Starter
• Discuss what went well last year, what you
enjoyed and anything you found fascinating.
• What would you need to do to improve this
year?
• Mind map a list of different practitioner roles
in society (10 is enough)
• Now rate these 1 – 10 (or however many you
do) in terms of importance to society
explaining why.
Unit 6
Summary
This is a very brief overview of what you need to produce for this unit.
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This unit requires you to investigate TWO contrasting job roles in health and social care.
SECTION A
The Introduction: (A01 & A02 criteria)
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Employment sectors - where they work
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Description of the two job roles
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Job Status
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Working Conditions
SECTION B
Evidence: (A03 Criteria)
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From interview
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Evidence of your own aptitudes
SECTION C
Evaluation: (A04 Criteria)
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Comparing the Job roles
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Evaluating your suitability for the job roles
SECTION D
appendix: (A03 Criteria)
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Containing all relevant evidence
Information
• This unit aims to increase your understanding
of the world of work in health, social care,
children and young people and community
justice sectors. It also helps you to reflect on
your own suitability for different job roles.
• This unit is synoptic. It requires you to use the
knowledge and understanding of life quality
factors and caring skills gained in HSC01 and
other AS units.
What you need to know, understand
and demonstrate
What you need to know, understand
and demonstrate
What you need to know, understand
and demonstrate
What you need to know, understand
and demonstrate
How you will be assessed
• You need to produce a report describing and evaluating
two contrasting job roles in health and social care.
• It should also include an evaluation of your own suitability
for these roles.
• Your report should not be a shared exercise or based on a
whole group topic, wholly your own work.
• Work which does not demonstrate independence cannot
be awarded high marks.
DISCUSSION
A report: needs to be well organised, detailed and fully addressing all of the criteria in the grid on
page 2 of this booklet.
Evaluation: means you should examine all of the evidence that you have gathered and reach both
positive and negative conclusions.
Contrasting job roles: indicate that there should exist significant difference between the two job
roles that you select (THIS IS A MUST DO!)
For example
Working in the community
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Working in a specific location
Working in the health sector
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working in social care
Qualified
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unqualified
High Status
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Control over working hours
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low or little status
TASK - Now, apply these ideas to different jobs?
e.g. a G.P and a nurse school teacher
little control
Introductory exercise
• In order to get to grips with this unit let’s try a
brief exercise on your own experiences.
• Think about the people you have encountered
in Health & Social Care, early years or
community justice settings.
• Note them down (e.g, GP)
Introductory exercise
• Now select one of them and write down as
many ideas as you can about what their job
involves.
• Note them down
Introductory exercise
• Now let’s organise your ideas and see you do
some research
Job Role
(Title)
Dental Nurse
Police Officer
Your choice
Your choice
Sector
Role
(Where do they
work?)
(what the job
involves)
Work
Conditions
(pay, hols etc)
Perceived
status
Introductory exercise
• Finally, rank them 1 to 4 (1 being the highest
and 4 the lowest) in terms of their status,
including what the public, society and you
think of them.
Introduction to report - Selecting Job
Roles
• You need to decide on two different /
contrasting job roles. Select them on the basis
of your own interest in those jobs – your
research can also be based on your own
career interests.
• Also, it will be very useful if you know a
person who works in one of these jobs, who
would be willing to be interviewed.
• Job roles must be from different sectors.
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physiotherapist;
hospital nurse; (in a specific field e.g. mental health, adult, child)
dental nurse
counsellor (specific ie psychotherapist etc);
consultant;
registrar;
speech and language therapist;
audiologist;
paramedic;
medical technician;
nursery / primary school teacher; (in a specific key stage e.g. 1 -2)
nursery nurse;
classroom assistant (special needs);
special needs teacher;
special educational needs co-ordinator;
educational psychologist;
midwife
dietician
• social worker (in specific field e.g. fostering, child abuse, homeless,
addiction etc)
• domiciliary care worker;
• care assistant;
• officer in charge of residential/sheltered accommodation;
• welfare rights advisor;
• GP;
• practice nurse;
• community/district nurse;
• health visitor;
• community psychiatric nurse;
• dentist;
• ophthalmologist;
• podiatrist/ chiropodist
• radiotherapist;
• occupational therapist;
• pharmacist
Job roles in the Community Justice
Sector
• Police officer
• Police Community Support Officer (PCOs)
• Youth Offending Team (YOT)
• Barrister
• Solicitors
• Probation Officers
• Prison officer
• Judges
SECTION B1 – Interview
Subsection 1
You must describe an investigation you have carried out
with a person who occupies one of the job roles you
described:
• You must design and use materials for a quality
assurance type interview to investigate that person’s
perception of aspects of their role, especially those
related to job satisfaction, i.e. the extent to which their
job meets their individual needs.
• Your interview should confirm the accuracy of your
research in Section A.
Interview Schedule
Complete each of the following tasks
Ethical Precautions
• Explain how you will maintain confidentiality and
why it is important.
– Explain how you will seek informed consent to carry
out your interview
– Describe how you will avoid causing embarrassing and
distress when conducting your interview (think back
to unit 2)
– Refer to your Letter of Consent (in appendix)
– Create an ethical approval form
A description and justification of your
interviewee
• Explain briefly who you are interviewing.
• Give some background information.
– Explain why you have chosen this person to interview.
– Do you know them? How might this influence the
quality of your interview?
– Do you have easy access to them?
– Will they be reliable and give accurate information?
– Are they experienced?
Aim of interview
• State what you hope to accomplish in this
interview
Type of interview used
– What kind of interview style you are using (i.e.
structure, semi- structured etc)
Structured and semi-structured
interviews
• Structured interviews require the use of a set of standardised
questions that the researcher creates in advance.
• Often, there are few open-ended questions in the interview guide.
• In this way, structured interviews resemble questionnaires or
surveys.
• Semi-structured interviews also use an interview guide with some
questions developed in advance but also allow the interviewer to
stray from the interview guide, asking follow-ups as the interviewer
believes appropriate.
• For example, an interviewee's responses to a prepared question
may raise issues that the interviewer wishes to explore further
follow-up queries.
• Can you think of an example?
Structured and semi-structured
interviews
• Structured interviews keep the order and phrasing of
the questions consistent across interviews to ensure
consistency in the data being collected.
• In contrast, semi-structured interviews may prescribe a
combination of questions and more general topics to
cover.
• Questions in semi-structured interviews are more
open-ended to allow interviewers to follow issues that
diverge from the guide.
• Because of the open-ended responses, interviewers
will often tape-record semi-structured interviews.
Structured and semi-structured
interviews
• Researchers use structured interviews when they have
a well-developed understanding of the topic being
studied.
• When sufficient research literature exists to provide
sufficient knowledge to develop relevant questions, a
structured interview is sufficient.
• When the literature is less developed and the
researcher wants to develop a better understanding of
the topic under consideration, semi-structured
interviews provide a way to gain additional knowledge
by allowing respondents to express their views in their
own words.
Type of interview used
– Explain that you will be using open/closed and
ranking questions and explain why (strengths and
weaknesses)
– How will you prepare for the interview? Maybe
carry out a mock interview. What went well with
your mock interview? What needs to be
improved? Feedback from interviewee?
– How will you record your information i.e.
Dictaphone etc?
Type of interview used
• Finishing by saying the following statement. ‘A
blank copy of my ethical approval form can
be found in Section D in the Section B1
appendix on page’
Letter of consent
• Letter of consent (you only do this if you do not
know the interviewee)
• Write a letter of consent to give to your
interviewee. This should include:
-You asking for permission
-Who you are? What you are studying and what this
unit is about.
• Assure them you will maintain confidentiality and
their right to withdraw at anytime
• You should ensure that the person you interview
is not named in your report.
DESIGNING YOUR INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
• Begin with an introduction to who you are and
what you want to find out from this interview.
• Remember this should be brief as you have
done this in detail in your letter of consent.
DESIGNING YOUR INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
• You need to use a combination of closed and
open questions, including where appropriate
rating scales to find out about satisfaction on
a range of individual needs (life quality
factors).
DESIGNING YOUR INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
• It may be easy to use the structure followed for section A of your
report for your interview. For example,
• Section 1 – collect personal information about your interviewee
(NO NAMES!)
• Section 2 – Job role questions
• Section 3 – Sectors
• Section 4 – Job Status
• Section 5 – Conditions of Employment
Remember you need to find out about satisfaction of individual needs
For example, if you want to find out about psychological security, you could ask:
“How secure do you feel in your job?”
You could use a rating question
“On a scale of 1 – 5 (1 – very secure 5 – insecure) how secure do you feel in your
job?”
Or a closed question
“Do you feel secure in your job?”
Yes / No
Then use a follow –up question to find out more information
“Please explain your answer?”
DESIGNING YOUR INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
• You need to create a transcript once you have
carried out your interview – this should be
verbatim and will be in your appendix
Writing up your analysis of your
interview
The aim of this to extract the main points that emerged about the job
role from your interview:
• You must include the date and time you carried out your interview,
where it took place and what method you used to record your
information.
• Describe the ethical precautions you use (i.e. you asked the
interviewee to fill in the consent form and reminded them about
their right to withdraw at any time). Refer to the completed
consent form in your appendix
• Indicate whether the interviewee was a practitioner or client and
which job role the interview refers to.
Writing up your analysis of your
interview
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State what you were interested to find out from your interview
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Write up an account of your interview. Break the report down into sections. You
could use the headings you have used in your interview. Don’t simply copy
answers –you could say things like “When questioned on how her department is
funded she indicated that……” “During the interview I asked what her pension plan
provided for her she told me that….”.
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Make sure you reference back to Section A e.g. ‘In my interview a stressor I
described in section A was identified this was that…’
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Concisely summarises the key information found in the interview, focusing on the
interviewee’s perceptions of aspects of their job role, especially satisfaction and
how the job role meets their LQFs (life quality factors) needs.
Writing up your analysis of your
interview
• Put the transcript into your appendix and indicate
on it on which pages in your report you have
summarised/written up/analysed.
• Use selective quotes from the transcript of your
interview as you summarise your interview – RB:
to cross reference this!
• At the end sum up whether the information
gathered in your interview matches what you
researched in section A.
Do not
• List the questions asked (this in your
appendix)
• Include marginally – relevant or trivial
information For example, how many pets do
you have? - Who cares! It’s not relevant.
A03 For High Marks (16-20)
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Give a clear description
Make sure your interview is well designed
Ensure your interview is recorded accurately
Be systematic, unbiased and comprehensive
Cross reference supporting information in the
appendix
• Use specialist vocabulary organise and
interpret information