Health
- Core content
- Options to specialise
- Awarding Organisation resources
- Additional considerations for this course
- Gatsby resources
- AoC resources
Core content
The Core Component provides a broad understanding of the healthcare industry and covers the following topics:
- The healthcare sector
- Health, safety and environmental regulations in the health sector
- Managing personal information and data within the health sector
- Good scientific and clinical practice
- Providing person-centred care
- Health and wellbeing
- Safeguarding
- Core science concepts
- Further science concepts in health
The Core Component will be assessed by two exams and an Employer Set Project.
Options to specialise
In addition to the core content, each student must choose one of the following specialisms:
- supporting the adult nursing team
- supporting the care of children and young people
- supporting the mental health team
- supporting the midwifery team
- supporting the therapy teams
Awarding Organisation resources
Pearson has developed a wide range of resources to help providers to deliver the Health T Level.
Approval and quality assurance
- Support to help providers through the approval process can be here in the provider approval section
Registration, entries and results
- Information on how to register learners for their T Level as well as how to make bookings for the correct assessment series can be found here in the key dates schedule section
Administrative support
- Details about fees, quality assurance and assessment and support guides can be found here
Specification and specimen assessment materials
- Specimen assessment materials for the core exams, employer set projects and occupational specialist components can be found here
Assessment guidance found here
- Past papers mark schemes and chief examiner reports for core and occupational specialisms
- Example Employer Set Projects, with briefs, tutor guidance and mark schemes
- Exemplification materials can be found here
Teaching and learning materials found here
- For both the core component and occupational specialist component, including curriculum planners, case studies, worksheets, project delivery guides and topic guides
Video Resources
- Overview of the T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction T Level (core content). Please watch the recorded webinar delivered by Pearson here.
Other resources include:
- Specification
- Training, Support and CPD videos
- Opportunities for students who are interested in pursuing a career in Medicine
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Support package to maximise student success in – Health, and Science
- Skills England progression profiles
- Occupational Maps: Skills England
Additional considerations for this course
DBS basic or enhanced checks and disqualified disclosure
Where required, students should complete this check before they start their industry placement.
Care qualification or training (Supporting Healthcare occupational specialism only)
Dependent on the nature of the industry placement, it may help students to do a relevant care qualification and / or do some relevant training.
Health check
Before starting their industry placement, students should have the relevant inoculations and immunisations. These will be determined by the employers they are doing their placement with.
Gatsby resources
Resources:
Further teaching resources to support the delivery of the Health T Level can be found here. The Technical Education Networks programme supports teachers bringing industry and the classroom closer together by delivering an engaging and enriched curriculum for their students in an evolving education landscape, drawing on expertise of specialist teachers, employers and professional bodies.
Research – Macrosequencing of curriculum:
A research project exploring the macro-sequencing of T Level curriculum. The research resource, available here, presents two models for T Level in Health and Science together with feedback on implementing diagnostic assessments, sequencing core and occupational specialism content, embedding skills into the curriculum and implementing industry placements.
AoC resources
Please find AoC's resource depository here.
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