Health and Social Care

Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship (Level 3)

Apprenticeship
Health and Social Care
Flexible
Study Mode

Apprenticeship

Start Date, Location

Flexible, Flexible

Duration

2 years

Cost

£.00

per academic year.
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Course Overview

Senior Healthcare Support Workers help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people. As an experienced support worker, you carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical or therapeutic tasks, providing high quality, compassionate healthcare.You may work in a range of services such as hospitals, day case units, birth centres or midwifery led units, someone’s home, nursing or care homes, hospices, schools, prisons, GP surgeries; working in partnership with individuals, families, carers and other service providers.

This is an occupational qualification for learners who work in Healthcare Support roles in England, in the following areas of healthcare provision:

Adult Nursing
Maternity Support
Theatre Support
Children and Young People
Mental Health
Allied Health Profession Therapy Support

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On completion of this apprenticeship you will be a competent and job-ready Senior Healthcare Support Worker. You will be caring and compassionate, honest, conscientious and committed.?You will treat people with dignity, respecting individual’s diversity, beliefs, culture, needs, values, privacy and preferences, show respect and empathy for those you work with, have the courage to challenge areas of concern and work to best practice, be adaptable, reliable and consistent, show discretion, show resilience and self-awareness and show supervisory leadership.

You will learn to assist registered healthcare practitioners with clinical or therapeutic tasks, promote physical and mental health and wellbeing, recognise issues and deteriorations in mental and physical health, and report and respond to these appropriately. This is just a brief example of what you will learn on this apprenticeship.
Before enrolment all applicants will have an informal interview where we will outline the commitment, engagement and self-study requirements of the apprenticeship, and the resources and support available from the college. Applicants will have the opportunity to discuss their learning needs and to ask any questions.

Apprentices aged 19+ at enrolment are no longer required to achieve Level 2 maths and English (GCSE Grade C/4, Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent) in order to achieve their apprenticeship. If you do not hold maths and English qualifications at Level 2, you and your employer will have the option to opt in or out of achieving these alongside your apprenticeship.
For apprentices under 19 years on enrolment, it is mandatory for them to hold a Level 2 qualification in both maths and English in order to complete the apprenticeship.

For the *Study Skills unit which consists of a mandatory small-scale research project apprentices will need to carry out independent research and reference their resources correctly.
As part of the on-boarding process we may ask you to complete an additional reading and writing assessment.

If an employer has agreed to support you on this apprenticeship, contact the Apprenticeship team and we’ll get you started. Email apprenticeships@wiltshire.ac.uk.
All units are assessed by a designated assessor using a range of methods. This will include direct observations in the workplace and written assignments.

You must complete the NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support and the Care Certificate alongside this apprenticeship.

An End Point Assessment (EPA) must take place at the end of this apprenticeship in order to complete.
Duration of the course is 24 months.

All learners must complete 20% off the job training as part of the apprenticeship requirements.

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