Healthcare Professions' Support for England
Entry requirements
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
T Level
Nottingham College welcomes applicants with T Levels for admission to our Level 4 and 5 programmes.
UCAS Tariff
Typical Offer: Applicants should normally possess (or expect to achieve) a minimum of 48 UCAS tariff points. All applicants will receive due consideration and a wide variety of educational and other lifetime experiences can be taken into account.
About this course
**Equivalent to the first year of a university degree, this new Level 4 Higher National Certificate is widely recognised both in the UK and overseas. The course has been designed to offer a special emphasis on practical skills development, alongside knowledge and understanding of health and social care in the UK which is also relevant to healthcare on an international basis.**
**The HNC provides a thorough grounding in key concepts in healthcare professions' support including: law, evidence-based practice, health inequalities, reporting and record-keeping in health practice. The course includes contemporary themes and current practice. All students undertake healthcare-based work placements to develop their own professional practice and meet the requirements to work in the sector.**
**About the course**
This course will be based at the college's new £58 million City Hub campus, near Nottingham train station. The campus features state of the art teaching and learning facilities, science laboratories, with a restaurant, cafe, performing arts venue and specialist healthcare facilities including a simulated hospital ward, which provides students with a realistic learning environment that mimics a hospital environment.
Assistant practitioners work as part of the more comprehensive health and social care team and have direct contact with patients, service users or clients, providing high-quality and compassionate care.
**Higher National Certificate (Level 4) modules may include:**
-Law, Policy and Ethical Practice
-Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values in Health and Social Care Practice
-Supporting the Individual Journey through Integrated Health and Social Care
-Fundamentals of Evidence-based Practice
-Principles of Health Education
-Effective Healthcare Practice Using Maths
-Applied Anatomy and Physiology
**Compulsory work placement**
This course includes a minimum requirement of 225 hours’ of work placement or experience in health and/or social care settings.
**Assessment**
A wide variety of innovative and traditional methods will be used including: practical assignments, portfolios of evidence, data analysis, case studies, written reports, essays, presentations, work-based evidence with employer statements.
**Qualification awarded:**
Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Healthcare Professions' Support for England - subject to validation
**Bursaries**
We want our courses to be accessible to students from any background, so we’ve put together a cash support package in the form of non-repayable bursaries to provide financial help where it’s really needed. Details for 2024-25 will be advertised once approved by the university regulator – the Office for Students (OfS). Please check our website - www.nottinghamcollege.ac.uk - for more information.
**Your career and progression**
Students from the Level 4 HNC can progress to the Level 5 Higher National Diploma course.
Possible careers in this sector are: healthcare support worker, nursing assistant/auxiliary roles in a range of areas of specialism, e.g. adult and community nursing, clinical support, midwifery support, rehabilitation services. Assistant practitioners (sometimes called associate practitioners) work in many branches of the NHS including: operating departments, prehabilitation/rehabilitation, maternity and community care.
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