Welcome health and social care applicants!

Guided campus tour

Get a glimpse into the facilities you will be using as a health and social care student at West Notts College.

What our students say

Michael shares his experience at college, highlighting an amazing placement where he has been able to coach an Olympics team!

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Kathryn Baker

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Gallery

Work placement is a very important thing to gain key experience, not only in relation to health and social care, but it gives you that feeling of what working is like it helps you to gain employability skills – Freddie Driver.

A fabulously festive fundraising fayre! More than a dozen charities benefitted from funds raised at West Nottinghamshire College’s Christmas market organised by health and social care students.

Caring students make it a bountiful bake-off. Health and social care students gave a national charity a boost with their biscuit and buns.

A beacon of good will for homeless. Health and social care students gave a bumper collection of produce and cash to two local charities.

University visit expands healthcare skills. Health and social care students were treated to a tour of Nottingham Trent University’s healthcare study facilities at its Mansfield-based campus.

Counting candy and cracking coconuts – just some of the fundraising fun at college.

After doing my placement at Alfreton Park for special needs, I realised how much I enjoyed working with younger children. I actually stayed longer than I was supposed to stay because I loved it so much.

I loved learning about everything to do with health and social care and being able to go to different placements and see how their jobs work.

FAQs - health and social care courses

The following information will hopefully give you a little bit more of an insight into what it will be like to be a student with us.

• Where will I study?

  All of our health and social care courses are based at our Derby Road site. The college runs 13 college buses to Derby Road in a morning and in the evening.

• What is it like?

  The college is a professional environment intended to prepare you to work in industry. As such we expect behaviour to be in line with what it would be in the world of work. Attendance and punctuality are very important. Due to the nature of the industry that you will be going into behaviour, attitude are very important so the team are very supportive but have exacting expectation in terms of conduct.

• What will I study?

  Study on campus is mainly classroom based but we have a new simulated ward where you turn classroom learning into practice. This includes an animatronic patient, moving and handling devices and other resources you would find in industry. At level 2, you will be required to understake a range of written activities to begin to further develop your writing skills. Learning at level 3 is academically based to support your progression to higher education or emloyment opportunities

• What about English and maths?

  If you start at college and you haven’t yet achieved your English and Maths GCSEs at grade 4 or above, then you will continue to study these for three hours each week per subject. At the end of your first year you will take a resit GCSE exam. It is important you attend your English and Maths lessons alongside your chosen course.

  Take a look at our fact sheets to find out why English and maths is important within this industry.

  View English and maths fact sheets

• What will I have to wear?

  Our health sciences and social care students , wear a health sector tunic whilst in college with smart black trousers and flat shoes. When on work placement, studenst wear a polo shirt with our college logo, with smart black trousers and black shoes.

• Will I have to do a work placement?

  At level 2 it is an important aspect of the course. At Level 3 work placement is a mandatory part of the course and on average students would attend one day a week on a work placement. The team have work placement coordinators who allocate a work placement to you and review progress with employers. You will expected to complete a work placement within the health sciences and social care sector areas.

  All of our students will be able to become involved in our learning companies which are in-house opportunities to gain real world experience supporting a wide range of local and national charities.

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• Applicant activities

  Before you start at West Notts, here are a few activites to get involved in.

  

  Watch - careers in a health and social care setting

  Here you will see a number of videos featuring real practitioners in a range of health settings, both out in the community as well as in a hospital environment. These videos will give you an outline of the skills the people have needed to gain in order to go into their preferred specialities and you’ll see them at work with the range of people they serve in their day to day working lives.

  Day in a life of paramedics

  Day in a life of a mental health nurse

  Day in a life of a midwife

  Inspiring Males - Social Work

  A day in the life of a support worker

  A career in NHS as a clinical psychologist

  Inspiring Males Occupational Therapy and Nursing

  What it takes to be a Speech & Language Therapist

  What it's like to have a career in Physiotherapy

  Day in the life of a Music Therapist

  Benefits of working for the NHS