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Healthcare Science – Assisting with Healthcare Science T Level

Develop the core knowledge and skills that are needed for entry to a range of healthcare occupations.

The course content focuses on preparing you for the next steps; either working in health care or studying at degree level. The T Level programme contains core units, preparing you to be industry-ready as well as project work with an employer and a substantial work placement. This gives you the critical all-round skills that will enable you to work in the highly regarded healthcare sector in the UK today.

You will combine classroom theory, practical learning and a minimum 45-day industry placement with an employer to make sure you have real experience of the workplace.

This T-level contains core units, preparing you to be industry-ready as well as project work with an employer and a substantial work placement. This gives you the critical all-round skills that will enable you to work in the highly regarded healthcare sector in the UK today.

Aireville Campus
Study Location
2 Years
Duration
Level 3
Course Level

Entry Requirements

  • 5 GCSEs grades 9-5 with Level 2 in a relevant subject area including Science, Maths and English GCSEs grades 9-5
  • Applicants will also need to attend an interview to assess suitability for the course
  • Interview

What you will study

All students will develop a general understanding of health and science:

  • working within the health and science sector
  • health, safety and environmental regulations
  • managing information and data
  • principles of good scientific and clinical practice
  • core science concepts including the structure of cells, tissues and large molecules, genetics, microbiology and immunology

They will also learn about topics specific to healthcare science:

  • understanding the healthcare science sector
  • further knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, diseases and disorders, genomics and medical physics
  • providing person-centred care
  • infection prevention and control
  • good scientific practice

In addition to the core content, you will study the following specialism:

Assisting with healthcare science

    • Contribute to patient care by supporting physiological, physical and clinical engineering services to produce reliable data and images for use by healthcare professionals in diagnosis and treatment
    • Contribute to patient care by supporting the collection of a range of specimens for analysis to aid diagnosis and treatment
    • Contribute to patient care by processing and analysing service user specimens in a range of life science areas and laboratory environments to produce reliable data sets for use by healthcare professionals in diagnosis and treatment

What's Next?

Careers

  • Healthcare Science Assistant
  • Radiography Assistant
  • Sterile Services Technician
Select your preferred study programme (subject). You can make 2 choices now and make a final decision in June. We will give you a conditional offer based on your predicted/actual GCSEs.
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