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Health and social care is a vast service sector providing support to people who are vulnerable, such as children, older people and adults with disabilities or mental health issues. Our BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care final year top-up course offers you the opportunity to build on previous qualifications to develop the values, skills and knowledge essential to good health and social care practice, opening the door to a huge range of rewarding employment opportunities.

Balancing policy, practice and academic training, our course is strongly linked to the UK government’s agendas for health and social care. Our highly experienced and dedicated team will lead you in an exploration of compassionate health and social care, research in health and social care, safeguarding, and more. We’ll support you as you learn how to collaborate across professional boundaries, use evidence to inform your decisions, and gain understanding of critical issues in health and social care and ways of dealing with them.

Our focus is on helping you become a knowledgeable, compassionate, and person-centred professional.

Highlights

• We'll support you as you build on your prior knowledge and learning by topping up your foundation degree, HND or other diploma level qualification to a full BSc Honours degree.
• Guest lectures and talks by health and social care service providers and service users give alternative perspectives, aimed at enhancing your understanding.
• Alongside specialist health and social care knowledge, you’ll have the chance to develop your skills in research, data evaluation, critical reasoning and analysis, as well as in areas such as communication, team working, problem-solving and self-reflection.
• Our emphasis on supporting you to develop study and critical thinking skills will help you to engage with further learning and prepare you for postgraduate study.

Key Features

• We'll work with you as an individual, giving you access to the help and support you need to succeed.
• Our highly qualified and research active team offers a vast range of professional experience in health and social care, as well as close links with the sector, the NHS, and voluntary and charitable organisations.
• The programme is connected with local and national employers through the School of Health and Social Science’s Industrial Advisory Board. This helps to ensure that the course content is kept up-to-date.
• By studying alongside other students whose professional health and social care experience has been gained in a wide variety of working environments, you’ll be able to share in their knowledge and experience, helping you to provide the highest standard of care for your clients in the future.