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What You Will Study

This is split into Core knowledge and Specialist knowledge. Core topics include managing personal information, health and wellbeing and providing person-centred care.

We run the Supporting Healthcare Core and offer the Supporting the Adult Nursing Team and Supporting the Care of Children and Young People Occupational Specialisms.

  • How You Will Be Assessed
    • Core Paper A – Health – End point assessment
    • Core Paper B – Science (including biology, chemistry and physics) – End point assessment
    • Employer Set Project – A series of assessments over a two-week window, under controlled conditions and assessed by the exam board

    You will complete an employer-set project. This will ensure that you have the opportunity to apply core knowledge and skills to develop a substantial piece of work in response to an employer-set brief. The brief and tasks are contextualised around an occupational area relating to Health.

    Second year assessment:

    Synoptic Assessment. You will complete an occupational specialism component which includes a case study assessment, two practical activities assessments: one for the core Supporting healthcare, and one for the occupational specialism and finally, a professional discussion.

    On full completion you will receive a T Level statement of achievement detailing the individual grades for the different elements.

  • Entry Requirements

    5 GCSEs at Grade 9-4, including English, Maths and Science.

  • Further Study

    On completion of the T Level, previous students have progressed to University to undertake degrees in health and social care related topics such as: Adult, Child and Mental Health Nursing, Psychology, Health and Well-being, Criminology, Youth and Ffamily Wworking, Social work, Diagnostic Radiography, Midwifery, Nursing, Community Development, Operating Department Practitioner and Podiatry.

    Wakefield College offers a FdSc Health and Wellbeing and BSc (Hons) Health and Wellbeing (Top-Up).