VOCATIONAL PROGRAMME LEADING TO PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Health and Social Care Programme
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Do you want to help people be healthy? This programme is for anyone who wants to work in health and medical care, psychiatry, elderly care and with individuals with disabilities.
Video: This video provides a brief description of the Health and Social Care Programme (time: 5:07 min)
After graduating from the programme, you can apply to become an assistant nurse. You submit your application to the National Board of Health and Welfare.
Apply to become an assistant nurse trained in Sweden, National Board of Health and Welfare website
What you will learn in the Health and Social Care Programme
You learn about health, illness, disability, medicine, pedagogy and psychology. You will learn about people's different needs and understand the impact that lifestyle has on health. You will learn how to interact with people in a professional manner.
The programme places great emphasis on occupational health and safety issues to avoid work-related injuries and to build good health.
You will train to perform tasks required in professional life, such as assisting with personal care, medical device tasks, domestic tasks, and administrative and social tasks.
The programme centres around assignments that you complete individually or in a group. You will develop your ability to plan, carry out and document your work, and to take initiative and be creative.
I think the programme is suitable for anyone who enjoys interacting with and getting to know new people in everyday life. And you should also be a bit interested in how you can help people.
Jeerapan / Health and Social Care Programme
Diploma goals
The diploma goals describe what you should be capable of doing when you graduate from a particular upper secondary school programme.
Diploma goals for the Health and Social Care Programme (skolverket.se)
Programme structure
The programme structure shows you which subjects and levels are included in the programme. You can also see how many credits each subject and level covers.
Programme structure for the Health and Social Care Programme (PDF)
Orientations
This programme has no orientations. It provides a cohesive foundation and training for work as an assistant nurse. The programme prepares you to seek jobs, for example, in the field of disability, in health and medical care, psychiatry, elderly care and with individuals with disabilities.
Diploma project
At the end of the Health and Social Care Programme, you will carry out a diploma project in your chosen professional field. This will enable you to demonstrate that you have the ability to perform the most common tasks needed to start working in your chosen field.
Workplace-based learning
Parts of the programme take place at one or more workplaces for at least 15 weeks. This is known as workplace-based learning (arbetsplatsförlagt lärande, APL). This is an important element of the programme. APL gives you the opportunity to use the knowledge you gained through school and put it into practice. It gives you work experience and contacts you can use when looking for a job.
Studying at another site or abroad
Apprenticeship education
If the school offers upper secondary apprenticeship education within the programme, you can choose this. This means that you gain the same knowledge, but spend at least half of the programme based at one or more workplaces.
About apprenticeship education in upper secondary school
Starting work after the programme and examples of professions
You can start working right after completing the programme. This programme enables you to work in health and medical care and in social services. In health and medical care, you can work, for example, in somatic and psychiatric hospital wards, at healthcare centres and in home health care. In social services, you can work, for example, in sheltered housing, group homes, daily activities for individuals with disabilities, social psychiatry, home help services or as a personal assistant.
- Nursing assistant in hospital ward and clinic
- Nursing assistant in home health services and nursing home
- Nursing assistant in the field of disability
For more information on the duties involved in the different professions and forecasts of future job prospects, see the “Hitta yrken A–Ö” (Find professions A–Ö) service.
Hitta yrken A–Ö (Find professions A–Ö)
Further studies after the programme and qualification
Do you want to continue your studies at a college or university after completing the programme? Through the programme, you will meet the general entry requirements for higher education studies as well as certain specific entry requirements.
After the programme, you can also study a higher vocational education programme or a programme at a folk high school.
General entry requirements for upper secondary school vocational programme, skolverket.se
Qualification for higher education after the programme
Use the “Behörighetsvisaren” (Qualification indicator) service to see which programmes you are eligible to apply for after the programme.