Health and Social Care - Top-up

The BSc (Hons) Health & Social Care Top-up is designed for people who have completed an FdA or equivalent in a subject related to Health & Social Care and who wish to progress to a higher level. This course is aimed at people who are interested in pursuing a career working in the Health & Social Care sector. With this top up degree, you can increase the skills required to work in adult social care services, hospitals, children’s services and other related occupations within the private, public and voluntary sector.

Students will study a range of subjects which will provide the basis for a future career in areas relevant to health and social care. The course provides flexibility, with a number of career choice options available. The main topic areas covered within this programme are research skills and critical enquiry skills, health promotion, mentoring and supervision skills, safeguarding, self-management and leadership skills. You can select topics that you are interested in when undertaking a Practice Project to support you to develop your independent critical thinking skills and problem solve effectively. This will inspire you to pursue your particular interests and areas of practice.

Practice Based Research
Safeguarding
Developing Leadership Skills
Drugs, Health and Society
Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Teaching and learning is delivered through seminars, group work, practical experience and lectures, e-learning support, work placements and tutorials – individual and group. Through group working with peers you are given the opportunity to engage in constructive and developmental discussion with each other within an open, trusting, diverse, inclusive and non-discriminatory environment. The academic team seek to empower you to create respectful alliances within the diverse student group and enable safe critical evaluation of cultural and social difference. It is designed therefore to embed transferable skills and to empower your progressive increase in autonomy and engagement with learning, knowledge, skills and confidence.
You will be assessed in a number of ways which have been designed to support your learning and to monitor your progressive achievement. As you move through the course and develop professionally you can expect to become increasingly reflective in your approach to study and to work-based learning. The combination of coursework, essays, presentations, e-portfolios, case studies, reports and action plans enable you to develop transferable skills for working as community development, social welfare, social policy and health sector employees. The assessments reflect the communication expected of graduates in this field and will develop your critical evaluation skills.