HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE students at Coleg Sir Gâr have earned a bronze medal and a highly commended award for their competence in professional care at Skills Competition Wales.
Mared McNally, 17, from Carmarthen, won a bronze award and 16 year-old Jasmine Evans from Kidwelly was awarded a highly commended for their performance in the care category of an all-Wales competition.
The students competed in a day’s event where they were given a task to carry out a professional care service to a 55 year-old female client with Downs Syndrome and a heart condition.
Working to a care plan and partnered with an unfamiliar competitor, Mared and Jasmine practiced the skills and applied the knowledge they’ve learned on their health and social care course to impress a team of industryexperienced judges.
Kirsty Williams, lecturer in health and social care at Coleg Sir Gâr, said: “It’s important that our health and social care employees of the future are being nurtured with an emphasis on high quality care.
“I am extremely proud of the girls who performed their professional services so well that they were recognised by the judges.
“They will now progress to the UK level competition which takes place in Devon this June.”
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