RSPH Level 2 Award for Young Health Champions

What are young health champions?

A Young Health Champion is someone who wants to make the health and wellbeing of their peers better, through raising awareness, providing peer support and enabling and encouraging healthy choices.

This accredited qualification is designed to help you to understand the key features and principles of health and wellbeing, to recognise the health improvement services available within your local community and to deliver a health improvement message to other young people.

This qualification is regulated by Ofqual.

Who is this qualification for? 

The Level 2 Award for Young Health Champions is valuable for any young people who want to support their peers in relation to health improvement, or who are considering future employment in a health and social care.  

Whether in school, college, university or any other setting, this qualification will help you to support your peers to improve their health and wellbeing. 

Key skills 

By completing this qualification, you will come away with practical, actionable understanding of health improvement, including: 

• What is meant by health and wellbeing  
• Factors that have led to the improvement of public health 
• How behaviour can have a positive or negative impact on health  
• How to make improvements to your own health  

For full details, visit the Level 1 Award in Health Improvement course specification below.

How long does it take to complete? 

The qualification takes a total of 7 hours to complete, followed by a 45-minute multiple-choice examination or a workbook assessment.  

Downloadable documents 

How do I apply?