Overview
Our Access to Higher Education courses are designed for adults aged 19 and over who are ready to return to education, change careers, or pursue a long-held ambition. Taught by highly experienced and supportive lecturers, these access to HE courses provide a fast-track progression route to university-level study.
With flexible timetables and a supportive learning environment, you can balance your access to HE diploma studies alongside work, family, and other commitments. You will develop the academic skills, subject knowledge, and confidence needed for degree-level study in areas such as healthcare, social sciences, and more.
Whether you choose to progress onto a University Level course with us or apply to a university of your choice, this rewarding pathway opens the door to new opportunities and future success.
Access to higher education courses are a great pathway in whilst gaining an access to HE diploma at the same time.
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£22,086 Entry Level Salary
£28,456 Average Salary
£39,070 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc.
- Monitors service users’ conditions by taking temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, and contributes to record keeping.
- Undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
- Helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
- Provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
- Assists with service users’ overall comfort and wellbeing.
- Serves meals to service users at table or in bed, assists with feeding if required.
- Assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.
- Responds to emergencies and provides guidance and support to care workers.
- Takes responsibility for the shift and for the service while on duty.
- Routinely oversees and monitors care workers and home carers.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£21,618 Entry Level Salary
£21,256 Average Salary
£34,157 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc..
- Monitors service users’ conditions by taking temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, and contributes to record keeping.
- Undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
- Helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
- Provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
- Assists with service users’ overall comfort and wellbeing.
- Serves meals to service users at table or in bed, and assists with feeding if required.
- Assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£25,740 Entry Level Salary
£25,882 Average Salary
£38,861 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Keeps records and writes reports.
- Maintains contact and discusses problems/progress with other staff and social workers.
- Establishes and maintains contact with members of the neighbouring community and/or the residents’ family and friends.
- May provide one-to-one counselling or group therapy.
- Manage the household (domestic duties).
- Ensures that students attend school regularly.
- Ensures that all material needs of residents are provided and endeavours to resolve any problems that they may have.
- Plans and participates in games and leisure activities to encourage emotional, social, physical and intellectual development.
- Creates friendly, secure atmosphere and tries to gain the trust and confidence of those in the home or under supervision.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£18,036 Entry Level Salary
£30,782 Average Salary
£46,218 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks and maintains vehicles to ensure they are roadworthy.
- Replenishes medical supplies in ambulance as necessary.
- Cleans and disinfects ambulance after use and carries out routine care of ambulance equipment.
- Ascertains nature of injuries and provides first aid treatment.
- Drives ambulance or accompanies driver to transport patients to hospitals or other treatment centres and homes.
- Helps patients into and out of ambulance.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£20,484 Entry Level Salary
£23,575 Average Salary
£33,952 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Changes bed linen, makes beds and tidies wards.
- Assists patients in washing, dressing, toiletry activities and general mobility.
- Distributes and serves food, assists patients in feeding and prepares snacks and hot drinks.
- Prepares patient for examination and treatment.
- Performs basic clinical tasks such as taking patients’ temperature and pulse, weighing and measuring, performing urine tests and extracting blood samples.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£23,130 Entry Level Salary
£32,774 Average Salary
£48,630 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Takes samples for clinical examination.
- Performs related medical tasks including treating hair and scalp disorders and conducting tests on glaucoma patients.
- Measures patients for, and fits them with, surgical appliances, hearing aids and artificial limbs.
- Makes dentures, crowns, bridges, orthodontic and other dental appliances according to individual patient requirements.
- Undertakes scaling and polishing of teeth, applies medicaments, carries out post-operative hygiene work and advises on preventative dentistry.
- Operates equipment to diagnose and record or treat hearing, heart, brain, lung and kidney ailments.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£30,834 Entry Level Salary
£42,179 Average Salary
£54,182 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Participates in training and supervision.
- Gives evidence in court.
- Keeps case records, prepares reports and participates in team meetings.
- Organises support and develops care plans to address service users’ needs.
- Arranges for further counselling or assistance in the form of financial or material help.
- Undertakes and writes up assessments to specified standards.
- Interviews individuals and groups to assess and review the nature and extent of difficulties.
- Liaises with other health and social care professionals and agencies to identify those in need and at risk within the local community.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£29,034 Entry Level Salary
£42,870 Average Salary
£63,554 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Briefs other medical staff when handing over the patient, and completes patient report forms describing the patient’s condition and any treatment provided.
- Transports and accompanies patients who either require or potentially require skilled treatment whilst travelling.
- Resuscitates and/or stabilises patient using relevant techniques, equipment and drugs.
- Assesses the nature of injuries, provides first aid treatment and ascertains appropriate method of conveying patient.
- Drives ambulance or accompanies driver to respond to calls for assistance at accidents, emergencies and other incidents.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£26,874 Entry Level Salary
£36,385 Average Salary
£54,245 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Teach nursing professionals clinical skills, patient care methods, and best collaboration practices.
- Informs and advises patients and their relatives on their health problems and how to care for themselves.
- Cares for the physical and emotional wellbeing of patients in their care.
- Monitors patient’s progress, administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£25,074 Entry Level Salary
£34,986 Average Salary
£51,127 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Advises on nursing care, disease prevention, and nutrition.
- Works with parents to explain procedures and health conditions and to help them care for children when they return home.
- Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Monitors children's progress, including the interpretation of the behaviour of young children too young to communicate.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£25,632 Entry Level Salary
£40,980 Average Salary
£59,886 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Provides information to patients and their families about a patient's condition, how to manage it and possible treatments.
- Works with other mental health professionals.
- Administers drugs and gives other forms of treatment.
- Monitors patient’s progress, encourages patients to participate in different therapies.
- Participates in the preparation for physical and psychological treatment of patients with mental health conditions.
- Provides day to day support for and, in some cases, physical care for patients with a variety of mental health conditions.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£24,894 Entry Level Salary
£41,201 Average Salary
£58,269 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Plans duty rotas and organises and directs the work and training of ward and theatre nursing staff.
- Monitors patient’s progress, administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Interviews and diagnoses patients, orders tests and interprets results and determines appropriate treatments.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£35,460 Entry Level Salary
£48,666 Average Salary
£71,117 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Delivers lectures, and other forms of formal training relating to nursing practice.
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.
- Advises on nursing care, disease prevention, nutrition, etc. and liaises with hospital board/management on issues concerning nursing policy.
- Plans duty rotas and organises and directs the work and training of ward and theatre nursing staff.
- Gives consultations with patients and their families to explain a patient's condition and possible treatments.
- Consults with and provides guidance to other nurses and healthcare professionals within their specialism.
- Provides specialist care in their area of expertise, assesses patients, determines treatments and conducts a variety of medical procedures.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£30,366 Entry Level Salary
£31,654 Average Salary
£46,257 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Plays an educational role for patients and families, helping to develop rehabilitation routines and advising on how to care for their condition in everyday life, disease prevention and nutrition.
- Manages own case load.
- Assists medical doctors in conducting examinations and other medical procedures.
- Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.
- Provides basic care and monitors patients' general health such as blood pressure or body temperature.
- Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services within a community care setting.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£28,206 Entry Level Salary
£44,775 Average Salary
£65,432 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Delivers lectures and other forms of training in midwifery practice.
- Plans and manages midwifery care services.
- Supervises more junior staff and directs the work of the midwifery unit.
- Advises on baby care, exercise, diet and family planning issues.
- Monitors recovery of mother in postnatal period and supervises the nursing of premature and other babies requiring special attention.
- Delivers babies in normal births and assists doctors with difficult deliveries.
- Monitors condition and progress of patient and baby throughout pregnancy.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£67,878 Entry Level Salary
£69,923 Average Salary
£133,843 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Takes overall responsibility for, supervises and directs the implementation of care and treatment plans by other healthcare providers.
- Prepares and delivers lectures, undertakes research, and conducts and participates in clinical trials.
- Performs specialist medical tasks such as surgery, anaesthetisation and diagnostic or interventional radiology.
- Provides specialist advice to generalist medical practitioners or other specialists.
- Supervises patient’s progress and advises on diet, exercise and other preventative action.
- Administers medical tests and inoculations against communicable diseases.
- Diagnoses condition and prescribes and/or administers appropriate treatment/surgery.
- Examines patient, arranges for any necessary x-rays or other tests and interprets results.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£37,944 Entry Level Salary
£65,789 Average Salary
£105,144 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Supervises the implementation of care and treatment plans by other healthcare providers.
- Prepares and delivers lectures, undertakes research, and conducts and participates in clinical trials.
- Refers patient to specialist where necessary and liaises with specialist.
- Supervises patient’s progress and advises on diet, exercise and other preventative action.
- Administers medical tests and inoculations against communicable diseases.
- Diagnoses condition and prescribes and/or administers appropriate treatment.
- Examines patient, arranges for any necessary x-rays or other tests and interprets results.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£15,768 Entry Level Salary
£31,253 Average Salary
£54,597 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Addresses conferences and publishes articles detailing the methodology and results of research undertaken.
- Undertakes analyses of data, presents results of research to sponsors, the media and other interested organisations.
- Administers questionnaires, carries out interviews, organises focus groups and implements other social research tools.
- Identifies, compiles and analyses economic, demographic, legal, political, social and other data to address research objectives.
- Traces the evolution of word and language forms, compares grammatical structures and analyses the relationships between ancient, parent and modern languages.
- Undertakes research across the humanities that furthers understanding of human culture and creativity.
- Studies society and the manner in which people behave and impact upon the world.
5 Annual Openings
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
