HEALTH - SUPPORTING ADULT NURSING

The purpose of the T Level Technical Qualification in Health is to ensure students have the knowledge and skills needed to progress into skilled employment or higher-level technical training relevant to the T Level. The qualification consists of core principles in the first year and the occupational specialism, adult nursing in the second year. The core provides a variety of knowledge and skills relevant to the health route as a whole.

As part of achieving the overall T Level programme, students are required to complete a minimum of 315* hours industry placement. Industry placements are intended to provide students with the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for skilled employment within the health care profession.

YEAR 1 CONTENT

• Working within the health and science sector
• The healthcare sectors
• Health, safety and environmental regulations in the health and science sector
• Health and safety regulations applicable in the healthcare sector
• Managing information and data within the health and science sector
• Managing personal information
• Core science concepts
• Further science concepts in health

During the first-year students will study 2 main core components which are externally assessed and one practical-based report from a case study as part of an ESP.

YEAR 2 CONTENT

• Assist with an individual’s overall care and needs to ensure comfort and wellbeing
• Assist registered health professionals with clinical or therapeutic tasks and interventions
• Undertake a range of physiological measurements
• Assist the adult nursing team with clinical tasks
• Support individuals to meet activities of daily living
• Assist with skin integrity assessments and with the care and treatment of skin conditions

In year two students will have the opportunity to practice clinical skills within the health suite and obtain work experience in a nursing environment.

HOW AM I ASSESSED?

The core component is 100% externally assessed. External assessments are set and marked by NCFE. The external examinations and employer set project (ESP) will assess students’ core knowledge, core understanding and core skills relevant to the occupations within the health qualification. The occupational specialism components are also externally assessed through synoptic assignments, except for the observation element, which is internally marked by providers and externally moderated by NCFE. These synoptic assignments will assess the knowledge, understanding, skills and behaviours required to achieve threshold competence in the student’s occupational specialism, adult nursing.

 

POTENTIAL CAREER LINKS

Students who achieve this qualification could progress to the following-

• Employment: dental nurse, ambulance support worker, healthcare support worker in a health setting, senior healthcare support worker in a health setting, emergency care assistant, maternity support worker, new born hearing screener, domiciliary care worker, social care worker

• Higher education- Nursing, Midwifery, Occupational therapy, Radiographer, Physiotherapist, Biomedical Science and Hygienist.

• Apprenticeship- Nursing, Paramedic and radiotherapist