CertHE Skills for the Workplace (Health & Social Care)

This program will equip students for various job opportunities in the public and private health and social care environment with a focus on adult and child care. For instance, residential or nursing homes, domiciliary care, clinical health settings and daycare centres. Students will be able to take up roles such as Care Assistant, Family Support Worker, Community Worker and Teaching Assistant.

Programme Aims

• To provide students with an opportunity to study for an award explicitly focussed on future employability and career progression in health and social care.

• To introduce students’ to approaches, strategies and skills considered essential for employment within the specific health and social care context.

• To provide students with an understanding about the health and social care sector, Public Health and Psychology.

• To develop students’ emotional intelligence and their capacity to work effectively both autonomously and within a team.

• To provide students with a range of learning experiences that are designed to assist students in the acquisition and application of knowledge.

After successful completion of this programme, students are welcome to continue studying with us on our BSc (Hons) Health & Social Care programme.

Entry onto the programme is by individual merit. 

Mature Candidates – experience can often be taken into consideration in lieu of formal qualifications. Grades are important; however, our offers are not solely based on academic results.

We are interested in creative people that demonstrate a strong commitment to their chosen subject area, and therefore we welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds.

 To assess student suitability for their chosen course, we normally arrange interviews for all applicants at which your skills, achievements and life experience will be considered as well as your qualifications. The applicants will have to pass the written test and the interview with one of our academics to be accepted onto the programme.

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.