Health and Social Care

This qualification is made up of 8 units, 4 mandatory and 4 optional units, which aim to cover a wide range of support services tasks including Housekeepers, Porters, Security, Laundry, Caterers, Domestics, Health Records and Patient Admin, Transport and Postal.

All qualifications include the following mandatory units:

• Foster people's equality, diversity and rights
• Contribute to the effectiveness of work teams
• Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security in the workplace
• Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation

There are no formal requirements but students must be working in a hospital or care environment, where they will have gathered reasonable experience.

Assessment is by production of a personal portfolio of evidence demonstrating understanding and application of the NVQ2 performance criteria.

Various level 3 NVQ courses.

To find out more information or to enrol please email distance.learning@bcot.ac.uk quoting the course reference.