Health Ambassadors
Enrichment Overview
If you want to go on to work within a health-related field after College, come and be a Health Ambassador! As a Health Ambassador you will be involved in educating, promoting, and raising awareness of health-related issues around the College. You will work with staff and external agencies to support the health and wellbeing of learners at Solihull Sixth Form College. In previous years, our Health Ambassadors have run workshops on healthy and toxic relationships, drug and alcohol awareness and promoting healthy eating habits. The Health Ambassadors have worked with organisations such as Umbrella, Urban Heard and Solihull MBC.
Anyone interested in health-related matters will thrive in this enrichment. If you are intending to follow a career in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, teaching or any people-facing role, this enrichment will give you the opportunity to increase your confidence, develop communication skills and work alongside external agencies delivering health-related education. In 2022-2023, the Health Ambassadors promoted the following health-related issues: World Aids Day, Autism Awareness Week and Mental Health Awareness Week. The Health Ambassadors also ran a series of workshop during Valentine’s week that promoted healthy relationships, identified the signs of sexual harassment and discussed what coercive relationships are.
September to July of Year 12.
A weekly meeting for the duration of the enrichment. This will change depending on the health campaign you are involved in. Learners will be expected to initiate their own health promotion campaign at the College.
Nothing – just a willingness to give up some of your time.
Students in Year 12 who are interested in health-related matters and study subjects related to health or plan to study / get employment in medicine, nursing, social work, teaching or other related health care courses.
At enrolment. It is not possible to do another enrichment alongside this.