Edinburgh College

• Clinical Skills for Care Practitioner
• Professional Standards for Care Practitioners
• Safe Working Practice
• The Human Body in Health and Illness
• Sociology and Health in Scotland
• Therapeutic Relationships
• Core and academic skills

1. The applicant must have been in employment with NHS Lothian as a Clinical Support Worker/Healthcare Assistant for a minimum period of one year prior to the application closing date.
2. Applicants must have achieved a minimum of SVQ Level 2/Care Certificate/National Progression Award-Skills for Practice by the closing date. Applicants with other qualifications will be considered on an individual basis.
3. The application must have the support of their Charge Nurse/Line Manager and the relevant Clinical Nurse Manager.  This support should be agreed prior to any application being submitted by the candidate.  In the absence of such support, applications will not be progressed. 
4. Applicants who do not have English as their first language there will be a minimum requirement of IELTS 5.5 or equivalent achieved by the closing date.
5. For applications to the full-time HNC (1 year duration), applicants must be contracted to work a minimum of 35 hours/week from the date the course commences.   
6. For applications to the part-time HNC (2 years duration), applicants must be contracted to work a minimum of 19 hours/week from the date the course commences.  
7. As the HNC Healthcare Practice course leads specifically to 2nd year of the Nursing Degree Programme at Edinburgh Napier University the visa status required is Indefinite Leave to Remain. This is a requirement for anyone undertaking a Nursing Degree Programme in Scotland.

Evidence of Indefinite Leave to Remain must be submitted with the application pack by the closing date.