The tutors are really helpful, most of them have actually worked as an actual like social worker or care worker, so that’s good because they can give you on-hand experience and they can tell you things they have actually experienced whilst they’ve worked, and it can help you kind of learn about health and social care because you’re learning from people who have experienced it.
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Substantial placement requirement of a minimum of 45 days with an employer.
Two years in duration and equivalent to 3 A levels with UCAS points.
T Level students can progress onto Higher education at University, skilled employment or onto an apprenticeship pathway.
Course Information
Introduction
An ideal choice for those who want to progress onto skilled employment in the health service where you can put your technical skills to use, this 2-year course will give you valuable practical experience. By studying core areas such as providing person centered care, and principles of good scientific and clinical practice, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of healthcare. You will continue your learning in an occupational specialty by supporting the adult nursing, therapy, or mental health teams.
Overview
The core content for the T Level will cover the following areas:
The healthcare sector – Providing Person Centred Care Health and Wellbeing
Safety and Environmental Regulations in the Health and Science sector
Managing Information and Data within the Health and Science sector
Good Scientific and Clinical Practice Core Science concepts Infection
prevention and control in health specific settings and Managing personal
information
Occupational Specialism
Supporting the Adult Nursing Team
Assist with clinical tasks Support individuals to meet activities of daily
living
Assist with skin integrity assessments, care and treatment of skin Carry
out a range of therapeutic techniques to support Allied Health professionals
Assist with therapy support and help individuals improve their health
and/or develop or maintain skills for daily living
Prepare and maintain the therapeutic environment, equipment and resources
The breadth of content will ensure learners can apply their skills for
different purposes and in different roles
The occupational specialism unit will need to be completed as part of the
curriculum
This course is for those who would like to enter roles in healthcare such
as nursing and paramedic science, enabling progression onto Higher Education
courses.
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Discover Health & Social Care at Leeds City College | Social Science
WCAG 2.1 Doc
Location: Quarry Hill Campus
VIDEO BREAKDOWN
Visual: A group of public services and health students look out from the back of an open ambulance parked outside the Quarry Hill Campus. The video cuts to a classroom where a tutor in a green paramedic uniform presents to attentive students.
Female Speaker 1 — Student: “I want to be able to help people who may feel like they can’t be helped or feel like they don’t deserve the help. I’ve learned that you don’t always see what somebody has going on in their life.”
Visual: A student sits in a sensory room holding a large, reflective silver sphere, while nearby students engage in practical classroom exercises and anatomical study.
Female Speaker 1 — Student: “They just simple things really, but then obviously health and social care can be about helping people through big things and like things that are quite detrimental.”
Visual: Students fit protective equipment and work with interactive touchscreen kiosks in a clinical suite.
Female Speaker 2 — Student: “It covers a whole array of human development from pre-cradle right through to old age. In a way, it’s catered for everyone, I think.”
Visual: A student wears a yellow geriatric simulation suit and uses a walking cane under tutor supervision.
Female Speaker 2 — Student: “There’s so many components that you’re going to find one that you like. And I think that’s what I have found the most with this course is that it’s for everyone.”
Visual: Students examine case study notes and work with culinary ingredients in a modern training kitchen.
Female Speaker 3 — Student: “We are so, so lucky. So we’ve got the hands-on facilities, we’ve got clinical, practical clinical suite. We’ve got an anatomy table, we’ve got hoists,”
Visual: Students practice operating an overhead ceiling hoist over a hospital bed in a mock ward setting, then interact with a life-like baby mannequin.
Female Speaker 3 — Student: “we’ve got VR headsets, interactive babies. They have stuff where you can get hands-on experience even if you’re not on placement. So we can be creative…”
Visual: Students look through microscopes in a science laboratory while others engage in creative art therapy tasks.
Female Speaker 4 — Staff: “…as we wish, within our teaching and learning, we are following what employers need locally. So a college course like this is perfect in preparing people, giving them the basics of being able to provide care, compassion, talk to people…”
Visual: An ambulance is parked on campus as a paramedic tutor demonstrates emergency equipment to students outside and inside the vehicle.
Female Speaker 4 — Staff: “…by being able to use transferable skills from different placements and dealing with different people in different age groups, allows you to build on the foundations you learn in college course to be able to then take it out into practice.”
Visual: Tutors demonstrate medical equipment, CPR techniques on an interactive training station, and mobility hoists in a simulated care suite.
Female Speaker 1 — Student: “One of my favorite parts of my course was that I just enjoyed spending time with the teachers and them teaching me.”
Visual: A lecturer teaches at an interactive whiteboard in a classroom while other instructors guide practical work in clinical rooms.
Female Speaker 2 — Student: “The tutors here are like really sweet. Even the ones who aren’t my tutors will still like come up and ask how I’m doing and stuff. So helpful, like you could, no question is too silly. They’ll always be there to help you.”
Visual: Students interact with tutors in soft sensory environments and clinical skill suites.
Female Speaker 2 — Student: “Um and it helps with the learning because when you have that relationship with them, it’s kind of like just an understanding and mutual understanding that what you’re here to do, they just they understand, they get you. So college has really, really helped with like me working out how I’m actually going to get into…”
Visual: Students engage in laboratory work, sensory light therapy, and virtual reality simulations.
Female Speaker 2 — Student: “…on a lunch break. The college has helped with me finding my options. I would say definitely come to like an open event or any sort of open days that they have because they are very good and they are very like true to what a day, a normal day would look like at college.”
Visual: Low-angle exterior shot of the glass facades of Quarry Hill Campus under a clear blue sky, followed by students walking through hallways and collaborating in study lounge areas.
Female Speaker 4 — Staff: “We’re really fortunate. Sounds a bit cliché, but we get young people who are leaving school and then we see them as young adults ready to go in the world. Just to watch that growth and the confidence and their life skills develop.”
Visual: Students wear Meta Quest VR headsets with controllers in an immersive classroom, operate ceiling hoists, and examine slides through laboratory microscopes.
Female Speaker 4 — Staff: “So we use what’s called restorative practice and that is the heart of what our ethos is. We are all about giving second chances. It’s about nurturing talent, it’s about nurturing individuals and it’s about working with those individuals to get the best outcome possible.”
Visual: A close-up shot of a glowing blue sensory light orb being held in a sensory room transitions to a green screen displaying official department branding.
On-screen text & Graphics: SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE LEEDS CITY COLLEGE
Who is this course for?
School leavers who do not wish to follow the A level pathway and prefer a pathway that will enable them to progress onto skilled employment in a technical occupation, or progress onto university.
Course units/modules
The core content for the 3 T Levels will cover the following areas:
The healthcare sector
Providing person centred care
Health and wellbeing
Safety and Environmental regulations in the Health and Science sector
Managing information and data within the Health and Science sector
Good Scientific and Clinical Practice
Core Science concepts
Infection prevention and control in health specific settings
Managing personal information
Completing the following mandatory occupational
specialism
Supporting the adult nursing team
Assist with clinical tasks
Support individuals to meet activities of daily living
Assist with skin integrity assessments, care and treatment
The breadth of content will ensure learners can apply their skills for
different purposes and in different roles. There are specialism units that will
need to be completed as part of the curriculum.
Benefits and skills
T-levels are advanced level 3 courses and equivalent
to 3 A Levels. They offer a much longer period of industry placement (usually up to almost 3 months) and aimed at students who are very clear on the career path they wish to pursue. The course is a combination of in-class study and work placement.
Entry requirements
You must have a minimum of 5 GCSE’s or more at a grade 5 and above and must include English.
Maths and science.
Available apprenticeships and progression options
Nursing which includes Adult nursing, mental health nursing, childrens
nursing, learning disability nursing or midwifery.
Allied health professions including physiotherapy, dietician,occupational
therapy, podiatry, radiography, speech and language therapy.
Paramedic science.
Assessment types
Students who complete their T Level will receive an overall grade of pass, merit, distinction
or distinction* Ucas points will only be allocated to the overall T level grae. Students must achieve at least an overall pass grade to receive UCAS points. A pass grade is worth 72 points and will range to 168 points if an A* is achieved.
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