Course description
BSc Hons Professional Practice in Health and Social Care
This is an innovative and flexible part-time degree for healthcare practitioners who have a diploma or equivalent, or substantial diploma-level credit, who wish to ‘top up’ to a degree. The programme offers general and specific professional routes/endorsements to support your continuing professional development (CPD).
A choice of modules will enable you to create an individual course of study to suit your professional and learning needs, and some of the modules offer the flexibility of e-learning.
You will register for a particular route. This may be a specialist route, which will enable you to develop skills in a named professional area, or the generic route, which offers a range of options, from which you select modules that are appropriate to your CPD requirements.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
You should have: 240 credits of which 120 must be at Level 4 (a professional qualification) and 120 at Level 5 (Foundation Degree/ Diploma or equivalent). If you are uncertain whether your current qualifications meet these criteria, please contact the programme leader.
If you do not hold the required entry qualifications, you may be able to apply for a claim for Recognition of Prior Learning. If you wish to explore making a claim, please contact the programme leader.
Some routes require registration as a healthcare professional. If you wish to undertake a route that has a practice assessment component, you must also:
- Be a registered healthcare practitioner.
- Be working at least 21 hours per week in a clinical area subject to an educational audit by the Faculty of Education & Health or other approved higher education institution
- Have a minimum of six months’ clinical experience in a relevant clinical area.
- Have the support of your clinical manager and an appropriately qualified mentor/assessor.
- Have the opportunity to work outside your usual clinical area, if necessary, to gain specific clinical competence.
Who is this course for?
This programme is for suitably qualified health and social care practitioners.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
- The programme will enhance and further develop your personal and professional skills to innovate patient care, and will enable you to gain confidence in your leadership abilities.
- It will provide you with the opportunity to develop critical appraisal skills and apply evidence-based knowledge to practice.
- The programme will equip you with a degree qualification that should enhance your career opportunities.
What will I get out of it?
The programme will help you to develop skills to innovate patient/client care after thoughtful evaluation and will enable you to gain confidence in your leadership abilities. It will also equip you with a high-level qualification that should enhance your career opportunities.
Training Course Content
- Emergency Care Practice route
- Intensive Care Practice route
- Mental Health route
- Midwifery route
- Neonatal Care route (subject to approval)
- Practice Nursing route
- Sexual Health Route
- Pre-Hospital Care route
Expenses
Course Price: £ 3000 Maximum cost per year
The cost is dependent upon the number of modules taken. Each 15 credit course costs £750 and each 30 credit course costs £1500. A maximum of 60 credits can be taken each year.