Vocational English for healthcare and social work professionals

Do you work in healthcare? Do you regularly interact with English-speaking people? This course will give you practical tools to boost your English.

The course focuses on workplace situations. During the lessons, we'll discuss your daily situations. Your fellow students will provide input and inspire you. At the start of the course, we'll assess the group's skill levels; the trainer will take this into account as much as possible. The goal of the course is to teach you practical vocabulary, but we'll also provide practice techniques to develop a foundation for continued practice and learning.

The course consists of two half-day sessions of 4 hours each. If you're a receptionist, you'll attend the first half-day. If you're an outpatient clinic employee, you'll attend both sessions.

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact the Healthcare & Welfare contact point via care-welfare@summaenbedrijf.nl.

Through your daily practice in healthcare, role-playing, and practical assignments, you'll build confidence in communicating with English speakers. You'll be given assignments to help you immediately apply your new vocabulary and other knowledge. This will give you more experience in having conversations in English. We'll provide you with tools you can apply in the workplace, and the course materials will be adapted, where possible, to the needs of you and your fellow students.

Meeting 1

• Introduction
• Numeric and Alphabet
• Glossary (with relevant words for target group)
• Tailor-made content for the target group
• Practical assignment (for now, or in preparation for homework next lesson)
• Evaluation and conclusion

Meeting 2

• Review of the first meeting & looking ahead.
• New word list (with relevant words for target group)
• Customized content for target group (as agreed)
• Discussing the homework assignments
• Latest tips and tools