Health & Social Care(Level 2)

Taster Workbook

Welcome to you from all of us in Health and Social Care at New College Durham

We look forward to meeting you in the next academic term of 2020/2021

Name:

Introduction to Level 2 Health and Social Care

Welcome to level 2 Health and Social Care, you should find everything you need I here to get you prepared for the start of your course.

Staff who will be supporting you on your qualification

Your Teaching Staff:GemmaAlisonJenny

Your Curriculum Support Coach:Steph

Your Personal Learning Coach:Elaine

Your building:Most of our lessons are taught on the second floor of the college building- throughout the orange corridor, including in our w ard simulator . Our Healthcare Ward Simulator contains a 4-bed ward with simulated patients, a bathroom, nurses’ station and a classroom with a viewing pane into the ward for observation. You will also have lessons taught to you in the ELC (E-Learning Centre).

We also have a Costa Coffee and Starbucks station on site, not forgetting our huge canteen providing a wide variety of meals.

Why is Health and Social Care an important qualification to gain?

Jobs in this sector are challenging and demanding but they are also rewarding and satisfying. For example, think of the Covid-19 outbreak. Health and Social care workers were essential to the fight to keep the vulnerable people of our society safe and healthy.

What career path could this course lead you onto?

Care assistant

Social worker

Social work assistant

Midwife

Nursery worker

SEN Support worker

Paramedic

Health assistant

Nurse

Circle the ones that you think may suit you

Materials & resources you will be usingOur most treasured book to work from is our CACHE Level 2 Extended Diploma in Health & Social Care. You can buy these new and used, on Amazon or any other reputable book retailer. Why not buy one now, read through some of the chapters and challenge yourself to some of the tasks?

A USB stick will always come in handy!

Pens and pencils- essential kit.

Programmes to watch and books to read linked to Health & Social Care

Films: Wonder - (PG) Inspiring story of a boy with facial differences who enters the

fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. Coping with being different. Coping with life/life events

Hidden figures – (PG) Anti-discrimination. Care values

Still Alice – (12A) Story of a woman living with Alzheimer's disease. Illness/Disorders

My sister’s keeper – (12A) "The only way to save your daughter is to sacrifice her sister". Anna has never been given a choice: she was born to be her sister Kate's bone marrow donor and she has always given Kate everything she needs. Relationships/family

Three identical strangers – (12A) Identical triplets become separated at birth and adopted by three different families. Years later, their amazing reunion becomes a global sensation. Relationships/family

Bohemian Rhapsody – (12A) Freddy Mercury defies stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. Lifestyle factors/social & cultural stereotypes

Me before You – (12A) A young and quirky woman becomes a caregiver for a wealthy young banker left paralysed from an accident two years earlier. Life events/formal & informal care/disability

The Children Act – (12A) Adam Henry has leukaemia. His doctors want to perform a blood transfusion, but his parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and believe that having a blood transfusion is against biblical principles. Illness/ethics/relationships

To the Bone – (15 Netflix) Eating disorders/anorexia Diet and appearance

Sorry we missed you (15) Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the financial crash. Social & cultural factors/income & wealth/life circumstances

The Upside - (12A) The relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and a recent unemployed ex-convict. Disability/relationships

TV programmes: Babies: their wonderful world – BBC. Explores how the first 2 years of life

shapes the adults we become. Infancy development/life stages

The secret life of 4 and 5-year olds – Channel 4. Great for looking at childhood development/life stages (especially socialisation skills)

Old people’s home for 4-year olds – Channel 4. How the company of 4-year olds helped to improve the mood, mobility and memory of the elderly . Life stages.

Born to be different – Channel 4. The pressures and joys of bringing up a disabled child https://www.channel4.com/programmes/born-to-be-different/ Disability/infancy and childhood/life events.

Speech journey – You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt7y1IM2jOM How children learn to talk from birth to 5 years old. Intellectual development

Mum, Dad, Alzheimer’s and Me – You Tube. Real life story investigating the care of Alzheimer’s sufferers in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LprTLaO1AF0 Old age/disorders

Louis Theroux, Extreme Love: Dementia – BBC 2 Sufferers and carers explore the struggle of living with dementia. Disorders/formal and informal carers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gvt26

The restaurant that makes mistakes – Channel 4. Volunteers living with some form of dementia run a pop-up restaurant in Bristol. Middle - Old age/disorders

The big hospital experiment – BBC. A group of volunteers embark on a social experiment, with a shortage of staff, how can they help on the frontline of the NHS? Care values/Health care services

Britain’s hidden hungry – BBC. Investigates the growing importance of charity foodbanks to thousands of hungry people across the UK by following the stories of three users of a foodbank. Diet and appearance.

Supersize v Superskinny – Channel 4. Dieting and extreme eating lifestyles. Diet and appearance

Rio Ferdinand: "Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad" Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgoRcxm5BUk Coping with life events

Rio and Kate: becoming a stepfamily. Rio Ferdinand’s fiancée Kate Wright integrates into the family as a step mum https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f9sg Coping with life events/family units

Driven: The Billy Monger Story. The remarkable story of 18-year-old Billy Monger as he attempts to become the first ever amputee to race competitively in a single-seater racing car https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qx4gt Life events (unexpected)

24 hours in A & E – Channel 4. Emergency cases entering A & E. Life events

Health before the NHS – The road to recovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7zeZPfD8k The shocking story of the health of Britain before the NHS. Care values/health care services

Care – BBC drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJXDk-B8h0 Discrimination/disability

DIY S.O.S. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006pnjk Friends, family and local trades help to transform the homes of families with special needs across Britain. Barriers to accessing services/physical barriers

Crisis in Care: BBC Panorama https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005jpf Panorama reveals the failings of our social care system, as our population gets older and more of us need help with day to day living. Old age/care services

The Nine to Five with Stacey Dooley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06zhfvw/the-nine-to-five-with-stacey-dooley-series-1-2-caring-and-sharing Stacey Dooley takes five teenagers to a care home for work experience. Types of support/voluntary support/old age

Katie Piper: My beautiful face – recovery after acid attack. Self-esteem/self-confidence/ lifestyle

Call the Midwife - BBC life events/childbirth/formal support

Jesy Nelson - BBC 3 Little Mix star Jesy Nelson goes on a journey of rehabilitation as she opens up about abuse she has suffered at the hands of cyberbullies. Social/cultural factors that affect development

Books: David Pelzer, A Child Called It

Davide Pelzer, A Man Named Dave

Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt

Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes

Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

R J Palacio, Wonder

Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

Michael Newton, Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children

Ray Jones, The Story of Baby P: Setting the record straight

Hope Daniels, Tainted Love

Jojo Moyes, Me before You

Jen Pedro Roy, Good Enough

Emma Healey, Elizabeth is Missing

John Holt, How Children Learn

John Holt, How Children fail

Oliver Sacks, The Man who mistook his wife for a Hat

Tessa Livingstone, Child of our Time

Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

Malorie Blackman, Pig Heart Boy

Meredith Russo, If I was your Girl

John Green, The Fault in our Stars

Dr Judith Rapoport, The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Paul Kalanithi, When Breath becomes Air

Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Rachel Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

Henry Marsh, Admissions

Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story

Suzi Brent, Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches from Ambulance Control

Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses

Melvin Burgess, Junk

Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

Torey Hayden, Just Another Kid

Clare Mackintosh, After the End

The following tasks were designed to give you a head start for your course

Please spend time completing each one to submit for marking on your first day

Task 1

During your level 2 course you will be required to attend a work placement. Work placements must be sourced by yourself. All students must write a formal letter to their chosen placement, asking the organisations permission to attend. Your task is to formulate a letter to send to your chosen employer.

*We don’t know your exact placement dates, so save an electronic copy of your letter onto a USB stick so that you can input the correct information at a later date.

Task 2

Creating a client support plan

A client support plan is what helps our Health & Social Care workers assist their clients appropriately.

Using the website, watch how the care assistant creates a support plan for a client.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z488jty/articles/zwtm2nb

Once you have watched the video on the link, you must use the skills you have learnt to create your own.

Using the following information, create a care plan for a service user named Jim.

Jim receives £250 per week in benefits

Jim must pay £55 per week rent

Jim goes to art class every week; this costs him £5

Jim uses public transport every day, his bus pass costs him £10

Jim buys budget range food each week, but does like to treat himself to fish and chips on a Friday

Extension

Jim wants to buy his brother a guitar for his birthday next year. The guitar will

cost £95. How long would it take Jim to save for his brother’s birthday present?

Task 3

Referencing

When working through your assignments you will be expected to reference anything you have taken from another source. For example, of you are describing the effects of a specific legislation on how we work- you must reference where you have sourced the correct and up to date legislation from. You could have found it on a government guideline website, or you could have read in in your course book - either way, you must note it as a reference.

Make a note of everything you use as you use it!

Record details of every book, e-book, article, website, or video you use as you use it – this way you won’t forget it later. Do this in a word document, a diary or on a specific page in a notebook.

citethisforme.com is a great place to create references – it’s a site that requires payment for all the elements, but you can create a reference list then copy and paste it into a word document. It’s a great tool to use to practice referencing and get used to the format.

Word has a references section, as you add a citation into your work you put in the details for it and when you get to the end of your work you can click bibliography and it will generate a list of everything you have cited in your work.

Have a go! Find a piece of information that you never knew before and set up a reference for it. Depending on where you have got the information from, you will record it differently. Here is the way we reference each source:

BOOKS

Author or authors

Date (year)

Main title and subtitle

Edition

Place of publication

Publisher

Page number(s)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Author of authors

Date (Year and month)

Title of article

Title of journal

Volume & issue

WEBPAGES

Author or authors

Date (Year)

Title of article

Format [online]

[webpage]

URL

Task 4: Knowledge Workbook

Answer the questions that explore the main themes of the unit

1. Growth and development mean different things in Health and Social Care. Which definition best describes growth and development?

a. Development is physiological and refers to weight and dimensions

b. Growth is an increase in a measured quantity and development is the acquisition of skills and abilities through the life stages

c. Growth refers to physical concepts and development refers to intellectual developments

2. Complete these sentences.

a. A definition of gross motor skills is: ______________________________ __________________________________________________________

b. A definition of fine motor skills is: ________________________________ __________________________________________________________

3. Identify if these are gross or fine motor skills. Write G (gross) of F (fine) in the box.

A Jumping

B Picking up a pen

C Threading a needle

D Doing up a button

E Climbing stairs

4. Write the name of the theorist by each theory title

a. Acquisition of Language

b. Theory of Cognitive development

c. Theory of attachment

d. Sequences of Attachments

5. Which is Nature? Which is Nurture?

a. Genetic predisposition

b. Modelling behaviour

c. Bandura

d. Gesell

6. Complete these sentences with words / phrases from the box

Respiratory disorders / overcrowding / long and short term health problems /allergies / damp / poor ventilation / asthma

a. Poor housing conditions can lead to ___________________________

b. Three features of poor housing are:

1 ____________________________

2 ____________________________

3 ____________________________

c. Three health problems could be

1 ____________________________

2 ____________________________

3 ____________________________

7. Here are factors that may affect development. State if they are physical / social / economic / environmental.

Family dysfunction

Exposure to pollution

Employment status

Genetic predispositions

Education

Culture, religion and beliefs

Low income family

8. The Holmes Rahe social re-adjustment scale looks at predictable and unpredictable life’s events.

Complete the sentences.

Starting school and retirement are ____________________________________

Divorce and sudden death of a partner are _____________________________

9. Draw a timeline with THREE predictable life’s events from birth through to early adulthood.

10. Draw a timeline with THREE unpredictable life’s events from middle adulthood through to later adulthood.

11.Effects of and changes in ageing in later adulthood – identify if these effects of ageing are: Physical /intellectual / emotional / social

(you will need to use some words more than once)

A Dementia

B Retirement

C Osteoarthritis

D Degeneration of taste buds

E Loss of independence

F Loneliness

G Cardiovascular issues

12. Identify two health and social care services that could help people to live independently in later adulthood.

13.These two theories commonly refer to which life stage?

a. Social disengagement theory: _________________________________

b. Activity theory: _____________________________________________

14. Identify which of these SIX issues limit social interaction.

Poor public transport

Membership of a social club

Playing team sports

Death of a partner

Financial worries

Family and friends living far away

Living in a big house with space to entertain

Poor health

Belonging to a church group and community

Increased leisure time

Ill health of relatives and friends

15.Which way around? Complete the sentences picking the TWO correct phrases from the table below:

how much people spend / not having enough money to pay bills / the amount of money households receive / experiencing poverty

a. Income is _________________________________________________

b. Expenditure is _____________________________________________

16.Pick the correct FIVE groups of people more likely to be on low income:

Families in secure employment

Sick people with disabilities

Families with inherited wealth

Older people

Healthy people

Families where one or both parents are unemployed

Families with only one parent earning

Lone parent family with parent working as a doctor in a hospital

Lone parent families

17.Pick one correct definition for the word STRESS and one correct definition for the word DIATHESIS.

A predisposition to physical ill health

More inclined to become anxious

Ability to cope with pressure

A predisposition towards a mental disorder

18.These key words refer to theorists. Name the theorist and the theory – you may need to use some theorists more than once.

Word Theorist Name of theory

a. Sensorimotor

b. Acquire language

c. Positive reinforcement

d. Pre-operational

e. Negative reinforcement

f. Attention

g. Maturation

h. Genetic predisposition

i. Schemas

j. Unpredictable life event

19. Write these words out in order 1 - 4:

Motivation / Attention / Reproduction / Retention

Name the theory and the theorist.

20. Write these words out in order 1 - 4:

Formal operational / Sensorimotor / Concrete operational / Preoperational

Name the theory and the theorist

Task 5: Short Answer Quiz

The skeleton forms the frame for the body and makes up about one fifth of the

body’s weight. It is made up of ___________ bones. It also includes cartilage, joints,

and ligaments. Besides for forming our body frame, the skeleton has several other

jobs. It is the anchor and support for all our ______________________________

and even our organs. It protects our vital organs like the brain, spinal cord, heart and

lungs. It allows us to move with muscles attached by

_____________________________, using the bones as levers. It is a place for our

body to store minerals, like _________________________. It is where the body

makes most of its new _________________________ cells. Bones come in many

shapes and sizes. The long bones have a long shaft and two bigger ends.

These include the bones of the arms and legs. The largest bone in the body, the

___________________________, is a long bone. It is 2 feet long and hollow, to

make it lighter. It is very strong to support the body’s weight. The short bones are

cube-shaped and include the bones of the wrist – the carpals, and the bones of the

ankle – the ____________________________.

The flat bones are thin, curved and flattened like the _______________________

and skull. Lastly, there are irregular bones such as the vertebra and pelvis. Each

section of the skeleton has a job. They work together to make the body a strong,

moving machine.