--- title: "Health and Social Care" url: "https://www.st-wilfrids.org/curriculum/subjects/health-and-social-care" school: "St. Wilfrid's R.C. College, South Shields" --- # Health and Social Care ![Art & Photography banner](https://www.st-wilfrids.org/images/gallery/IMG_9496.JPG) # Health and Social Care Curriculum Building confidence, compassion and real-world skills ![Art and Photography](https://www.st-wilfrids.org/images/lo.png) ## Why study Health and Social Care? ### What Health and Social develops - Practical knowledge of one of the fastest growing sectors in the UK - Practical skills - Preparation for careers in the health sector ### Student voice “Studying Health and Social Care has opened my eyes to different careers I never knew existed. The lessons help me to learn about real-life situations I might face in the future.” **Year 12 Pupil** - KS4 Health and Social - KS5 Health and Social Key Stage 4 Health and Social Care Cycle Overview Cycle 1 #### Year 10 – Internal Assessment #### Knowledge focus - Component 1 : Internal Assessment - Learners will explore different aspects of growth and development across the life stages using the physical, intellectual, emotional and social (PIES) classification. #### Key skills - The life stages and key characteristics in the physical, intellectual, emotional and social (PIES) development classifications and the different factors that can affect an individual’s growth and development. - Understand human growth and development across life stages and the factors that affect it #### Assessment - Extended writing tasks – To allow students to apply knowledge and understanding of human growth and development across life stages and the factors that affect this, and how individuals deal with life events #### Key Vocabulary - Characteristic - Life stage - Growth - Classification - Development - Infancy - Milestone - Lifestyle - Menopause - Oestrogen - Contentment - Self-image - self-esteem - Chronic - Physiological - Inheritance - Gender role #### #### Year 11 – Operations #### Knowledge focus - Operations #### Key skills - Understanding more complex business functions – operations management. - Understand how products are produced and what affects production methods. - Analysing efficiency and ways t improve productivity. - Evaluating quality methods. - Applying knowledge of supply chain and logistics to business scenarios. - Improving extended writing skills for longer exam questions. #### Assessment - Formative Assessment lesson by lesson. - Summative: Two pieces of assessed homework. - One assessed end of topic assessment. #### Key Vocabulary - Operations - Productivity - Quality control/assurance. - Supply chain - Logistics - Batch - Flow Cycle 2 #### Year 10 – Internal Assessment #### Knowledge focus - Component 1 – Internal Assessment - Students will explore the different events that can impact on individuals’ physical, intellectual, emotional and social (PIES) development and how individuals cope with and are supported through changes caused by life events. #### Key skills - Different life events and how individuals can adapt or be supported through changes caused by life events - Understand how individuals deal with life events #### Assessment - To complete Component 1 - Pearson Set Assignment (PSA) - Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the PIES growth and development through the life stages. - Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the impact of different factors on PIES growth and development through the life stages. - Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the impact of life events on PIES growth and development. - Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how individuals adapt to life events #### Key Vocabulary - Health - Wellbeing - Relationship - Life circumstance - Adapt - Professional - Respite #### #### Year 11 – External Assessment #### Knowledge focus - Component 3 – External Assessment - Students will explore the factors that affect health and wellbeing, learning about physiological and lifestyle indicators, and person-centred approaches to make recommendations to improve an individual’s health and wellbeing. #### Key skills - How factors can affect an individual’s current health and wellbeing - How physiological indicators and an individual’s lifestyle choices determine physical health - The use of the person-centred approach in providing effective high quality care #### Assessment - Formative Assessment- lesson by lesson. - Summative Assessment- Topic tests - Mock examination #### Key Vocabulary - Holistic, Hierarchy - Acute - Short term - Long term - Psychological - Addictive - Disability - Impairment - Illness - Monitor - Addiction - Bullying - Coerce - Intimate - Savings - Pollution - Life event - Arteries - Targets - Collaborate - Compassion - Norm Cycle 3 #### Year 10 – Component 2: Internal Assessment #### Knowledge focus - Component 2: Internal Assessment - Learners will explore health and social care services and how they meet the needs of service users. They will also study the skills, attributes and values required when giving care. #### Key skills - Health and social care conditions, how they can be managed by the individual and the different health and social care services that are available - The barriers and obstacles an individual may encounter to accessing health care services and how these can be overcome #### Assessment - Extended writing tasks – To allow students to apply knowledge and understanding of different types of health and social care services and barriers to accessing them, and the skills, attributes and values required to give care #### Key Vocabulary - Support -Formal, Informal - Care - Primary, Secondary - Tertiary - Tea - Identity - Residential - Domiciliary - Stigma - Confidentiality #### #### Year 11 – Component 3: External Assessment #### Knowledge focus - Component 3: External Assessment - Students will learn how to interpret physiological and lifestyle indicators and what they mean for a person’s state of health. They will also study how this information is used to recommend appropriate actions for improving a person’s health and wellbeing. #### Key skills - Recommendations and actions to improving health and wellbeing and the barriers or obstacles individuals may face when following recommendations and the support available to overcome. #### Assessment - Formative Assessment- lesson by lesson. - Summative Assessment- Topic tests #### Key Vocabulary - Barriers - Psychological - Financial - Time constraints - Resources - Targets - Obstacles Key Stage 5 Health and Social Care Cycle 1 #### Year 12 – Unit FO90 #### Knowledge focus In this unit students will learn the key topics that are important to develop underpinning knowledge and understanding relevant to health and social care. Topics include: Topic 1 - Equality, diversity, and rights in health and social care settings Topic 2 - Managing hazards, health and safety in health and social care settings Topic 3 - Legislation in health and social care settings Topic 4 - Best practice in health and social care setting #### Key skills - Based on student knowledge, students will be required to meet the following performance objectives - Show knowledge and understanding - Apply knowledge and understanding - Analyse and evaluate knowledge, understanding and performance #### Assessment - Formative assessment lesson by lesson - Topic tests - Mock test #### Key Vocabulary - Diversity - Equality - Rights - Discrimination - Hazard - Legislation - Safeguarding - Person centred #### #### Year 13 – Unit 3- External assessment #### Knowledge focus This unit introduces students to health, safety and security in health and social care. They will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to allow them to maintain a safe working environment for themselves and their colleagues and individuals who require care and support. Students will learn how legislation, policies and procedures work to reduce risks in health and social care and the consequences of not following them. They will also learn how to respond to different incidents and emergencies within health and social care settings. #### Key skills - Learning will be context-based where learners will be expected to demonstrate their understanding through answering questions that require skills of analysis and evaluation in particular contexts. - Learners will be required to analyse situations then make recommendations, and justify, the correct course of action to take for a practitioner, an individual who require care and support or the service provider. #### Assessment - Formative assessment lesson by lesson - Topic tests - Mock test #### Key Vocabulary - Hazard - Regulator - Risk Assessment - Manual handling - Barred list, Policy - Procedure, Induction - Mandatory - Pathogen #### Cycle 2 #### Year 12 – FO91 #### Knowledge focus Students will learn about the arrangement of body systems and the structure and function of the component parts. They will then learn about key processes within each body system, that enable them to function properly. Students will then explore conditions affecting these systems, specifically learning about the biological basis, monitoring, treatment and impact on lifestyle and independence. Topic 1 – Cardiovascular system Topic 2 – Respiratory system Topic 3 – Digestive system Topic 4 – Musculoskeletal system Topic 5 – Control and regulatory systems Topic 6 – Reproductive system #### Key skills - Based on student knowledge, students will be required to meet the following performance objectives - Show knowledge and understanding - Apply knowledge and understanding - Analyse and evaluate knowledge, understanding and performance #### Assessment - Formative assessment lesson by lesson - Topic tests - Mock test #### Key Vocabulary - Composition - Function - Structure - Exchange - Respiration - Absorption - Skeletal - Muscular - Homeostasis - Reproductive #### #### Year 13 – Unit 1 #### Knowledge focus Students will be introduced to the many different relationships that you will encounter within the health and social care sector. They will learn to apply communication and relationship building skills in a practical way, considering how different factors, including context, can impact on the building of positive relationships. Students will also explore the concept of the person-centred approach which will help with relationship building skills. #### Key skills - Students will complete a NEA where students must meet set assessment criteria, where they are required to Demonstrate, Explain, Analyse and Assess within their written course work. #### Assessment - Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills you learn by completing applied or practical assignments set by OCR #### Key Vocabulary - Supervision - Mentoring - Tone - Pitch - Body language - Dialect - Impairment - Race - Religion - Diversity - Beliefs - Values - Stereotypes - Reflect #### Cycle 3 #### Year 12 – FO92 Person centred Care #### Knowledge focus Students will learn the principles and values that underpin a person-centred approach to care and the practical tools that can be used to develop care plans for individuals. They will explore how to communicate in health and social care, how to build relationships and the barriers that need to be overcome to achieve person-centred care. Students will learn how to write outline care plans to suit individuals, using person-centred approaches and develop their reflective practice skills. Topic 1 - Taking a person-centred approach Topic 2 - Meeting needs and providing support in a person-centred way Topic 3 - Communication skills needed to offer person-centred care #### Key skills - Students will complete a NEA where students must meet set assessment criteria, where they are required to Demonstrate, Explain, Analyse and Assess within their written course work. #### Assessment - Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills you learn by completing applied or practical assignments set by OCR #### Key Vocabulary - Independence - Approach - Preference - Impairment - Communication #### Year 13 – Unit 9 #### Knowledge focus Students will develop an understanding of learning disabilities and consider issues involved in providing support for people with a learning disability and their family. 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