Why choose this course

This course will promote and develop standards in care and give individuals the opportunity to explore and develop their interest in the industry. Learners will have the opportunity to progress to the generic top-up course or pursue more specific professional routes.

The Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care practice is a course that delivers the specialist knowledge and skills required in practice whilst being underpinned by broad based academic learning. With an equal balance of theory and practice the course is designed to meet the development needs of the individual employee and the needs of the service.

Course structure and content

The overall aim of the course is to prepare an Assistant Practitioner
to work with a specified range of skills in partnership with others within national, regional and local employment arenas. The skills are based within the following categories:

Technical and work-related skills
Key and generic skills
Increased understanding of the world of work.

Employment involvement study themes running through the course include:

• Concepts of health and wellbeing
• Socio-economic, biological, psychological perspectives of health
• Essence of care benchmarks
• Ethical and legal aspects of practice
• Personal and professional development
• Practice management
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Diversity and inclusion
• Physical, psychological and social implications of discriminatory practice
• Health and social needs of a diverse population
• Research design and methodologies
• Evidence based practice
• Inter-professional working and integrated teams
• Decision making and problem solving strategies
• Health promotion
• Risk management.