Health and Social Care - 2013 entry

Year 1

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees
A basic module that introduces and reinforces the study skills required to successfully complete all components of the foundation degree in Health and Social Care including team work, presentation skills and academic writing. Models of reflective practice will be introduced for you to use when compiling your Work-Based Learning Portfolio.

Work Based Learning (WBL) 1
This is the first of four double WBL modules that are taken in your own workplace. It encourages you to examine your care practice, to begin to embed your practice in theory and to engage in any new role requirements you might have. It is the first module that indicates the individual pathway you may take with the foundation degree in Health and Social Care. 

Science for Health and Social Care
An underpinning of knowledge for safe and effective delivery of care regardless of setting. The module introduces and reinforces an understanding of the major physiological systems, their normal workings and frequently encountered potential abnormalities that may occur for those requiring health or social care.

Specialist Care Skills – Therapeutic Caring
The module is the first of two specialist skills modules in which you learn new skills, refine current skills, and experiment with alternative ways of performing skills effectively and efficiently, within a safe environment (skills labs on campus).

Work Based Learning 2
The second of four double WBL modules that build on previous learning and practice. It encourages you to consider specific aspects of health and social care needs and how to deliver them in practice. It allows you, under the guidance of your employer, to gain and demonstrate new role-specific skills.

Applied Social Science for Health Care Professionals
This is a shared module accessed with pre-registration students
A single basic module, an introduction to a study of major psychological and social influences on human behaviour in the context of health and social care. The module aims to enable students to link behaviour, and the development of self, both psychologically and socially, to an understanding of health, health behaviour and aspects of health and social care delivery.

Year 2

Social Policy and Welfare Systems
An advanced module that builds on elements of the Year 1 basic module Applied Social Science and the WBL modules. It equips you with knowledge and understanding of local and national policies that influence the delivery of health and social care. It allows you to appraise and evaluate the place of policies on the overall promotion of wellbeing for the community.

Specialist Care Skills – Therapeutic Caring 2
The second of two specialist skills modules which build on your skills and understanding of supporting theories for delivery of care. In addition, the module allows the individual student to identify and practise the particular skills required to perform their particular role.

Work Based Learning 3
An advanced, level 5, WBL module building on the previous theory modules and WBL modules. It will aid further identification of role-specific skills for the student. The module builds on and utilises previous and concurrent learning. 

Applying Evidence to Practice
An advanced theory module which re-affirms the principle of basing decision making in the planning and delivery of care on available, suitable evidence. It will allow you to explore critically the evidence base of one aspect of care delivery in your own practice area.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care
An exploration of professional conduct; an introduction to some of the more common legal aspects that arise in health and social care; the issues around ethical aspects of care delivery; recognised similarities and variations in different settings of care delivery.

Work Based Learning 4
Topics include self-management of workload; recognising legal and ethical issues that arise within health and social care; multi-professional / multi-agency working; personal development as a care worker; finding and using specialist subject literature. The module builds on and utilises all previous and concurrent learning.

You should normally be in employment, as you must be able to continue working in an appropriate health or social care setting while undertaking the work-based learning component. However, there may also be number of places available to applicants who are not currently in employment.

Each application will be considered on an individual basis following the university principle of widening access to those who might not have the traditional academic entry criteria to degree level awards.

Normally the entry requirements are:

• The equivalent of 3 GCSE passes at grade C or above, or an equivalent vocationally-related qualification, such as NVQ3 in health and social care, and evidence of ability to study at academic level 4
• evidence of support from your employer.

Please also see the university's general entry requirements.

If your first language is not English, you must also demonstrate that your level of English is acceptable, by achieving a score in a recognised test such as:

• British Council IELTS: normally minimum level 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in the reading and writing components
• TOEFL minimum score of 87 internet-based.

Please also see the university's standard English language requirements.

You will be able to apply for this course as soon as it has been validated.

This course is not available to non-EEA students unless you have an immigration status which allows you to study part-time in the UK.

When you accept our offer you agree to the conditions of acceptance. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.

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