Health T-level: Adult Nursing

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Are you interested in becoming a nurse, midwife, or paramedic? This innovative course provides a pathway into these rewarding careers, complete with hands-on learning in our state-of-the-art hospital ward.

Focusing broadly on nursing, healthcare best practices, and an understanding of the NHS, this course is valuable for various healthcare roles. A major placement with patients and health professionals is a core component, giving you real-world experience. This course also prepares you for university studies in nursing or healthcare.

You'll develop essential team and professional skills, equipping you with the knowledge needed for your chosen healthcare sector.

What will I study in Health T-level: Adult Nursing?

The content of the Health T-Level has been built from the ground up by employers, and so there is no better way of ensuring that you have the employable skills necessary to excel. This includes learning the most up-to-date knowledge and understanding of what it means to work in the health sector. You will gain a deep understanding of biology and what makes living organisms from cells to human beings tick. You will grasp detailed knowledge of the job roles within the sector, including laws, regulations and how health systems all work together to keep people safe and healthy. Unique to the T-Level, you'll get the chance to learn practical skills like clinical tasks or taking physiological measurements, and how these can be used to give people the quality care they deserve.

On the Nursing pathway, you will specifically study these areas:

Assisting with an individual’s overall care and needs to ensure comfort and wellbeing
Assist registered health professionals with clinical or therapeutic tasks and interventions
Undertake a range of physiological measurements
Assist the adult nursing team with clinical tasks
Support individuals to meet activities of daily living
Assist with skin integrity assessments and with the care and treatment of skin conditions

Entry Requirements

5+ GCSEs at Grade 4 or above from the core subjects, including English Language, Maths and Science.

This course requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, we will be asking students to bring the necessary details to their enrolment appointment to complete this.

You may be required to have additional vaccinations to work in the hospitals.

How will I learn?

The T-Level program will be taught in a way that immerses you as a worker in the sector. You will learn just as a health worker would, like working in teams and through practical demonstrations of skills. The ways that you showcase your talent will also be much like an actual health environment: with independent work, presentations and written reports. The classroom environment should be one of cooperation; teachers and students work together to get the most out of your qualifications.

There is a large work experience component, designed to make sure that you have the best possible chance of securing your progression into work or further education as you proceed from the T-Level. You will be required to have undertaken 315 hours of work experience by the time you finish, and the focus on this will be to learn skills and competence on the job, as well as give you a chance to reflect on your strengths and areas for development.

We work closely with NHS trusts in the area who provide placements for students on wards or within the community. We also have many students in other, private, health organisations, e.g., care homes.

How will I be assessed?

The T-Level is assessed in a variety of ways all with the needs of employers in mind. Your core component is assessed through two written exams as well as a project that you will complete based on a brief given by employers. This employer set project is a controlled assessment that you take over two weeks. Your occupational specialism is assessed through 'synoptic assessment' which is based on you demonstrating skills you've learned.

Any trips?

You will be off-site for one day a week to give you the opportunity to culminate industry placement hours.

Whilst on site, you will have a training morning whereby professionals will be invited in to demonstrate different skills and techniques related to the nursing sector.

There will be opportunities for trips to universities to gain an insight into the health courses they offer.