Nursing (Learning Disability) and Social Work with Foundation Year

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Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances. Learn more at www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/health-and-social-care/fees-and-funding

Course summary

• Transform the lives of people who have learning disabilities.

• Spend 50% of your course on placement — enhancing your employability.

• Collaborate with other professional groups within health and social care.

• Gain real-world experience and sought-after credentials — qualifying as a social worker in England and a Learning Disabilities Nurse.

• Prepare for the full degree with an extra foundation year at the start.

On this course, you’ll gain the skills and experience you need to provide exceptional care to people with learning disabilities. You’ll tailor your studies, and learn from other practitioners and students — understanding where your specialism fits into the wider sphere of healthcare. You’ll graduate with the qualifications and credentials you need to enter practice.

This foundation year course is for those who don't meet the entry requirements for our BSc (Honours) Nursing (Learning Disability) and Social Work course, or would like extra preparation before starting degree-level study.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The course is comprised of integrated health and social care modules, based around the central theme of learning disabilities which explore and develop your nursing and social work practice. There is also a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary collaborative teaching and learning throughout the programme.

You’ll be equipped with the knowledge, skills and values that enhance your employment opportunities, give you a strong professional identity as well as confidence in working with different professional groups and agencies to develop solutions to real world practice issues.

Applied learning

Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.

You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements alongside real world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.

The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

Developing The Fundamentals Of A Healthcare Professional
Promotion Of Contemporary Issues In Healthcare

Year 2

Compulsory modules

Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
Essentials Of Nursing And Social Work Practice
Personal And Professional Development
Practice Placement 1
Sciences And Theory For Nursing And Social Work Practice

Year 3

Compulsory modules

Applying Sciences And Theory Across The Life Course
Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
Developing Nursing And Social Work Professional Practice
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
Practice Placement 2

Final year

Compulsory modules

1 Credit Psrb Requirements
Becoming A Learning Disability Nurse And Social Worker
Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
Consolidating The Sciences And Theory For Critical Nursing And Social Work Practice
Practice Placement 3
The Advancing Professional

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