Health T-level: Healthcare Science

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Do you want to work in the healthcare sector? Healthcare Science encompasses various roles, including working in pharmacies, laboratories, and supporting medical teams in various fields including radiography, respiratory, cardiography, and audiology. This pathway enhances your understanding of the healthcare science sector, covering anatomy, physiology, laboratory skills, and medical physics. You'll also gain clinical skills to support healthcare scientists in diagnosing patients. Designed by employers, this high-level technical qualification includes practical skills like clinical tasks and physiological measurements, ensuring you’re ready for the modern workplace and quality patient care.

What will I study in Health T-level: Healthcare Science?

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. You will also learn laboratory skills to analyse specimens and samples collected.

Entry Requirements

At least 5 GCSEs at Grade 4 or above including 3 from the core subjects. Grade 4 in Maths and English. A grade 4 in Science is recommended.

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 also be required to receive further vaccinations to work in some clinical placements.

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.

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. Your occupational specialism is assessed through 'synoptic assessment' which is based on you demonstrating skills you've learned.