Public Services - Level 2 Uniformed Public Services

This course can either be studied at Wakefield College or Selby College.

The UK's Public Services sector is one of the largest employers in the country. Life in the public services can be challenging, rewarding, interesting, and exciting and you will require a variety of skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed. This course will help you develop all these qualities and give you an introduction to careers within this sector, whilst providing you with many other attributes such as communication and leadership skills, teamworking skills and confidence, that are vitally important in all uniformed public service roles.

Work placement and voluntary work opportunities are part of your programme which will help transfer the skills you have gained into the working environment.

You can expect to learn through class work, team-based practical’s, visits and outdoor activities. Lectures, oral presentations, tutorials, individual research, and group work will help further develop your communication and team-working skills. You will attend a residential towards the end of the academic year where you will be assessed in challenging situations to demonstrate skills and qualities to allow you to meet the higher grades on your course.

Our students have actively participated in major incident simulations involving a range of emergency services, performing a variety of roles. There are also opportunities to take part in Police riot training simulations and many more activities that expose you to the working environments with the different public services. There will also be additional trips and visits to the Law Courts and other relevant institutions.

Examples of some of the units you may study are:

PS Skills and Support for the Community

Employment in Uniformed Public Services

Health and Fitness for the Public Services

Activities and Teamwork for the Public Services

Expedition and Land Navigation Skills

Crime and its Effects on Society

Assessment will occur continually throughout the programme. You will have unit assignments to complete where you will be assessed on both group and individual work. You may also have time-constrained assignments, as well as oral presentations and physical assignments. Each individual unit assignment and the full award are graded at Pass, Merit or Distinction level.

5 GCSEs at Grade 9-3, including English or Maths with a Merit profile.

OR

Successful completion of Level 1 Public Services.

Further Study: On completion with the appropriate pass and English and Maths grades you can progress further onto the level 3 programme, or an alternative programme within Wakefield College.