Health and Wellbeing

Understanding Health Improvement

Royal Society for Public Health
Level 2 Award in Understanding Health Improvement
Ofqual Qualification Number 600/0592/0
Course Leader: Dr Holly Blake
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

Important Course Information

This qualification is aimed at people who have an interest in the health and wellbeing of the workforce. It provides an ideal way of equipping key staff with basic health advice and methods of support which they can then use to inform and assist colleagues.

The government white paper, entitled ‘Choosing Health: Making healthy choices easier’ published in 2004, identified the need for a new role of NHS Health Trainer to be established, to advise, motivate and support individuals to adopt a healthier lifestyle.

This short Level 2 award has been developed in support of the wider Health Trainer role identified in the white paper, for which Level 3 qualifications are being developed by other awarding bodies.

The course can also be taken as a stand-alone qualification to support individuals who wish to take on the role of ‘workplace health champion’.

The programme is usually delivered over one day and assessment is by a 45 minute multiple-choice examination consisting of 30 multiple choice questions.

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