Level 5 HND in Healthcare Professions' Support for Adults
Course Code: P271913
Key Information
Course type
Vocational
Campus:
Highbury Campus
Start Date:
30 Aug 2024
Duration:
2 years
Attendance:
Part-time
Fees:
£9,200.00
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.
This is held one day a week, for one year.
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 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.
