Curriculum Information
Subject rationale – Why study the subject? What benefits does it bring
Health and Social Care is a fundamental corner stone of our society; therefore, our curriculum will ensure that the core aspects of health and social care are personified throughout our teaching. The curriculum is organised to encompass the crucial areas of development of ones’ self through to the essential values that the service provides to our society.
Through our curriculum we aim to inspire young people to have a passion for health and social care.
Throughout our rationale our purpose is to:
- Ensure the Health and Social Care lessons are consistently of a high quality, ensuring all pupils are taught in line with the examination board;
- Challenge learners to aspire for a range of Health and Social Care jobs ranging from theatre nurses to occupational therapists;
- Provide pupils with the opportunity to engage in a range of health and social care opportunities;
- Cultivate an environment of curiosity for learning across the components taught;
- To develop an understanding of health and social care services that will help pupils to develop skills in applying care values that are common across the sector; and
- To allow pupils to consolidate their understanding of health and social care services and will learners to develop skills in applying care values that are common across the sector
KS4 Curriculum Overview
The BTEC Tech Award, although graded differently, is equivalent to 1 GCSE graded 1-9 and is part of the non-EBacc ‘open’ group list of courses for the purposes of the new Progress 8 measure
Knowledge and Understanding
The specification requires students to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Barriers and obstacles to following recommendations
- Recommendations and actions to improve health and wellbeing
- Established recommendations for helping to improve health and wellbeing
- Support available when following recommendations to improve health and wellbeing
- The benefits of a person-centred approach for health and social care workers and services
- The importance of a person-centred approach for individuals
- The ways in which a person-centred approach takes into account an individual’s
- Interpretation of lifestyle data according to published guidelines
- The potential significance of abnormal readings
- Interpretation of physiological data according to published guidelines
- The impact on physical, intellectual, emotional and social health and wellbeing of different types of life event
- Environmental factors that can have positive or negative effects on health and wellbeing
- Economic factors that can have positive or negative effects on health and wellbeing
- Cultural factors that can have positive or negative effects on health and wellbeing
- Social factors that can have positive or negative effects on health and wellbeing
- Lifestyle factors that can have positive or negative effects on health and wellbeing
- Definition of health and wellbeing: a combination of physical health and social and emotional wellbeing, and not just the absence of disease or illness.
- Physical factors that can have positive or negative effects on health and wellbeing
Assessment Overview
|
Component Number |
Component Title |
Weighting |
Level |
How Assessed |
|
1 |
Human Lifespan Development |
30% |
½ |
Internal |
|
2 |
Health and Social Care Services and Values |
30% |
½ |
Internal |
|
3 |
Health and Wellbeing |
40% |
½ |
Synoptic External |
Revision Guidance
CPG New BTEC Tech Award in Health and Social Care Revision Guide.
Pearson Revise BTEC Tech Award Health and Social Care 2022 Revision Guide.
Career opportunities
Studying Health and Social Care is a key requirement and good steppingstone for many medical-based courses such as: Nursing, Counsellor, Child Minder, Health and Social Care Management, Social Work, Occupational therapist, Work in Residential Care, Sport Science, Physiotherapist, Mental Health Care.