OTHM Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care (60 Credit)

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About Course

Credits Awarding body Course Code Delivery mode
60 OTHM, UK – an Awarding body by the UK Government’s regulator – OfQual. 603/6776/3 Online

Overview

The Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care is a comprehensive program that provides students with a foundational understanding of the health and social care sector. The objective of the OTHM Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care is to equip learners with the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills required for a career in the health and social care sector at a support worker, senior support worker or care assistant level.

Entry requirements

  • OTHM Level 3 qualifications can be offered to learners from age 18. OTHM does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications.
  • OTHM ensures that learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment criteria.
  • OTHM Centre must ensure learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will meet their needs, enable and facilitate learning and achievement enable progression. The qualification is offered in English.
  • If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency

Units covered

Mandatory Units
– Responsibilities of a Health and Social Care worker (10 credits)
– Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care (10 credits)
– Effective Communication and Ethical Practice in Health and Social Care (10 credits)
– Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Settings (10 credits)
– Person-centred Approaches in Health and Social Care Settings (10 credits)
– Effective Handling of Information in Health and Social Care Settings (10 credits)

Payment plans

1. Option 1: (£300.00 +1.5% transaction fee) and get a 5% discount on the total fee when you pay in full.

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Course Content

Unit 1: Responsibilities of a Health and Social Care worker
This aim of this unit is to provide learners with an understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working in a wide range of health and social care settings. The unit also provides learners with the knowledge required to understand working relationships, and how to work in partnership with others in health and social care settings.

  • Lecture: 1
    00:00
  • Handbook
    00:00
  • Assignment: 1

Unit 2: Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care
This aim of this unit is to provide learners with an understanding of personal development and reflective practice, both fundamental aspects to roles in health and social care. Health and social care workers have a professional duty to maintain the currency of their knowledge and skills and they do this by continuing to learn and reflecting on what they do. The unit also enables learners to explore the use of reflective practice when improving their performance and informing their development.

Unit 3: Effective Communication in Health and Social Care Practice
The aim of this unit is to explore the importance of communication in health and social care settings, and how to ensure individual needs and preferences for communication are met at all times. The unt also enables the learner to develop their understanding of good practice in respect of equality, diversity and rights in a health and social care setting.

Unit 4: Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Settings
The aim of this unit is to provide the learner with the knowledge and skills required to promote and implement health and safety in their work setting. The unit also addresses the important area of safeguarding individuals from abuse, identifying different types of abuse and the signs and symptoms that might indicate abuse is occurring.

Unit 5: Person-centered Approaches in Health and Social Care Settings
The aim of this unit is to provide learners with the knowledge and understanding required to implement and promote person centred approaches. A person centred approach is where the person is placed at the centre of the service and treated as a person first. The unit explores how the focus is on the person and what they can do, not their condition or disability.

Unit 6: Effective Handling of Information in Health and Social Care Settings
The aim of this unit is to consider issues of confidentiality and ethical practice relating to the storage and use of information. The unit also covers the knowledge and skills needed to implement and promote good practice in recording, sharing, storing and accessing information.