Level 3 Health + Social Care Diploma
This course is thoughtfully structured into ten manageable units, each exploring key aspects of the field.
Level 3 Health + Social Care Diploma Entry Requirements
All students must be 16 years of age and above to enrol on our Level 3 Health + Social Care Diploma course.
Level 3 Diploma courses require a minimum prior learning to GCSE standard in order that students can manage their studies and the assumed knowledge within course content.
Study Hours
Approximately 20 hours per unit.
Assessment
Optional coursework and final examination.
Enrolment
Please note that you can enrol on this course at any time.
Course Length
1 Year.
Endorsed By
Students will have the option to choose the awarding body of their course.
This course has been endorsed by :
Quality Licence Scheme: https://qualitylicencescheme.co.uk/
Or
Accord: https://accord.ac/
These coursesā awarding bodies are recognised for their high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example, progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the Quality Licence Scheme website or the Accord website
Progression
This Level 3 Health + Social Care Diploma course can be used to gain entry to a Level 4 Diploma or higher.
CourseĀ Content
Module 1: Growth and development
The initial module focuses on the physical and psychological processes of human growth and development from birth to old age, aiming to comprehend healthy maturation. While there’s no ‘norm,’ statistical indices provide an average scale for measuring health. Recent changes include the emergence of super-obese children. It emphasises the need for experience and discretion, as babies born to smaller-built parents might seem underweight. The module also examines the role of genetic inheritance, considering social, environmental, and lifestyle factors. It explores concepts like health promotion, user control, and well-being in the context of development.
Module 2: Care and Communication: Part one
Effective care delivery relies on excellent communication skills fostering positive interactions among colleagues, service users, and others. This module examines various communication types crucial in diverse care settings, including verbal and non-verbal methods, addressing barriers, written reports, confidentiality, listening skills, and empathetic approaches. It explores building positive relationships through effective management and understanding others’ needs. Additionally, the module delves into how the personal values and beliefs of caregivers can impact behaviour, attitude, and approach toward service users.
Module 3: Care and communication: Part two
This module deeply explores who requires care, who provides it, and potential variations at different life stages. Emphasising the impact of when, how, and to whom care is administered on its quality, it recognises the importance of timely care, especially for children. The learning process involves addressing challenging questions, barriers, and issues, such as ensuring equal care levels for immigrants, the disabled, the mentally unwell, and those unable to express their needs. The module examines care provision and the concept of service users in the UK, tackling rights, legalities, laws, responsibilities, and avenues for obtaining appropriate care. It also delves into how caregivers can ensure a positive experience for all service users.
Module 4: Focus on social issues
The optimal approach to caring for an individual is holistic, and this module explores a range of available services, along with the roles and responsibilities of care practitioners. It discusses factors influencing the social and health service experience, including relationships, lifestyle, social class, and gender issues. Demographics’ impact on care needs and structured provision is examined, as are the concepts and implications of an ageing society, mental health, disability, and discrimination relevant to health and social care issues. The module also evaluates the effectiveness of legislative and compliance structures and the appropriateness and accessibility of care provisions.
Module 5: Focus on wellbeing
Wellbeing, a dynamic state encompassing physical and psychological aspects, is explored in this module. It delves into ways of measuring and assessing well-being, considering factors like body functioning, emotional state, age, nutrition, and intelligence. The module addresses the physical, psychological, social, and emotional dimensions of well-being, including interactions with others and seeking support. It examines activities within diverse care settings that contribute to awareness, positive recovery, and rehabilitation. Basic physiology and anatomy relevant to care, practitioners, are covered to enable informed decisions tailored to the individual’s support needs.
Module 6: Public health and the UK care system
This module provides a concise overview of the history and reform of the UK’s care and public health system, examining their interconnected evolution. It investigates how current frameworks and diverse service provisions meet the needs of a large population, exploring their planning and implementation. The module introduces concepts of data interpretation, nutritional standards, trend identification, and recommendations crucial for public health planning. Legalities related to infectious diseases and interventions are covered, illustrating crisis management during events like epidemics or pandemics. The module also explores how individual needs are planned for and met through a holistic and integrated support structure.
Module 7: Health promotion
This module delves into the government’s focus on education and health strategies, recognising them as fundamental rights. It goes beyond preventing illness, addressing the promotion of social, physiological, and psychological well-being, and caring for the unwell. The module explores health promotion and well-being concepts, detailing the implementation of strategies, frameworks, and recommendations through various agencies and approaches. It examines the dissemination of health promotion information in care settings and its impact on well-being. The module also covers examples of health promotion activities, past theories, and the planning, execution, monitoring, and evaluation of these activities for effectiveness and improvement.
Module 8: Health and Disease
This module emphasises the prevention of ill health and care for the unwell in health promotion and social care. It explores diverse definitions of health, delving into fundamental concepts of ill health, the complexity of diseases, symptoms, classifications, common diagnostic tests, and the reasons behind diseases. The module details the diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions in the context of care settings and responsibilities. It also examines prevention strategies, particularly for notifiable diseases, and their rationale.
Module 9: Research in health and social care
This module focuses on learning research methods and techniques to establish policies and strategies in health and social care based on predictions and trends. It explores the significance of various research types within scientific and practice-based elements of the field, detailing how such research is conducted, methods of data collection, and data interpretation. The module emphasises using this data to influence future public policy and care provisions. It addresses the importance of ethical and well-constructed research to elevate standards in the best and quality care, discussing how to interpret and implement best practices based on evidence.
Module 10: The psychology of health and social care
This final module explores psychology’s role in understanding how people think, behave, and feel, emphasising its influence on behavioural change in social and healthcare contexts. It examines different behaviours encountered in care settings and how psychological approaches tailored to these behaviours contribute to positive outcomes for service users. The module delves into various psychological theories within the context of communication, problem-solving, and finding suitable approaches to user needs, ensuring success in care provision.
Requirements
- All students must be 16 years of age and above to enrol on our Level 3 Health + Social Care Diploma course. Level 3 Diploma courses require a minimum prior learning to GCSE standard in order that students can manage their studies and the assumed knowledge within course content.