Health and Social Care FdSc

• 60 UCAS Tariff points.
• Shortlisted applicants may be invited for interview.
• Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure check required.
• You may also be required to register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority.
• APL awarded for Registered Managers Award.

• Introduction to Study Skills
• Interpersonal Skills & Therapeutic Communication
• Biological, Psychological & Social Models for Understanding Health
• Healthy Individuals & Healthy Communities
• Politics, Policy & Empowerment
• Values, Attitudes & Inequalities
• Theory into Practice workbased Learning
• Evidence & Research for Practice
• Team Working & Enabling Others
• Applied Biology for Care Practice
• Managing Health Conditions
• Negotiated Contract Module
• Work-based Learning

What will I learn about?

The course builds on existing knowledge and experience and to further develop specific knowledge, skills and values relevant to the current and emerging needs of employment in health and social care. It will enable you to assess, plan, implement and make sound judgements in effective care delivery in accordance with the core values of health and social care work.

You will explore and debate issues arising from the social, cultural, moral, legal and political context of health and social care work. You will develop your interpersonal and communication skills and will be encouraged to identify, use and communicate relevant information effectively.

You learn to locate and evaluate evidence and research and apply this in your practice and decision making in health and social care.

The course will also focus on your personal and professional development and provides opportunities for you to develop your study skills, meet your own learning needs and to develop and practice key skills in preparation for employment, further study and lifelong learning.

Assessment

The course is designed to develop knowledge and skills for health and social care. Therefore a variety of teaching, learning and assessment approaches will be used and will emphasise the relationship between theory and real life issues and experiences in practice. These include coursework assignments, reflective practice and portfolio work, project work, individual and group presentations, case studies, reports and practical assessment.

Students who are not employed in a suitable health & social care setting will need to find a work-placement for one day a week for the duration of the course.

UCAS is the central organisation through which applications are processed for entry onto full-time undergraduate courses in Higher Education in the UK.

Health and Social Care FdSc L511-, C, FdSc/HSC

This course is run in partnership with the Herefordshire College of Technology (C).

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• Working with individuals
• Working with a variety of service user groups, e.g. older people, people with learning disabilities, people with acute illness, long-term and chronic illness or requiring intermediate care
• Working in hospitals, community, residential and private care facilities
• Personal care
• Care management

The Foundation degree is equivalent to the first two years of study of an undergraduate degree programme. On successful completion, it also guarantees progression onto relevant ‘Top-up’ Honours degree programmes and future opportunities for accelerated routes to professional registration in nursing and accreditation of prior learning against some of the theoretical components of a social work degree.