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On our Health and Social Care courses, you will gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to work in a range of caring professions. You will learn in the College’s Care Centre of Regional Excellence (Care CoRE), where you can practise real-life care scenarios in a safe, supportive environment using industry-standard equipment, including a clinical ward and a fully equipped working flat.

You will cover essential topics such as ethics, safeguarding, and person-centred care, and have the chance to apply your learning through work placements with the NHS, GP surgeries, residential and nursing homes, special schools, and hospices. By combining practical experience with classroom learning, you’ll be ready to start a rewarding career in Health and Social Care.

Lecturer and student help to bandage a patients arm. A group of six Boston College Health & Social Car learners showing off their new uniform in the Care Core corridor. Health & Social Care students complete daily tasks such as ironing and washing up in the mock-independent living flat. A group of students helping lift a patient into bed via a hoist.

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Care CoRE

Our Care Centre of Regional Excellence (Care CoRE) is an innovative, multi-functional training facility designed to give you a realistic and immersive learning experience in Health and Social Care.

You will have access to an industry-standard clinical ward and a fully equipped working flat for social care, including a kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom, giving you the chance to experience supported living in a safe, hands-on environment.

You will get to use brand-new, cutting-edge equipment, including virtual and augmented reality, smart technologies like motion sensors, remote monitoring, and smart fridges, as well as ceiling track hoists, vital signs monitors, a diabetic foot simulator, medical screens, mannequins, iPads, and specialist furniture. Every element of the centre is designed to make your learning exciting, practical, and directly relevant to a career in Health and Social Care.

Health & Social Care flat with a bed and living area.

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“The Health and Social Care lecturers are really supportive, they take on board your goals and push you to your full potential to make sure you achieve it. I’m currently achieving star double distinctions.

The course is great at matching your personal interests; we are able to shape assignments and go on work placements relevant to our career aims. I’m due to start a placement with the NHS shadowing on a psychiatric ward for three days, it will give me a great insight.

I’ve already been offered an unconditional offer for Nottingham Trent University to study psychology. I can’t wait!”

Tilly | Health & Social Care

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£20,052 Entry Level Salary

£24,658 Average Salary

£38,547 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.

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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

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