Edexcel Level 4/5 BTEC Higher National Certificate in Health and Social Care Assignment Summary: Assignment front sheet: Qualification Unit number and title Pearson BTEC Level 4/5 HND in Health and Social Care Unit 21: Supporting Significant Life Events Student name Assessor name Sheila Balluck Date issued Completion date Submitted on Re-assessment 12/02/17 Task 1 15/03/17 Task 2 & 3 Assignment title Supporting Significant Life Events Learning Outcome Learning outcome Assessment Criteria In this assessment you will have the opportunity to present evidence that shows you are able to: Task no. Evidence (Page no) LO1 Understand how significant life events impact on individuals and their social networks 1.1 Explain the impact of significant life events on individuals 1 1.2 Analyse possible group responses to significant life events that occur to one of its members 1 1.3 Analyse the impact for others in health and social care when an individual experiences significant life events 1 LO2 Understand the support available for individuals experiencing significant life events 2.1 Evaluate the effectiveness of organisational policies and procedures in supporting individuals and their social networks affected by significant life events 2 2.2 Explain how others in social networks may provide support to individuals experiencing significant life events 2 2.3 Evaluate the suitability of external sources of support for those affected by significant life events 2 LO3 Be able to analyse responses made by health and social care services to support individuals experiencing significant life events. 3.1 Analyse possible organisational responses to the need to support individuals experiencing a significant life event 2 3.2 Reflect on own personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing significant life events 3 3.3 Make recommendations for improving the support available in a health and social care organisation for individuals and their social networks when affected by significant life events 2 Learner declaration I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own and research sources are fully acknowledged. Student signature: Date: Assignment Title Assessment Method Criteria Covered Final Submission Dates Task One: Impact Information leaflet/booklet 1.1 1.2 M2 D2 12th February 2017 via turnitin Task two: Support Report 2.1 2.2 2.1 3.1 3.3 M1 M3 15th March 2017 via turnitin Task Three: Own contribution Personal reflection 3.2 D1 D3 15th March 2017 via turnitin In addition to the above PASS criteria, this assignment gives you the opportunity to submit evidence in order to achieve the following MERIT and DISTINCTION grades Grade Descriptor Indicative characteristic/s Contextualisation M1 Identify and find appropriate solutions An effective approach to study and research has been applied and effective judgements have been made To achieve M1, you need to show that you have taken an effective approach to study by researching the support available from a wide range of services and individuals and made effective judgements about them (Task 2) M2 Select / design and apply appropriate methods / techniques Appropriate learning methods/techniques have been applied and a range of sources of information has been used To achieve M2, the training materials need to be appropriate to the understanding of significant life events for the new carers have using a range of sources for information, correctly referenced using the Harvard Referencing System (Task 1) M3 Present and communicate appropriate findings The appropriate structure and approach has been used with coherent, logical development of principles/concepts To achieve M3 your report will need to follow a recognised report structure that shows a logical and coherent development of the concepts in your analysis. (Task 2) D1 Use critical reflection to evaluate own work and justify valid conclusions Conclusions have been arrived at through synthesis of ideas and have been justified To achieve D1 your personal reflection report needs to demonstrate that you have synthesised your ideas to make justified conclusions (Task 3) D2 Take responsibility for managing and organising activities The importance of interdependence has been recognised and achieved To achieve D2 the training materials need to show the connection between individuals and the group they belong to through an analysis of the group responses to the significant life event (Task 1) D3 Demonstrate convergent /lateral / creative thinking Self-evaluation has taken place To achieve D3 the self-reflection needs to show that you have taken a structured approach to the evaluation of your contribution to the support of individuals who have had a significant life event (Task 3) Assignment brief Unit number and title Unit 21: Supporting Significant Life Events Qualification Pearson BTEC Level 4/5HNd in Health and Social Care Start date 09/01/2017 Deadline/hand-in 12th February 2017 & 15th March 2017 Assessor Sheila Balluck Assignment title Supporting Significant Life Events Purpose of this assignment The following tasks have been designed to guide your work and provide you with opportunities to provide evidence that demonstrates your understanding of the support available for those experiencing significant life events and the effectiveness of service responses in supporting such individuals. Each task is different and is set within a specific scenario that you need to read carefully. It is important to place your work in the context of health and social care practice therefore examples will be required to support your discussion linked with appropriate theory. The work you present for assessment must be your own and all sources of information used need to be cited in the text and in a reference list using the Harvard Referencing System You will need to research significant life events of your own choosing that have an impact on individuals and their social networks. For example a life event that is associated with the transition through a life stage such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, old age, dying). Alternatively other life events that are related to lifestyle, relationships, health, illness, and disability, economic circumstances, cultural difference and involve physical, social, psychological changes. Task 3 (3.2 and D1, D3) This task completes the analysis of responses made by health and social care services to support individuals experiencing significant life events. The focus here is on your own personal contributions to the support of individuals experiencing significant life events. (3.2) You need to prepare a personal reflection of your own personal contribution to the support of individuals experiencing significant life events. This may be from a workplace or personal experience. It is acknowledged that this may be difficult for you; therefore the content of your reflection is at your own discretion. It is highly recommended that you use a reflective model such as Gibbs model of reflection To achieve D1 your personal reflection report needs to demonstrate that you have synthesised your ideas to make justified conclusions To achieve D3 the self-reflection needs to show that you have taken a structured approach to the evaluation of your contribution to the support of individuals who have had a significant life event. Submission Guidelines: Your submission should be in the formats indicated against the tasks Excellent Formatting: • Preferred writing styles Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman • Line spacing 1.5, Font Size 12 • Consistency in Heading Scheme, bullets and numbering • Consistency in top, bottom and left, right margins • Alphabetical Harvard referencing and bibliography Report Structure • Cover • Title Page • Contents page. • Acknowledgement (optional) • Abstract/Executive Summary • Main Body (Tasks) • Conclusion. • References (including weblioreferencing) • Bibliography (including webliography) • Appendices *For Late Submission policy, please refer to your student course handbook available on Live Campus. Plagiarism Rules and Regulations • No plagiarism is accepted in assignments and students are advised to do the referencing correctly according to the Harvard Referencing System. • Students are advised to submit assignments with a similarity in below 10%. Any student submitting an assignment with a percentage of more than 20% will fail and get an official academic warning. • Reduce your plagiarism by not sharing assignments and doing in text citations of sources used, using the Harvard referencing method What is Turnitin? Turnitin is the software that EThames uses to calculate the similarity of your assignment to any other document submitted in the same system all over the world. What happens when you submit an assignment on Turnitin? You submit your assignment on Turnitin by submitting it on Livecampus on the assignment submission link. Your assignment is then compared with all of the assignments for all the different units submitted on Livecampus as well as assignments submitted by other students in other colleges and books and documents all over the world. The report generated is not the final report. The final report will only be generated after the final deadline which would mean that once the submission link closes and once every student submitted assignments at EThames for the specific unit, only then the final report will be generated. This means that if you have shared your assignment with anybody and they have submitted part of it or the full assignment the initial report your friend got would’ve indicated the similarity, but your report would’ve remained unchanged. This is because the report is refreshed every time that you upload your assignment and then finally after the deadline. After the deadline their plagiarism will be high as well as your own. What can you do to avoid getting a high Turnitin score? • Do not copy pieces of work from any book or website. It needs to be rewritten in your own words and proper in text citation should be done according to the Harvard referencing method • Do not share your assignment with any friend, not even to assist them Plagiarism Plagiarism is passing off the work of others as your own. This constitutes academic theft and is a serious matter which is penalised in assignment marking. Plagiarism is the submission of an item of assessment containing elements of work produced by another person(s) in such a way that it could be assumed to be the student’s own work. Examples of plagiarism are: • The verbatim copying of another person’s work without acknowledgement • The close paraphrasing of another person’s work by simply changing a few words or altering the order of presentation without acknowledgement • The unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another person’s work and/or the presentation of another person’s idea(s) as one’s own. Copying or close paraphrasing with occasional acknowledgement of the source may also be deemed to be plagiarism if the absence of quotation marks implies that the phraseology is the student’s own. Plagiarised work may belong to another student or be from a published source such as a book, report, journal or material available on the internet.