BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Health and Social Care Top Up

This inter-professional module will provide you with the skills, knowledge and strategies to promote and develop effective leadership qualities, enabling you to work in partnership within diverse teams/agencies across professional and organisational boundaries. You’ll be given the opportunity to enhance your individual professional development needs as a precursor for supporting your continuing professional development and future employment opportunities, both nationally and internationally. You’ll be encouraged to participate in interdisciplinary working with peers, combining teaching and learning activities from a variety of health and social care programmes.

This module is reserved for your final complete academic year of study, and it offers an exciting opportunity.

Here, you'll have the chance to delve into a specific area of the property market that truly interests you. It's all about hands-on research and producing a well-structured report. You'll start by reviewing existing literature, developing research questions, and crafting a robust methodology to gather the data you need.

You'll present your findings following academic conventions, honing the skills necessary for your future career. This process turns you into a critical reviewer of reports, just like the ones you'll study as a qualified practitioner. You'll also become proficient in generating and evaluating new information – something you might do regularly in your professional life.

Successful completion of this module is a requirement for earning an honours Real Estate degree. So get started on this exciting journey of research and discovery.

This module supports students who are registered health care professionals to develop confidence and skill in facilitating effective learning in the workplace. You are expected to analyse the different ways in which adults learn with the aim of enabling you to develop competencies around facilitating and assessing workplace learning.

You will have the opportunity to explore the research process, methods, data analysis and the ethical considerations associated with health and social care research. The module focuses on issues, techniques and skills for data collection and analysis in quantitative, qualitative or mixed mode approaches to research.

You'll explore verbal and non-verbal communication and the development of supportive relationships within a healthcare related context. You'll build on your existing clinical or professional skills to develop them further in practice.

You'll take a critical approach to sources of knowledge about therapeutic and/ or professional communication and relationships, drawing from nursing, allied health, social care and psychotherapy.

You will gain an understanding of the broader theoretical concepts of quality and clinical governance initiatives. It challenges accepted notions of measuring quality and performance in complex situations and explores how practitioners can develop more appropriate and effective frameworks. You are introduced to the complexity of change management and the dilemmas in achieving organisational change through clinical governance.

This module has a focus on principles of infection prevention and control which are applicable to both the hospital, community and specialist practice settings. It is designed to encourage you to develop understanding of how best to utilise resources to contribute to the provision of a safe environment and thus promote both infection prevention and infection control practice and minimise the necessity of antibiotic usage.

This experiential module examines a variety of theoretical approaches to health education, public health and health promotion, and their use in practice. It is designed to develop awareness and understanding of both the philosophies and concepts underlying health promotion work with individuals, groups and communities.

This double module aims to provide you with a secure research methods preparation, prior to your completion of the dissertation module where you will have the opportunity to undertake secondary data analysis. You will have the opportunity to explore the research process, methods, data analysis and the ethical considerations associated with health and social care research. The module focuses on issues, techniques and skills for data collection and analysis in quantitative, qualitative or mixed mode approaches to research.