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BTS SP3S study plan

BTS SP3S · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Institutions, organisations and legal frameworks of the health and social sectors (institutions et cadres juridiques) & Public health and social policy (politiques sanitaires et sociales)

  • Map the French health and social system by drawing an organigram linking the State, ARS, départements, communes, sécurité sociale and complementary bodies, labelling each actor's legal level (national, regional, departmental, local)

  • Distinguish, with three concrete examples each, the legal forms of social and medico-social organisations: public establishment, association under the 1901 law, private commercial company, and identify which tutelle or authorisation applies to each

  • Explain the authorisation and pricing regime for EHPAD, SSIAD and services d'aide à domicile, and state which authority delivers the autorisation and which sets the tarifs

  • Summarise the main statutory user rights (loi 2002-2, charte des droits et libertés, livret d'accueil, projet d'établissement, conseil de la vie sociale) in a one-page table

Your checkpoint

A two-page system map (organigram plus legal-forms table) that you can redraw from memory in under ten minutes

Week 2

Needs analysis, target groups and social intervention methods (analyse des besoins et intervention sociale) & Institutions, organisations and legal frameworks of the health and social sectors (institutions et cadres juridiques)

  • Build a needs-analysis grid covering quantitative sources (INSEE, DREES, CAF, ARS diagnostics) and qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, observation), stating the bias of each

  • Apply the grid to a fictional territory and rank three priority needs using explicit criteria (prevalence, unmet demand, existing offer, feasibility)

  • Analyse the legal and ethical boundaries of social intervention: secret professionnel, partage d'informations, consentement, vulnérabilité, and how they constrain a needs study

  • Characterise three target groups (personnes âgées en perte d'autonomie, jeunes en décrochage, familles monoparentales) with their specific needs and existing responses

Your checkpoint

A completed needs-analysis grid for one fictional territory, with three ranked needs and a half-page justification of the method

Week 3

Service and provision design, project management (conception et gestion de projet de service)

  • Write a diagnostic de territoire structured in four parts (constat, causes, enjeux, priorités) using the week-2 data, capped at 1,500 words

  • Formulate one SMART operational objective and derive three actions from it, each with a target group, a modality and an expected effect

  • Draft the budget and the evaluation indicators for those three actions, distinguishing means indicators, activity indicators and results indicators

  • Identify the governance of the project: commanditaire, chef de projet, partners, instances de pilotage, and the decision points

Your checkpoint

A four-page project note (diagnostic, objective, actions, budget, evaluation) that a jury could read without further explanation

Week 4

Service and provision design, project management (conception et gestion de projet de service) & Management of organisations, human resources and teamwork (gestion des organisations et des ressources humaines)

  • Convert the project note into a Gantt-style planning with five milestones and named responsibilities

  • Map the stakeholders of the project on an influence/interest grid and write the one-paragraph argument you would use with the most resistant stakeholder

  • Describe the main HR constraints of the project: staffing, qualifications, planning, and the role of the CSE and of the encadrement in a change

  • Explain three levers of team motivation and two sources of internal conflict, and match each with a management response

Your checkpoint

A planning plus a one-page stakeholder and HR constraints annex, submitted as a single document

Week 5

Management of organisations, human resources and teamwork (gestion des organisations et des ressources humaines) & Budget, financing and administrative management (gestion budgétaire et financière)

  • Distinguish the main budget documents of a health or social organisation (budget prévisionnel, EPRD, compte administratif, état des réalisations) and state who votes each one

  • Build a simple budget for a service: charges de personnel, charges à caractère général, produits, and calculate the result and the taux d'occupation

  • Explain the financing logic of a medico-social establishment (prix de journée, dotation globale, CPOM) and identify which part is financed by Assurance maladie and which by the département

  • Read a simplified table of accounts and identify the three figures that most affect the service's financial balance

Your checkpoint

A one-page budget with a 200-word commentary identifying two financial risks and one corrective lever

Week 6

Budget, financing and administrative management (gestion budgétaire et financière) & Information systems, data handling and digital communication (systèmes d'information et communication professionnelle)

  • Compute and interpret five management indicators (coût par usager, taux d'occupation, taux de rotation du personnel, délai de traitement, taux de recours) from a given data set

  • Explain the obligations of the RGPD in a social service: base légale, minimisation, durée de conservation, droits des personnes, and the role of the DPO

  • Describe the information chain of a dossier usager from accueil to clôture, naming the software families involved and the points where data quality can fail

  • Design a one-page tableau de bord with four indicators, their source, their frequency and their owner

Your checkpoint

A one-page dashboard with computed indicators and a short RGPD compliance checklist for the service

Week 7

Professional communication, written and oral expression, professional project (communication professionnelle et projet professionnel) & Information systems, data handling and digital communication (systèmes d'information et communication professionnelle)

  • Write a professional note of 300 words to a decision-maker recommending one action, using a clear structure (contexte, problème, proposition, effets attendus)

  • Draft five interview questions that test a candidate's rigour on data handling and on confidentiality

  • Write and deliver aloud a five-minute oral presentation of your project, then record it and list three concrete improvements

  • Adapt the same message to three audiences (usager, collègue, élu or financeur) and identify what changes in tone, vocabulary and length

Your checkpoint

A written professional note plus a recorded five-minute oral, with a self-assessment grid of three strengths and three fixes

Week 8

Institutions, organisations and legal frameworks of the health and social sectors (institutions et cadres juridiques) & Needs analysis, target groups and social intervention methods (analyse des besoins et intervention sociale) & Service and provision design, project management (conception et gestion de projet de service) & Professional communication, written and oral expression, professional project (communication professionnelle et projet professionnel)

  • Redo, under timed conditions, twenty mixed questions across domains 1, 3 and 4 and score above 70 percent

  • Reconstruct from memory the organigram, the legal-forms table and the four-part diagnostic structure without notes

  • Rehearse a ten-minute oral defence of your project covering diagnostic, objective, budget, evaluation and limits, and answer three challenge questions

  • Assemble a single revision sheet of the fifteen facts you most often got wrong during the eight weeks

Your checkpoint

A timed mock result above 70 percent plus a ten-minute recorded oral defence and a one-page final revision sheet

Milestones

Week 2: You can name the tutelle and the financing authority for an EHPAD, an SSIAD and a service d'aide à domicile without notes, and your needs grid has produced three ranked needs with explicit criteria

Week 4: Your project note is complete and internally consistent: each action traces back to the SMART objective, each action has a budget line and at least one evaluation indicator, and the planning names a responsible person for every milestone

Week 6: You can compute the five management indicators from raw data without a formula sheet, and you can state the four RGPD principles that most constrain a social service's data handling

Week 8: Timed mock above 70 percent, a ten-minute oral defence delivered without notes, and a final revision sheet of no more than fifteen items