BTEC First Award Health and Social Care - Pearson Edexcel

Technical qualifications in health and social care provide a broad, solid foundation for progression to Level 3 and employment in the health and social care sector. This new suite of qualifications will offer learners:

• Coursework Units – ‘Human Lifespan Development’ and ‘Health and Social Care Values’.
• Exam unit – Health and Wellbeing. Looking at factors that affect health and wellbeing, interpreting health indicators and person-centred health and wellbeing improvement plans.

KS4 Course Content

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

• skills and processes, such as interpreting data to assess an individual’s health, and designing a plan to improve their health and wellbeing.
• attitudes, namely the care values that are vitally important in the sector, and the opportunity to practise applying them.
• knowledge that underpins the effective use of skills, processes, and attitudes, including human growth and development, health and social care services, and factors affecting people’s health and wellbeing.