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BSc (Hons) Health And Social Care

University of Cumbria, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This health and social care degree will support your academic advancement to prepare you for a rewarding career. It will provide you with the knowledge to support your professional needs, alongside developing key skills in research, writing and presenting. You'll enhance your personal skills including communication, team working, self-management, motivation, resilience, self-awareness and confidence. You will gain awareness of professional contexts, individual professional standards and values.

The highly transferable knowledge and skills gained while studying our health and social care course will directly impact your role within practice, enhancing both personal and professional development and maximising your career opportunities in the department of Health and Social Care. You'll be empowered to take initiative, make complex decisions, and generate transformative solutions. Successfully completing this course will allow progression into postgraduate study with our postgraduate masters and CPD courses.

General Eligibility

  • A-levels: CCC-BBC

  • T-levels: P (C+ in the Core) – M All subjects are accepted however we recommend T Level Healthcare Science or Health for entry to this course

  • Access to HE: 45 Credits at Merit –  15 credits at Distinction & 30 at Merit 

  • CACHE Technical Level 3 and Level 3 Extended Diploma: C

  • OCR Cambridge Technical & Edexcel/Pearson BTEC Level 3 (National) Extended Diploma: MMM – DMM

  • Scottish Highers: 96-112 UCAS Tariff Points preferably from 4 Highers

  • Irish LC Highers: 96-112 UCAS Tariff Points preferably from 4 Irish Leaving Certificate Highers

  • Alternative routes: If don't think you'll meet the criteria for direct application to this course, check out our Integrated Foundation Year

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1
  • Developing Academic Writing and Reflective Practice

  • Introduction to Health and Well-being

  • Personalisation in Health and Social Care

  • Development through the Life Course

  • Values and Principles of Health and Social Care

  • Social and Political Influences on Policy and Practice

2 Year 2
  • Introduction to Advancing Mental Health across the Healthcare Spectrum

  • Psychology for Health and Social Care

  • Equality, Diversity and Equity in Practice

  • Duty of Care – Principles and Implementation

  • Leadership and Change

  • Negotiated Learning in Health and Social Care

3 Year 3
  • Applied Critical Evaluation for Evidence Based Practice

  • Communication Skills in Health and Social Care

  • Collaborative Working in Health and Social Care

  • Contemporary Approaches and Fundamental Principles of Safeguarding across the Lifespan

  • Managing Self and Others

  • Negotiated Learning in Health and Social Care

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

The IELTS score for international applicants is 6 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).

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