Course Summary
Course Category: PLC (Further Education - FET) - Apply directly to College
This course is for you if you are a people person with a patient, kind nature and would like to take on the roles and responsibilities associated with caring for people with additional challenges living in our community.
This course will enable you to acquire competencies and skills, to care for someone with a person-centred approach ensuring that empathy, dignity, respect, and confidentiality are fundamental to best practice. If you want to bring a smile to others, enhance the quality of life and facilitate positive change then this is the course for you.
Course Details
This course prepares you for working in the following Career Sectors:
What will you study?
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Infection Prevention and Control (5N3734)
Care Support (5N0758)
Work Experience (5N1356)
Communications (5N0690)
Nutrition (5N2006)
Family Support Skills (5N3738)
Person Centred focus to Disability (5N1728)
Equality and Disability (5N1273)
Important
- Colleges may add/remove modules to keep the course updated and to meet demands.
- Almost all PLC courses have a Work Experience module, which requires students to find their own placement in an area directly related to their course.
Progression to CAO Courses
Higher Education Links Scheme (HELS)
This course leads to a QQI Major Award, and provides progression opportunities to a number of Higher Education courses, including those in the CAO.
To view CAO courses to which this award provides a possible progression route, click below:
| QQI Code |
| 5M3782 |
To calculate Points based on your QQI award results, use the PLC Points Calculator.
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Social
The Social person's interests focus on interacting with the people in their environment. In all cases, the Social person enjoys the personal contact with other people in preference to the impersonal dealings with things, data and ideas found in other groups.
Many will seek out positions where there is direct contact with the public in some advisory role, whether a receptionist or a counsellor. Social people are motivated by an interest in different types of people and like diversity in their work environments. Many are drawn towards careers in the caring professions and social welfare area, whilst others prefer teaching and other 'informing' roles.
Further Research
National Statistics for this Award (All Ireland)
The following data provides general information about this Award from colleges across Ireland.
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