Healthcare Sciences

Qualifications Required

• Must be 16+ and employed in an appropriate role
• Apprentices must achieve Level 1 English and Maths, and attempt Level 2 before gateway.

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Core Units

• Professional practice and Good Scientific Practice (GSP)
• Person‑centred care and communication
• Health, safety and security
• Technical scientific skills (routine tests, sample handling, equipment prep)
• Data recording and information governance

Qualifications Required

• Entry requirements set by employers; typically GCSEs inc. English, Maths and Science. (Skills England: no mandatory qualification requirements beyond standard apprenticeship English/Maths)

 

 

 

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Core Units

• Laboratory safety and risk management
• Quality procedures and regulation
• Scientific techniques and instrumentation
• Data production and reporting
• Scientific communication
• Continuous improvement and problem‑solving

Qualifications Required

• Must be employed within an appropriate role
• English and Maths Level 2

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Core Units

• Good Scientific Practice and professional values
• Person‑centred care and communication
• Health, safety, governance and ethics
• Technical investigations and diagnostic testing
• Quality standards and protocol maintenance
• Equipment and data management

Qualifications Required

• Must be employed within an appropriate role
• English and Maths Level 2

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Core Units

• Professional practice and legislation
• Holistic assessment and person‑centred care
• Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Communication, MDT working and safeguarding
• Risk management and infection control
• Leadership, teaching and supervision

Qualifications Required

• Must be 16+ and employed in a relevant clinical setting (NHS, private, community, hospital, military) to complete required workplace competencies
• English and Maths Level 2 required; employers may specify Level 3 science qualifications.

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Core Units

• Laboratory investigations and experimentation
• Data collection, analysis and interpretation
• Scientific problem‑solving and evaluation
• Ethics, safety and regulatory compliance
• Scientific communication (specialist and nonspecialist)
• Project management principles

Qualifications Required

• Must complete an HCPC‑approved degree OR IBMS Certificate of Competence, enabling HCPC registration.

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Core Units

• Clinical science knowledge (infection, cellular, blood sciences)
• Laboratory diagnostic techniques and QA
• Data interpretation and reporting
• Advanced laboratory technologies (automation, microscopy, molecular)
• HCPC professional and ethical practice

Qualifications Required

•  Qualification delivered as an integrated degree (BSc Healthcare Science). English/Maths Level 2 required.

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Core Units

• Good Scientific Practice and professionalism
• Applied diagnostic and clinical science
• Complex investigations and data interpretation
• SOP development and quality systems
• Leadership, supervision and decision‑making
• Patient‑facing communication and MDT work

Qualifications Required

• Employers set requirements; typically 5 GCSEs including English, Maths and Science + relevant A‑levels or Level 3 science qualification. (From Skills England employer expectations)

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Core Units

•  Scientific investigation design and analysis
• Advanced scientific principles and specialist knowledge
• Laboratory equipment and specialist instrumentation
• Scientific problem‑solving and innovation
• Regulation, ethics and safe scientific practice
• Scientific communication and leadership