Physiotherapy 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

• Gain skills in neurology, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular-respiratory physiotherapy.

• Learn with other healthcare professionals to work in integrated health settings.

• Understand the principles of exercise, research and physiotherapy practice.

• Take part in a variety of high quality practice-based learning experiences.

• Become eligible to apply for the HCPC membership you need to practise in the UK.

• Home students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year.

This course provides you with skills to help and empower those affected by injury, illness and disability, and maximise their functional ability. Gaining valuable knowledge, skills and accreditation, you’ll be ready to begin an exciting and rewarding career.

This foundation year course is for those who don't meet the entry requirements for our BSc (Hons) 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.

This course is based around structured academic and practice experiences. You’ll develop the skills you need to manage diverse health and social care problems – gaining a critical, proactive approach to learning while learning and collaborating with other healthcare professionals.
You'll benefit from a wide range of teaching and learning methods, developing the key skills you’ll need to become a qualified physiotherapist. When you graduate, you’ll be ready to work autonomously and make a real difference to the lives of individuals and communities.

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.

These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways 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.

We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) which governs the physiotherapy profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a physiotherapist.

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
Foundations Of Physiotherapy Practice 1 (B)
Foundations Of Physiotherapy Practice 2 (B)
Personal And Professional Development
Physiotherapy Practice Experience 1 (B)

Year 3

Compulsory modules

Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
Developing Physiotherapy Practice 3 (B)
Developing Physiotherapy Practice 4 (B)
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
Physiotherapy Practice Experience 2 (B)
Physiotherapy Practice Experience 3 (B)

Final year

Compulsory modules

Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
Physiotherapy Practice Experience 4 (B)
Physiotherapy Practice Experience 5 (B)
Qualifying Physiotherapy Practice 5 (B)
Qualifying Physiotherapy Practice 6 (B)
The Advancing Professional

Coursework | Exam

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• Health and Care Professions Council