Healthcare Practice
About this course
**Course Information**
This course will equip you with the healthcare practice skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to achieve high performance in the global health and social care environment. The training opportunities on the programme will prepare you for a wide range of careers in healthcare, including:
healthcare support and assistant roles
nursing assistant/auxiliary roles
care navigation, planning and assessment roles
public health, health promotion and non-clinical healthcare supervisory or lower management roles
You'll gain an insight and understanding into the diversity of roles within the healthcare sector, recognising the importance of collaboration at all levels.
This qualification has been designed for those working as or seeking to become trainee assistant practitioners and, ultimately, assistant practitioners in healthcare. Assistant practitioners work in diverse healthcare environments, including the NHS and independent sector, e.g. primary, secondary and tertiary care, diagnosis, therapeutic inpatient and outpatient departments, theatres, GP practices, community settings, rehabilitation services. They support a wide range of practitioners, including registered nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, diagnostic radiographers, physiotherapists, general practitioners, doctors of medicine, surgeons. This is not an exhaustive list.
**Key Features**
Pearson BTEC Higher National qualifications in Healthcare Practice for England offer:
● A stimulating and challenging programme of study that will be both engaging and
memorable for students.
● The essential subject knowledge that students need to progress successfully into
further study or the world of work.
● A simplified structure: students undertake a substantial core of learning
● Refreshed content that is closely aligned with employer, professional body and
higher education needs.
● Assessments that consider cognitive skills (what students know) along with
affective and applied skills (respectively, how they behave and what they can do)
● A varied approach to assessment that supports progression.
● Specification – to ensure that all stakeholders (e.g. professional bodies, universities, colleges and students) can feel confident in the integrity and value of the qualification frameworks.
● Qualification designed to meet the needs and expectations of students aspiring to
work in healthcare.
● A pathway into employment for apprentices in relevant healthcare settings
through completion of the HND element of the Pearson BTEC Higher National in
Healthcare Professions’ Support for England qualification, which is recognised as
meeting the qualification requirements for the Healthcare Assistant Practitioner
Higher Apprenticeship Standard.
A thematic approach to learning in Health and Social Care. The Pearson BTEC Higher National for the healthcare sector recognises that there are employability-related knowledge and skills that underpin effective practice across students’ learning that are sector-specific. These are embedded across units in the Healthcare Professions’ Support for England qualification.
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