Level 5 HND in Healthcare Professions' Support for Adults
Course Code: P271913
Key Information
Course type
Higher Education
Campus:
Highbury Campus
Start Date:
Sept 2023
Duration:
One year
Attendance:
Full time*
Adult fee:
£6000
This course is for anyone looking to become assistant practitioners in healthcare. This qualification will train you for a range of settings, such as nursing assistant roles, care navigation, planning, and assessment.
Units 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
- planning care in practice
- meeting the needs of individuals with long-term health conditions
- team and individual leadership: mentoring and coaching others
- end of life care planning and support
- supporting mental health services.
*Please note, this qualification involves just one day a week College study, with additional independent learning and online activities.
You will need to have completed a relevant Level 3 qualification to join this course.
However, applications for this course are assessed on an individual basis, so if you don't have a relevant qualification, but have relevant experience, your application will be considered.
You will need to attend college one day a week, plus additional independent learning and online activities.
This qualification also requires at least 450 hours of work experience/placement in healthcare settings and a PLAD portfolio, including reflections on placement/workplace learning and experiences, to be completed throughout the qualification.
This is held one day a week, for one year.
This course will give you the opportunity to work in many different areas of the health and social care sector. For example:
- occupational therapy assistant practitioner
- operating department assistant practitioner
- prehabilitation and rehabilitation assistant practitioner
- maternity care assistant practitioner
- community care assistant practitioner.
