Community Health Services

Colaiste Ide College of Further Education

Price: TBA

Duration: 1 Year

Course details

The Healthcare Level 5 programme is delivered under the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme. VTOS provides general education and training opportunities for unemployed adults by enabling them to retain their social welfare entitlements while in fulltime study. The above one-year programme facilitates suitable adults in acquiring qualifications for employment opportunities in the area of healthcare as healthcare assistants or in residential and non-residential settings.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Personal Interview
Relevant prior experience
English Assessment
Garda Vetting Application

PRINCIPAL AREA OF STUDY

Communications
Occupational First Aid
Care Provision & Practice
Care Support
Work Experience
Legal Practice and Procedures
Nursing Theory and Practice
Infection Prevention and Control
Word Processing
Anatomy and Physiology
Understanding Special Needs
Patient and Manual Handling

ACCREDITATION

QQI

EXTERNAL EXAMINERS

QQI

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES/PROGRESSION

Successful graduates of the Healthcare programme find employment as classroom assistants and as care assistants. Graduates also find employment in a variety of residential and non-residential healthcare settings or as personal carers. Graduates also progress to higher education and training.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Colaiste Ide College of Further Education

A word of theylcome to Colaiste Ide College of Further Education It is always a difficult decision to know what area of study one wishes to pursue after completing one's full-time education. It is even more difficult, if having left full-time education many years ago to make that decision to return again and to take up where one left off. Coming up to the Leaving Certificate they are presented with so much choice and pressure to make a correct lifetime choice that it is difficult, if not impossible, to know what is the correct option to chose. Post Leaving Certificate ctheirses have been developed with a view to providing students with options to study in their areas of interest and to either pursue those interests in Higher Education or to move directly to the workplace. They also provide mature students with a route that enables them to avail of a second chance education system that allows for the acquiring of new skills and re-acquaintance with skills acquired at an earlier stage in life.

The system of assessment used by the FETAC Accreditation system enables students to be assessed on a continual basis rather than solely on an end of year examination which can give a more accurate reflection of a student's work and results. Colaiste Ide has been providing ctheirses at this level since the mid 1970's and has developed a reputation for delivering effective and relevant career related ctheirses. Over the years, students have achieved successfully achieved what they have come to the college to study and have moved on directly into employment or on to Higher Education Institutions.

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