§ 02 — Become Social and health helper
Overview
As a social and health helper you help people manage daily life. You support elderly and citizens who need care so they can live as safely and independently as possible. The training makes you a skilled worker who knows both the practical and the human side — and who makes a real difference every day.
What do you do in everyday life?
Your day is close to residents often in home care or at a care home. You help with personal care meals and practical tasks and are a safe person to have around. You watch how the resident is doing and report if something changes. You create good moments in everyday life for people who cannot manage everything themselves.
- 01You learn to help with personal care and practical tasks.
- 02You become good at seeing the citizen's needs and wellbeing
- 03You learn to support people to manage as much as possible themselves.
- 04You understand how body and health change
- 05You become strong in communication and care
- 06You learn to collaborate with colleagues and relatives.
How do you get started?
You start with a basic course at a vocational school and then find a practical placement, typically through a municipality, where you enter an education agreement. The course alternates between school stays and practice in, for example, home care or care homes, and you get paid while you train.
The way forward
As a social and health helper you can work in home care at nursing homes or in residential facilities. There is great demand for you and you can build further to become a social and health assistant and from there possibly towards for example nurse or other health professions.
“Sometimes the most important thing you give a person is not a task solved – but the feeling of not being alone.”
Specialisations & levels
- 01Social and health helper
Schools here that offer it
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Where can you read it?
§ — Where can you read about Social and health helper?
Social and health helper is offered at 2 places in the country. The list is informational — always check the latest and complete offering on the Education Guide's vocational education map.
Hovedstaden
01- SOSU H — København
Sjælland
01- ZBC (Zealand Business College) — Næstved
Mentioned in the programme overview
Names taken from the programme's own overview. We do not yet have all of them as schools here, so those appear without a map or link — always check the individual school for current classes, admission and entry requirements.
- SOSU H, Greater Copenhagen Region (including Copenhagen, Brøndby, Gladsaxe, Herlev, Hillerød, Helsingør)
- SOSU Nord, Aalborg (among other branches in North Jutland)
- SOSU East Jutland, Aarhus (as well as Silkeborg and Skanderborg)
- SOSU Fyn, Odense and Svendborg
- SOSU Esbjerg, Esbjerg
- SOSU Syd, Aabenraa
- Social and Health School Fredericia-Vejle-Horsens
- Randers Social and Health School, Randers
- Social and Health School Mid and West Jutland (SOSU MV), Holstebro/Herning area
- ZBC, Zealand (e.g. Næstved, Ringsted, Roskilde, Slagelse, Holbæk, Køge)
- Bornholm Health and Nursing School, Rønne
- Deaconess Foundation (SOSU) Frederiksberg
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