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Uniformed and Emergency Services

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Uniformed and Emergency Services Support Event

Please find the Presentations and handouts from Uniformed and Emergency Services event below:


Structure of the Course

This Course is at Intermediate 1 level and consists of four 40 hour mandatory Units.

Mandatory Units

Uniformed and Emergency Services: An Introduction

1 Unit credit

Uniformed and Emergency Services: Health, Safety, Fitness and Well Being

1 Unit credit

Uniformed and Emergency Services: Engaging with the Community

1 Unit credit

Uniformed and Emergency Services: Working in Teams

 1 Unit credit

Summary of Course content

The Course introduces candidates to the uniformed and emergency services. The relevant uniformed services for this Course are: the Army, Merchant Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and Royal Marines.  The relevant emergency services for this Course are: the Ambulance Service, Coastguard, Fire and Rescue and Police.  It includes investigating the different uniformed and emergency services and the roles and responsibilities of those working in a specific service team.  Candidates will also investigate career opportunities in the uniformed and emergency services.

Central to the Course is developing the employability skills valued by employers in the uniformed and emergency services.  These skills are embedded in all four Units providing candidates with the opportunity to practise and develop these skills throughout the Course.  Candidates will have the opportunity to develop their employability skills through practical activities in real or simulated working environments, investigations and team-working activities.  Candidates will also be involved in self-evaluation of these skills, seeking feedback from others about these skills and identifying areas of improvement whilst taking account of the feedback received.

Health, safety, fitness and well-being are important aspects when working in the uniformed and emergency services.  Therefore, candidates will explore these aspects and participate in physical fitness practical activities.  The candidate will be introduced to the process of carrying out assessment of risk and will also investigate the skills required to assist others to deal with an unexpected situation such as communicating effectively.

Effective team-working is an essential element of working in uniformed and emergency services settings.  Candidates will investigate the benefits of team-working and the qualities of effective leadership and followership will be explored.  External factors which may affect a team will be investigated.  Candidates will also be given the opportunity to work as a member of a team to plan and carry out a task.
The Units of the Course have been designed to be delivered in an integrated way and guidance on a suggested teaching pattern is given in the Course Specification.

Summary of content of each Unit

Assessment approaches

The assessment of the Course is structured as follows:

Uniformed and Emergency Services: An Introduction
This Unit will be assessed through an investigation; performance evidence of participation in practical activities and candidate reviews of their employability skills.

Uniformed and Emergency Services: Health, Safety, Fitness and Well-being
This Unit will be assessed by means of an open book assessment; performance evidence generated by participation in practical activities and a simulated risk assessment.

Uniformed and Emergency Services: Engaging with the Community
This Unit will be assessed through an investigation; an open book assessment and performance evidence generated by interviewing a member of the local community.

Uniformed and Emergency Services: Working in Teams
This Unit will be assessed through an investigation; performance evidence generated by participation in practical team activities and a candidate review of his/her team-working skills.

Each Unit will be supported by a National Assessment Bank (NAB) item which will provide an assessment package which exemplifies the national standard.

Experience of the workplace

Central to this Course is practical and experiential learning.  It will be important for candidates to experience realistic workplace settings.  This can be achieved through visits to workplaces, inviting visiting speakers and simulation exercises.  In order to provide this range of environments, it is anticipated that the Course will be delivered by means of a partnership arrangement which may include school, college or another training provider. 

Resource requirements

Since practical and experiential learning is central to this Course, it is important that candidates have access to a variety of learning environments.  This could include access to uniformed and emergency services facilities through visits, simulated workplace settings or visiting speakers from the uniformed and/or emergency services.  The use of audiovisual resources may also be required.

Progression

This Course may provide candidates with opportunities to progress to:

Launch event

SQA hosted an information event to support the implementation of this Skills for Work Course on 24 April 2008.  A Frequently Asked Questions document following on from the event is now available to download.


Publication of NABs

NABs will be published on the secure area of SQA’s website by August 2008.


Publication of Learning and Teaching Support Packs

Learning and teaching support packs are being produced by the Scottish Further Education Unit to support this Course. These are planned for publication on the SFEU website (www.sfeu.ac.uk) by August 2008. 


Internal Assessment Reports

Arrangements Document

Subject:

Uniformed and Emergency Services
Level: Intermediate 1
Code: C251 10
Edition: Version 1, April 2008
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