BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice

Course Overview

• ODPs work with surgeons, anesthetists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure every operation is as safe and effective as possible to save or improve patients’ lives.

• Preparing you for placement and beyond, our purpose-built facilities include an operating theatre simulation suite with highly accurate and life-like manikins.

• Get hands-on experience working in surgical theatres with multiple and varied practical work placements that make up just over 50% of your time on the course. 

• You will be taught by actively practicing lecturers and those with perioperative experience.

• Placements are diverse, and career options are too: you could work in pre-assessment, intensive care, A&E, patient transfer teams, and other more specialized care areas.

• This course has high employment rates and is approved by the HCPC, so you can apply for registration as a qualified practitioner once you graduate. Within 15 months of completing the course, 100% of students were in employment or further study. 

General Eligibility

This course requires 104–120 UCAS tariff points, including a minimum of two A-levels or equivalent. We are happy to consider a combination of qualifications and grades to meet the overall tariff, for example, A-levels A*CC, ABC, BBB or BCC, BTECs DDM, or DMM.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week

Language Requirement

• IELTS (Academic) 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component or equivalent.