Health and Social Care

Autumn Term
Unit 1: Promoting Quality Care and Communication
The unit introduces candidates to factors affecting the quality of life; the care principles, skills and techniques required by both formal and informal carers to treat individuals well within a range of care settings.
The content of this unit includes:
• Factors affecting the quality of life of individuals
• Principles of care
• Caring skills and techniques
• Communication
• Barriers to communication and quality care
• Rights and responsibilities of providers and individuals
Revision and development of examination technique

Spring Term
External assessment of Unit 1 (one examination of 1½ hours duration)

Unit 2: Promoting Good Health
This unit will enable students to gain knowledge and understanding of the factors that influence an individual’s health and well-being, and how recent government initiatives promote good health.
The content of this unit includes:
• Perspectives of health and well-being
• Factors that affect health and well-being
• Preventative measures to avoid ill health
• Job roles of key workers in Health Promotion
• Techniques used within Health Promotion
Produce a portfolio evidencing the planning, preparation and execution of a small health promotion campaign aimed at a specific target group:
• Carrying out the campaign and recording results
• Collecting and interpreting feedback from the participants
Documented evidence of campaign

Summer Term
Evaluation health promotion campaign, to include:
• The success in meeting aims and objectives
• The appropriateness of the planning and execution of the campaign (including materials produced, resources used, chosen approaches) to the target group
• Analysis of feedback
• How the benefits could be measured within the target group both in the short and long-term
• Evaluation of the success of the campaign, including a self-evaluation
• Valid recommendations for improvement and for extension work
• Evaluation of the suitability of this campaign for use by relevant key workers
Submission of unit for internal assessment and external moderation.

Autumn Term
Unit 7: Provision of Health, Social Care and Children's Service
In this unit, candidates will need to study the main health, social care and children’s services to meet individual needs.
The content of the unit includes:
• Service provision in the local area
• Meeting individual needs
• Practitioner roles within multi-disciplinary teams
• Quality assurance procedures
• Effects of national policy and legislation on service provision

Spring Term
Produce a report based on a coursework assignment, 10 hour duration and set by WJEC.
Work should include evidence of the following:
1. Aims and investigation.
2. Research and analysis of data.
3. Evaluation to include:
• Procedures used to collect data.
• Findings of the study.
Unit 12: The Influences of Food and Fitness on Health and Well-being
The aim of the unit is to increase the knowledge and understanding of a range of different aspects relating to the diet and fitness of individuals at different life stages.
The content of this unit includes:
• The main nutrients in food – their source and function
• The positive effects of physical activity on the physical, psychological/ mental and social health of individuals
• Current dietary and physical activity guidelines initiated to promote the health of the nation
• Role of a healthy diet and regular physical activity on the prevention/ regulation of certain diseases
Designing suitable diets and physical activity programmes for individuals

Summer Term
Produce a written report that examines the results of a specially designed diet and physical activity programme on two individuals for a minimum period of four weeks.
The report will be based on primary and secondary research and the individuals should be at different life stages.
Both individuals will follow a specifically designed diet and physical activity programme but one individual will have a programme that focuses on a dietary need whilst the other individual will have a physical activity/fitness need.
Submission of unit for internal assessment and external moderation.