Celebrating National T Level Week

At Worcester Sixth Form College we currently offer T Levels in both Education & Early Years and Health. After achieving great exam results at the end of year one, our second year T Level students are busy applying for university places and preparing for year two assessments whilst still supporting patients or children in their placements.

The life of a T Level student is quite different from other students at College so one of our Health T Level students has shared a week in their life:

“On Monday and Tuesday, the days are spent at our hospital placements. The day starts at 7am as we all make our way to the wards of the hospitals across Worcestershire. On shift we use all our newly acquired skills to support the care of patients working alongside the NHS staff. On these days we have a variety of opportunities, meeting many of the allied health care professionals and learn new skills gaining a real insight into working as a healthcare professional. For some of us the experience that we have had, has influenced what we have gone on to apply for at university changing our mind about our future careers.

On Wednesday we return to College where this week, it was time to reflect on the onsite training we undertook at the end of last week that was delivered by trainers from the Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust. This led to some further practice in the purpose-built hospital skills lab and participate in some peer assessment. This makes our course more practical and really interesting but also supporting us to develop a range of skills as well as increasing our knowledge.

Thursday saw all the students travelling to University of Worcester for a taster day. Here we listened to talks about university life, student finance and accommodation. After a tour of the

campus there were workshops covering adult nursing, midwifery and occupational therapy. We were able to explore a purpose-built house with adaptations to support patients to remain living independently and assess the issues that our patient may encounter. Speaking to the lecturers and the student ambassadors gave us more of an idea of how university students learn and all our questions were answered.

Friday there was a real focus on preparation for the second-year assessments of practical skills where we all practiced our aseptic techniques under the supervision of our specialist nurse tutors who share their own experiences of working on the wards and caring for patients. After this, there was a theory lesson before heading off for the weekend.”

To find out more about our T Level offering, the College has two Open Events (23rd October and 6th November) coming up – to find out more visit https://www.wsfc.ac.uk/open-events/