Route to Health Professions SCQF Level 6

Course description

If you`re looking to pursue a career in a health profession which is both challenging and rewarding then this course is for you. You may be a school leaver who as yet, does not have the required entry qualifications to go direct to University. The course is a fulltime course where you will be given the necessary education to make an application through UCAS to progress onto the first year of a Nursing degree or onto HNC Healthcare Practice which could lead to an Allied Health Profession related degree.

What you will learn

Throughout this course, you will be studying a wide range of subject areas that will ensure that you have the best foundations to progress to the next stage of your studies.

• Communications 4
• Literature 1
• Higher Care (Human Development and Behaviour Social Influences and Values and Principles) - Units only not SQA Higher
• Higher Human Biology- Units only not SQA Higher
• Numeracy
• IT
• Caring for People with Dementia
• Mental Health Issues

The above units may be subject to change.

Learning outcome

• Apply through UCAS to one of the Universities across Britain that run Nursing Degree programmes
• Progress onto a relevant HNC course

Please note that this course would not normally give you access to Midwifery or Child Health Degree Programmes

• Work as a health or clinical support worker
• Social care assistant/support worker
• Other health/social care work