Assistant Practitioner Higher Apprenticeship: Health and Social Care FdSc

Program Overview

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Why study this course with us?

Why study this course with us?

The Health and Social Care (Assistant Practitioner) Foundation Degree will:

Prepare students to work in an effective, safe and interprofessional manner within their defined area of practice, under the instruction and supervision of a registered practitioner, within relevant legal and ethical frameworks and in accordance with agreed protocols.

Develop and promote the skills of critical, analytical and reflective thinking in students.

Promote the ethos of life-long learning and advance students' sense of personal responsibility and commitment to their ongoing education and development.

Prepare students to work as an efficient member of a multi-disciplinary team.

Ensure that Assistant Practitioner students are able to respond to the constantly changing context within which health and social care policies are being implemented.

Develop an appreciation that knowledge and understanding is acquired within an evidence-based framework.

Facilitate students to appreciate that learning can occur in both education and practice environments and assist them to make use of these opportunities.

The overarching aim of the course is to facilitate the development of the Assistant Practitioner. However, some students have completed this programme and utilised the credits (240) to progress on to other degree programmes.

This Foundation Degree is distinctive because of the unique way in which it integrates; interprofessional learning, accessibility, articulation and progression, employer involvement, flexibility and partnership working.

While none of these attributes are unique to Foundation Degrees the clear and planned integration within a single award, underpinned by work-based learning, makes the award highly distinctive.

The student has the responsibility of completing learning plans with the Learner Mentor, taking an active role in setting up progress meetings and working alongside Learner Mentor to ensure that assessment of their practice is possible.

Program Outline

Assessment

Students will be exposed to a variety of assessment methods designed to ensure that the content, outcomes and level of the modules are measured in a fair and transparent manner.

The assessment strategies employed throughout the programme are designed to ensure that students are exposed to a mix of assessment methods measuring both academic and clinical competence. The assessment methods include; reports, presentations, short answer exams, case studies, projects, peer observations and reviews.

The assessment of the practical learning outcomes for those modules with a practical element will appear in the Work Based Competency Record (WBCR). This record will demonstrate the student's progression and development throughout the programme on a clinical level.

The record comprises information on the following elements:

Competency statements

Portfolio building

Learning log

Personal development documentation

Clinical staff from the trainee assistant practitioners employing base will carry out assessment in practice against a competency framework. An apprenticeship learner mentor will be assigned to meet regularly with both the apprentice and the employer to ensure progression against the apprenticeship standards.

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