Assignment

title

Empowering Service Users

Assessor

MISS H DOBSON

Date issued

16/3/15

Final Deadline
Duration
(approx)

29/5/15

Qualification
suite covered

BTEC
BTEC
BTEC
BTEC

Units covered

Unit 2: Health and Social Care Values

Learning aims
covered

Learning aim B: Investigate ways of empowering individuals who use

health and social care services

Scenario

Your supervisor for one of your chosen settings (from Learning aim A) has
asked you to produce an information pack for new volunteers. The
information pack will need to assess the potential difficulties of taking
individual circumstances into account when planning care to empower an
individual. You should also make suggestions for improvement.

Task

Everyone Can Join In

5 hours
Level
Level
Level
Level

1/Level
1/Level
1/Level
1/Level

2
2
2
2

First
First
First
First

Award in Health and Social Care

Certificate in Health and Social Care
Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care
Diploma in Health and Social Care

Produce an information pack for new volunteers. Your pack should include
the following.
An assessment of the difficulties involved in taking into account
individual circumstances when planning support that empowers each
person, using your chosen service. Weigh up the extent to which care
can empower each person and use examples.
An explanation of why it is important to take into account the
circumstances of each person, using your chosen service, when
planning empowering care.
Suggestions for improvements based on your assessment.
Each section of your information pack should refer to examples from health
and social care.
Written report.

Evidence you
must produce
for this task
Criteria covered by this task:

To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to:
Describe ways in which care workers can empower individuals,
using relevant examples from health and social care.
Explain why it is important to take individual circumstances into
account when planning care that will empower an individual,
using relevant examples from health and social care.
Discuss the extent to which individual circumstances can be
taken into account when planning care that will empower them,
using relevant examples from health and social care.
Assess the potential difficulties in taking individual
circumstances into account when planning care that will
empower an individual, making suggestions for improvement.
Pearson 2014

Unit
2

Criterion
reference
2B.P3

2B.P4

2B.M2

2B.D2

Sources of
information

Textbooks
Higgins, H. et al. (2013) BTEC Level 2 First Health and Social Care Student
Book, Harlow: Pearson Education, 978 1 44690 135 9
Haworth, H. et al. (2010) BTEC Level 2 First Health and Social Care
Student Book, Harlow: Pearson Education, 978 1 84690 681 7
Journals
Community Care
Learning Disability Practice
The Nursing Times
Websites
www.cqc.org.uk
Note to assessors
We are committed to ensuring that teachers/tutors and learners
have a choice of resources to support their teaching and study.
We would encourage them to use relevant resources for your local
area such as local employers, newspapers and council websites.
Resources from various publishers are available to support delivery
and training for all Pearson and BTEC qualifications so that learners
and teachers/tutors can select those that best suit their needs.
Above are some suggestions for textbooks and websites. Further
useful resources may be found at:
www.edexcel.com/resources/Pages/default.aspx.

If you have not achieved the Level 2 criteria, your work will be assessed to determine if the
following Level 1 criteria have been met.
Criterion
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to:
Unit
reference
Identify ways in which care workers can empower individuals.
2
1B.3
Describe how an individuals circumstances can be used to create
2
1B.4
a care plan that empowers the individual.

Pearson 2014