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Health & Social Care Courses

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Getting Ahead

Health & Social Care Courses at South Downs Campus

Are you studying Health & Social Care NCFE CACHE Level 1 Diploma, CACHE Level 2 Extended Diploma or Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma? If so, you’re in the right place!

Welcome to Health and Social Care. We are looking forward to meeting you when you start your course. Below is an activity to prepare you for study at College and some links to interesting video clips and reading material.

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Design your own game or activity to undertake with residents at a local care home.

You must be able to enjoy studying and caring for all age groups to choose to study Health and Social Care. Therefore, we would like you to provide a plan for a creative therapeutic game or activity for residents at a local care home before starting this course. This will identify what you like and what interests you have!

Design your own tabletop activity/game that you can undertake with a group of four or five residents in a local care home. You need to design an activity/game that can be completed in half an hour, on a table, and you need to include:

  • Title of activity
  • A detailed explanation and plan of the activity/game
  • Time needed to complete the activity
  • Resources needed
  • How will the activity be introduced to the participants?
  • What support will the participants need to complete the activity/game?
  • What are the cognitive, physical, emotional and social benefits of the activity/game?
  • How would you adapt the activity/game to ensure inclusion for all residents (e.g. for residents who have poor mobility, hearing or eyesight)?

We would like you to write a 200-300 word explanation of why you have chosen this activity/game. Communicate your thoughts and ideas as best you can.

Complete the Health and Social Care study skills booklet to help you to develop skills that will be needed when you start your course.

*This is a representation of your learning space and may not be the exact room you will be using

Resources

Meet your Lecturers

  • health and social care lecturer kim dobson

    Kim Dobson

  • health and social care lecturer lynda pinhorne

    Lynda Pinhorne

  • Sarah Growcott

  • Ally Rees

We look forward to seeing you soon!

The teaching and support was absolutely brilliant, they couldn’t have done anything more or anything better, if I had any questions my lecturers would always stay behind to help me if I needed it and their emails were always open, it was second to none. This college is the best by far.

Amber Searle, BTEC student

I’m really happy and pleased with my grades. I really loved my time at the college, I have also made lots of friends, it’s a really nice place to be, I don’t want to leave.

Lauren Piper, A Level student

I would say it’s a college that really balances academia with fun, there is lots of extra-curricular stuff that you can get involved in. It has a really good work/life balance.

Laura Hagedorn, A Level student