UNISON Ulearn Northern Ireland

The Open University K101 is being run in partnership with UNISON and the Southern Trust. This is the updated version of the popular K100 course. Information sessions are being held in St Lukes Armagh, Daisy Hill, Newry and Craigavon Hospital. Deadline for applications is now Friday August 15th.

Blocks of learning include

Who cares? looks at the range of formal and informal care, exploring the diversity and sensitivity of care situations
Working with life experience explores the impact of care needs and care services on people’s sense of identity and self-worth.
Diverse communities and resources for care asks how a community can respond to the needs of different groups of people.
People and places: contexts of care explores the settings where care takes place, exploring their physical, social and psychological impact and the extent to which they are enabling or disabling.
Making care safer? examines how care can go wrong and what individuals can do to try to prevent this.
The shaping of care services in the UK examines care policies at the national level.

This course will be supported by release from your employer, a UNISON Study Skills for K101 course and an exam preparation day. This course is first year university level, awards a stand alone certificate and contributes 60 credits towards a university degree. Previous participants on the course have included staff such as health care assistants, home care workers, staff from domestic services, admin, security, portering and catering staff. Some learners have used their study to help access places on the workbased nursing programme, others are working towards a degree and some just enjoyed the course itself. You can read more about how learners got on in the ‘Stories’ section of this website.

Information sessions will take place on

17th June 10 - 11am & 11 - 12pm in Callan Room in main building St. Lukes, Armagh
17th June 2-3pm in Committee Room 1 Daisy Hill Hospital
20th June 10am - 11am & 11 - 12pm in Room 26 1st floor, College of Nursing Craigavon Hospital

Information and an application pack can be downloaded here