K101 Open University Course - Recruiting Now

7 Jun 2011

Belfast, Southern, Western, SE Trust and Northern Trusts in partnership with UNISON have just opened recruitment for the Level 4 K101 Open University Introduction to Health & Social Care certificate. Deadline for applications is 15th July 2011.

The course will run from late September to June 2012.

The K101 Introduction to Health & Social Care is the updated version of the popular K100. 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.

You can download an application pack at here