Health Care Work Experience – Listowel
This programme module aims to provide the learner with the personal knowledge, skills and capacity to participate in a suitable healthcare work placement.
Minor Award
Course overview
This programme module aims to provide the learner with the personal knowledge, skills and capacity to participate in a suitable healthcare work placement. Under supervision the learner has an opportunity to reflect on work experiences, explore vocations opportunities and examine personal career opportunities.
This course is a classroom based course.
It will run for one night a week (Tuesday, 6.30pm – 9.30pm) from January 9th to March 27th, 2025. Then moves to two nights a week (Tuesday and Thursday, 6.30pm – 9.30pm) from the 1st of April and finishing on the 10th of April 2025.
Please note: All learners must have competent written and spoken English (CEFR B2 or Higher).
What will I study ?
Objectives of the Programme Module:
- Examine work organisations and personal career opportunities in a particular vocational area, to include consideration of work-related issues and needs.
- Analyse key challenges and opportunities facing a particular vocational area.
- Summarise the basic rights and responsibilities of employees and employers in a particular work, organisational or institutional context, to include health, safety and welfare at work, equality legislation, union representation and regulations relating to pay.
- Compile a personal and vocational skills audit and career plan for a specific vocational area, to include goals and action points for the period of work experience.
- Present relevant work experience material, to include a CV or personal statement, letter of application, evidence of job-finding skills, skills checklist, statement of learning goals, contractual arrangements.
- Participate effectively in work experience to include observation of good timekeeping, working independently while under general direction, meeting deadlines, personal presentation, communication, adherence to health, safety and other relevant regulations.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills in the workplace, to include personal, interpersonal and technological communication skills.
- Reflect on workplace experiences, to include feedback by supervisor(s) or mentor(s) on personal performance and challenges such as conflict, criticism, meeting new people and learning in relation to quality management.
What is the certification?
QQI Level 5 Minor Award Certificate in Work Experience (5N1356)
What are the entry requirements?
- Capable of working on own initiative.
- Experience in using web-based learning systems is an advantage.
- Learners are required to have a minimum B2 CEFR level in English when accessing this course.
- Learners are required to have current Kerry ETB garda vetting clearance in order to gain Work Placement. Manual and Patient Handling are not included as part of this course.
- Please Note: Learners will be required to obtain their own work placement in a HIQA registered setting to complete healthcare modules. You will be required to complete 60 hours placement time.
- Applicants must have experience in the area to enrol onto this course e.g. have other Healthcare Support Modules completed and are working towards a full award.
What is the cost?
Fees apply to all part-time programmes.
A fee waiver is in place for applicants in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment. You can check your fee waiver eligibility with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP), INTREO or your Local Employment Service (LES) office.
Learners in employment may also be granted a fee waiver under the Skills to Advance Initiative. For more details on this please contact Claire at [email protected]
Still have questions?
Contact our Kerry College Admissions Offices – Tralee on 066 714 9696, Killarney on 064 662 2593 or [email protected]
Part-time Courses - FAQs
FET is short for Further Education & Training. Kerry College is an integrated college of FET. This means we do both progression-focused further education programmes and a range of employment-focused skills training programmes.
We enroll twice each year - January and September.
Part-time programmes run on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings, and increasingly online.
This depends on the course you choose.
Some courses have long waiting lists, others - not so much. Places are filled on a first-come, first-served basis so the best advice we can offer is to apply in plenty of time.
We enroll over 1000 applicants to our part-time courses each year - so it's always busy.
As places are offered based on the date of application, our team could be working their way down through the list.
That said, always check.
You can call Mary on our Part-time courses team at 066-7149696.
Although all of our part-time courses are fee-paying, we do have a DEASP Fee Waiver in place for those in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment.
This is subject to a waiting list and demand for course places.
Most part-time courses run at Kerry College are Minor awards.
A Minor award is commonly referred to as a module - but also as a component certificate or a certificate of unit credit.
These single 'modules' may be completed and certificated individually. All minor awards are linked to a major award that allows learners to collect and build their minor awards and work towards gaining a major award.
Applications for all part-time programmes should be made online - via the Kerry College website or www.fetchcourses.ie
FETCH COURSES is the national application system for all FET course applications.
All new applicants must set up a free account on www.fetchcourses.ie. You must use this to apply for all further education and training progarmmes anywhere in Ireland.
For existing Fetch Courses account holders, login and apply as before.
You can reset your password using your email or mobile phone. When you do, make sure you keep it for future reference.
Bear in mind, FETCH uses your PPS number to identify you - so although you might be able to set up a second account - it won't work properly.
If you're still stuck, contact our Admissions team on 066-714 96 96
No, aside from the DEASP Fee Waiver, all part-time courses are fee-paying.