Community healthcare FETAC level 5

Well, care support has two elements to it, the practical part and the learner record. For the practical part, make sure you pick your tasks wisely and are competent to do them. Make notes as you go along and plan all your tasks.

The learner record is a whole other animal. It's worth 70% so requires an awful lot of work. Make notes every single day of work experience. Start early and be diligent. I put so much work in to this to get a distinction, my learner record was about 50 pages long and has my blood, sweat and tears all over it! You haven't said what exactly you want help with, so if you can be more precise, I can offer better help.

Yes I imagine so. We had to do something similar, like arrange a social activity, I did pass the parcel We had to show how we planned the activity, implemented it and then reflect on it, what went well, what didn't, what we do differently next time. So there was the actual activity and then the assignment you had to write up after. Our assignment briefs detailed exactly what had to be done. Did she get one of these? Ours came on the same sheet as the plagiarism declaration. The practical part is worth 30% and it's easy enough to pick up marks there. The learner record is worth the remaining 70% and in my experience was a lot harder to do well in.

Edit: Her assignments sound more focused towards domicilary care rather than nursing home/hospital care. Is she doing this through her employer?

Yeah it is a lot of work alright, but if you just want to scrape a pass it's very doable. You can pass with minimal effort but it takes a lot more work to get distinctions. It also varies from college to college. While the modules are all standardised, the assignments aren't and are set locally by the tutor. After the tutor has marked them, they are checked by an external examiner. Having said that, there seems to be a wide variation in the standards. A friend in my class did a similar fetac course to me and also got all distinctions, but I had to put much much more work into mine to get those results. She couldn't believe how much more I had to do. So yeah it varies. But your mum already has the job and just needs to pass. I needed distinctions as I was going on to do a degree. Let me know if you need anymore help.