FdA Health and Social Care (Assistant Practitioner: Independent Route)

It provides an excellent platform for various roles in care homes, residential homes, voluntary organisations, special schools and agencies providing domiciliary care. Some key transferable skills offered by this course include communication, teamwork, negotiation, presenting ideas and arguments, working independently, and reflecting on and reviewing progress.

100 UCAS points Any subjects are acceptable at Level 3. You should also have four GCSEs at grade C or above or grade 4 to 9 (or equivalent) in any subjects. Entry to this course is also available to applicants with extensive appropriate work experience in the health and social care sector. If you don’t possess the academic qualifications listed above but have extensive appropriate work experience, we’ll be delighted to consider your application. You’ll be interviewed and complete a diagnostic exercise as part of the application process. You’ll also need to meet the other non-academic entry requirements listed below. Admission to this programme is only available to candidates who meet the following criteria. 1) You must be employed for a minimum of 23 hours per week in a role relevant to the programme. 2) You must have the right to live and work in the UK. 3) Your employer will need to agree to you participating in the programme. If you work for a large organisation in health and social care, then you may want to enquire about the possibility of studying towards the FdA Health and Social Care (Assistant Practitioner: Higher Apprenticeship Route) instead. If you don’t have an appropriate work placement in the health and social care sector but otherwise meet the entry requirements for this course, please consider our BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care or HND Health and Social Care courses. Every application will be considered on its individual merits. We'll consider applications where appropriate work experience can be demonstrated in lieu of, or in addition to, the published academic qualifications in line with the University’s Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL) procedures. This course involves regulated activity so you must gain an Enhanced Disclosure certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) before starting your studies. Charges are payable to cover the cost of the DBS Enhanced Disclosure application and annual registration with the online (Normally your sponsoring organisation will organise this.) Please note that your DBS must have been completed within three years of the course start date.

Apprentices will need to be employed by your organization for a minimum of 30 hours per week. Your organization will also need to commit to sponsoring apprentices to complete this qualification.