social care services, and factors affecting people’s health and wellbeing.

Through extracurricular activities and external speakers, we aim to develop a passion for health and social care with the intention of students enjoying and further developing their understanding of the subject. By showing them the different pathways and career options available, students will work hard to achieve these goals, and continue taking Health and Social Care past KS4 and KS5.