Health & Social Care
If you care about helping others we’ve everything you need to get started with a career which will open up loads of job opportunities at our Centre of Excellence in Health & Social Care.
We’ll prepare you with the skills the industry is crying out for, but more than that we’ll nurture you as a whole person, so you understand what a career in health and social care really means.
You’ll learn through specialist nursing pathways, competitions, industry masterclasses or work placements in some of the best healthcare teaching facilities in the region.
Make health your future
- Clincial Skills Wards.
- Learn inan immersive teaching environment – the CAVE – with wall, floor and ceiling projections.
- Assisted Technologies and Manual Handling Suite.
- Anatomage Table – 3D anatomy system.
- Wellbeing rooms.
- Expert tutors with experience in hospitals and the care sector and specialists in safeguarding, domestic violence advocacy and much more.
- Collaborate with Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust (WWL), Edge Hill University and Wigan Council.
- Guest speaker programme with visiting professionals.
- We’ll support you to enter skills competitions – former student Millie Gallacher reached the WorldSkills final.
- Work experience will put theory into practice and can lead to a job after studies.
- Trips and visits to hospitals and care centres at home and abroad.
Careers that really count
- Adult Nurse
- Mental Health Nurse
- Midwife
- Paramedic
- Radiographer
- Social Worker
