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Community Exercise, Physical Activity, Sport and Health Pathway

Technical Occupations Higher Technical Occupations Professional Occupations

Skilled occupations that a college leaver or an apprentice would be entering. Typically require qualifications at levels 2/3 Require more knowledge and skills acquired through experience in the workplace or further technical education. Typically require qualifications at levels 4/5 Occupations where there is a clear career progression from higher technical occupations, as well as occupations where a degree apprenticeship exists

Exercise, Fitness and Health Assistant

Initiate behaviour change and performance improvement to achieve a series of health and fitness goals for an individual or community. Usually working one-to-one or small groups

Cricket

Football

Rugby League

Rugby Union

Exercise, Fitness and Health Specialist

Develop and deliver programmes which significantly enhance the performance of an individual or team

Community Coach

High Performance Coach

School Coach

Exercise, Fitness and Health Professional

Lead and manage health professionals delivering entire health programmes usually with expertise in physical activity prescription, programme creation and delivery

Health Pathway

Technical Occupations Higher Technical Occupations Professional Occupations

Skilled occupations that a college leaver or an apprentice would be entering. Typically require qualifications at levels 2/3 Require more knowledge and skills acquired through experience in the workplace or further technical education. Typically require qualifications at levels 4/5 Occupations where there is a clear career progression from higher technical occupations, as well as occupations where a degree apprenticeship exists

Health Assistant

Provide direct patient contact and caring undertaking routine well defined clinical duties

Anatomical Pathology Technologist

Funeral Mortuary Technician

Adult Nursing Support

Allied Health Profession - Therapy Support

Children & Young People

Maternity Support

Mental Health Support

Theatre Support

Health Practitioner

Provide direct patient contact and high quality care with in-depth knowledge of the factors influencing health and ill-health using specialist expertise

Health Professional

Provide direct patient contact along with high quality diagnosis and care working independently and with other health professionals

Custody

Sexual Offence

Midwifery and Nursing Professional

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care in multiple settings with specialist expertise often working independently

Adult

Children

Learning Disability

Mental Health

Health Visitor & School Nurse

Occupational Health Nurse

Healthcare Science Pathway

Technical Occupations Higher Technical Occupations Professional Occupations

Skilled occupations that a college leaver or an apprentice would be entering. Typically require qualifications at levels 2/3 Require more knowledge and skills acquired through experience in the workplace or further technical education. Typically require qualifications at levels 4/5 Occupations where there is a clear career progression from higher technical occupations, as well as occupations where a degree apprenticeship exists

Healthcare Cleaning & Hygiene Operatives

Provide hygienically clean healthcare environments for service users.

Healthcare Science Assistant

Provide technical and science-based support to patients delivering testing, diagnosis, monitoring services etc. of a low risk, routine nature and also the manufacture of appliances and devices

Clinical Analyst

Analyse and code medical studies and treatments designed to measure the effectiveness of a treatment regimes, drug programmes, medical device or process used in the human body

Healthcare Science Practitioner

Provide technical and science-based diagnostic, therapeutic and monitoring services in support of patient care working largely unsupervised and also the manufacture of appliances and devices using specialist medical expertise

Healthcare Science Professional

Provide direct patient contact along with high quality diagnosis and care working independently and with other health professionals

Pharmacy Science Assistant

Order, prepare and dispense medicines under direct supervision

Pharmacy Technician

Manage the supply of medicines in community and hospital settings and provide advice to patients

Pharmacy Professional

Use medical expertise to provide extensive health advice to patients

Science Pathway

Technical Occupations Higher Technical Occupations Professional Occupations

Skilled occupations that a college leaver or an apprentice would be entering. Typically require qualifications at levels 2/3 Require more knowledge and skills acquired through experience in the workplace or further technical education. Typically require qualifications at levels 4/5 Occupations where there is a clear career progression from higher technical occupations, as well as occupations where a degree apprenticeship exists

Science Technician

Provide routine and non-routine laboratory testing, experimenting and support to a research brief

Science Advanced Technician

Provide laboratory-based investigative and scientific experimentation analyses, interpretations and evaluations of scientific information

Science Professional

Define and lead science-based research projects to derive academic and applied information of value