Developing health and clinical skills

During your studies on this Access to Higher Education Diploma Health course, you’ll study a range of healthcare-related subjects that will ease you into your degree.

In the first year of this course, you’ll cover the basics of how to write a report and reference your work, as well as exploring the subject of human biology and various factors that affect human health.

In your second year on the course, you will learn more about psychology, the fundamental principles of values-based healthcare, and how you can promote the health of your patients.

This course is designed to provide in-depth, relevant learning materials with the end goal of studying a healthcare degree in mind. After completing this Access to Higher Education Health course, you’ll feel fully prepared to study your chosen healthcare degree at university.

This one-year BSc (Hons) Integrated Health, Social Care and Wellbeing (Top-Up) is designed for anyone who has previously studied a relevant / related subject, up to Level 5. The course is designed to expands upon your current knowledge and understanding of the health, social care, and wellbeing sector, by now considering the industry from a different perspective. The modules are designed for you to reflect on your own leadership styles and qualities and review your current practice. Explore international healthcare and consider how we could implement positive changes in your own area of practice. This final year will prepare you to adapt to the ongoing changes happening in this dynamic sector.

Our seven-week Care Home Assistant Practitioner course will give individuals the knowledge, skills, and confidence to carry out a variety of clinical and management tasks in a care home setting.

This consists of six virtual sessions and one Face to Face practical day at our head office: Care Business Associate Training, Rufford House, 52 Bath Street, Southport, PR9 0DH.

If you can not attend the practical day at this venue, you can have a trainer attend your chosen venue for an additional cost.

The main areas of learning that the course covers are:

• Clinical observations
• Tissue viability, dressings, wounds, and pressure relief
• Venepuncture and blood sugar monitoring
• Administration of medication and syringe driver
• Catheter and stoma care
• Dysphagia
• Diabetes management

This non-accredited mini course is based on mandatory training requirements of health and social care settings. This Enrichment course is about catheters and their care. Learners will find out about the importance of good personal hygiene and infection control procedures, as well as about good handwashing techniques. The mini course is computer marked and takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Opportunities now exist for social care professionals to develop clinical skills and to work as part of the wider health and social care team as an assistant practitioner in a range of settings. They will have direct contact with patients, service users or clients providing high quality and compassionate care.

Assistant Practitioners work at a level above that of Healthcare Support Workers and gain a more in-depth understanding about factors that influence health and ill-health. This training is available via a variety of routes including an apprenticeship at Level 5.

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Resources to develop health and clinical skills including:

• Workshops and webinars
• Other online courses, including Spirometry
• Diploma level (Level 5) modules
• Degree level (Level 6) modules
• Postgraduate level (Level 7) modules

In subjects such as Enhancing Asthma Care in Professional Practicice and Transforming Dementia Care

The objective of this course is to equip healthcare professionals with all the information and skills they require to provide expert, compassionate care to patients who are in the final stages of their life.

Some key areas that this course covers includes:

• End of life healthcare standards, legislation, and guidelines.
• Person-centred end of life care plans.
• How to recognise when someone is entering the last stages of their life.
• Symptoms and pain relief during the last stages of life.
• After death care and support available for family members.
• Verification and certification of death.
• Providing sensitive and compassionate care to patients and their families.

Once you have completed this short training course you will receive a certificate that formally recognises your competence in providing specialist end of life care and death verification to nationally recognised standards.

This non-accredited mini course is based on mandatory training requirements of health and social care settings. Learners can explore the different nutrients needed in the diet to stay healthy, as well as gaining awareness of adult malnutrition. The mini course is computer marked and takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Person-centred approaches to care will be at the centre of this Frailty as a Long Term Condition Level 7 module‘s content. Successful students will develop as leaders in the delivery of person-centred care, and progress their skills and knowledge in relation to the complexity of living with frailty. It will enhance your knowledge, understanding, skills and attributes in relation to current treatment, management and risk avoidance of different aspects and challenges of frailty.

Introduction

The National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) commissioned the development of this core capabilities framework for health and care staff involved in wound care in England. The framework describes the required skills, knowledge and behaviours to improve wound care in three clinical areas (Pressure Ulcers, Lower Limb and Surgical Wounds).

This non-accredited mini course is based on mandatory training requirements of health and social care settings. This course will discuss what pressure ulcers are and the risk factors for developing them. Learners will gain an understanding of pressure area care, as well as the impact that pressure ulcers may have on individuals. The mini course is computer marked and takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Sussex Health and Care is an Integrated Care System, set up on 1st July 2022, which works in partnership across Sussex.  Watch the introductory video to find out more.   

To be fully integrated we recognise that access to shared opportunities for education, development, and careers guidance are vital.  We have created this site with that ambition at the heart.  

This elearning programme aims to support the health and care workforce in developing the knowledge and skills required to enable appropriate wound care to be delivered to people in any setting.

This elearning programme aims to support the health and care workforce in developing the knowledge and skills required to enable appropriate wound care to be delivered to people in any setting.

This non-accredited mini course is based on mandatory training requirements of health and social care settings. Learners will gain an understanding of the symptoms of sepsis, how it is managed and treated, and who is most at risk from developing it. They will also learn about basic wound care and the importance of infection control and hand hygiene.