HP42
Part Time
September
£3,250
Occasional public transport/parking costs for field trips DBS check
Rochdale Road Campus
Face to face via Lectures Workshops Seminars Group Discussion and debate Clinical skills practice
HND Healthcare Professions Support for England HTQ
Pearson
Take your healthcare career to the next level with the Pearson HND Healthcare Professions Support for England (Higher Technical Qualification) - a higher-level qualification designed to prepare you for advanced roles in the health and social care sector.
Building on the HNC, this level 5 course dives deeper into the theory, practice and leadership skills needed to succeed in today’s ever changing healthcare environment enabling students to build their professional, research and managerial skills that employers value.
Innovation and Improvement through Participatory Action Research – In this 30-credit unit, students explore Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a method for identifying, planning, implementing, and evaluating improvements in health and social care settings. You will learn how to engage stakeholders in co-producing change. The emphasis is on practical, collaborative change that enhances quality of care and outcomes.
Reflective Approaches in Implementing Person-Centred Practice – This unit focuses on developing your reflective practice skills to support person-centred care. You will examine person-centredness, relevant law, policies, and ethical frameworks in order to reflect critically on your own practice.
Planning Care in Practice – This unit focuses on planning, developing, and implementing care in real-world settings. Understanding assessments tools and processes, setting goals with individuals, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and monitoring outcomes to ensure delivery of safe, person-centred, evidence-informed practice in a variety of care environments.
Meeting the Needs of Individuals with Long- term Health Conditions – Long-Term health conditions often require ongoing, complex care and support. This unit explores how to care for people with health conditions such as dementia, cancer, MS, ongoing mental health illness and co-morbidities. Key topics include holistic assessment, personalisation of care, and emotional and psychological support for clients, carers and their families.
Team and Individual Leadership: Mentoring and Coaching Others – In this unit you will study leadership theories, management of teams, supporting the development of others, and how to provide effective feedback. This unit also covers the challenges and ethical considerations of leadership, coaching and mentoring.
End of Life Care Planning and Support – This unit focuses on how to plan, adapt, deliver and support compassionate care for those approaching the end of life, and their families. Legal, ethical, social and cultural dimensions are explored in relation to communication, pain management, emotional support and bereavement.
Holistic Approaches to Health Promotion – This unit emphasis promoting health across a whole population, not just treating and managing disease. Students will explore holistic health promotional stategies, behaviour change theories, prevention, and public health principles. This unit will consider health inequalities and the social determinants of health and the impact on population health.
Written Assignments/ Reports
Simulated OSCE
Portfolio
Presentations
Creation of simulated training packages
Simulated Scenario based assessments
Students are required to secure a minimum of 225 placement hours in a suitable healthcare setting.
Graduates often progress into roles such as senior support roles, senior healthcare assistants and assistant practitioner roles.
Many also choose to progress onto studying Top-up BSc (hons) Health and Social Care or professional courses in Nursing, Mental Health Nursing or other Allied Health Professional courses.
HNC Healthcare Professions support for England or related subject
GCSE Maths and English grade 4/C or level 2 equivalent
Successful Interview
Desirable – Healthcare/ Health and social care work experience