Overview

The demand for care in the UK is growing and is expected to continue to grow. Competent, skilled and knowledgeable leaders and managers are needed at all levels of health and social care to lead healthcare workers and ensure that users continue to receive high-quality care. This degree responds to the growth and demand within the health sector – especially the need for talent and improved standards in management and leadership.

The BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care Leadership and Management aims to provide students with the underpinning knowledge, skills and values required to work in leadership and management roles in health and social care settings in both acute and community sectors. The course provides students with a range of pathways into careers and further study. The programme aims to ensure that our graduates are employable in more senior and managerial positions within the Health and Social Care sector.

We designed the overall approach of the programme to stimulate the minds of students who aspire to become leaders and managers within the Health and Social Care sector. The programme builds knowledge and skills, theory and practice of leadership and management. Classes include active engagement in the theoretical problems that impact the sector. Besides the content taught in class, students are expected to spend time reflecting on how learning enables them to develop both academic and practitioner skills as well as independent study.

Students will be taught using a diverse range of teaching and learning methods, including blended learning experience, flipped learning, group work, seminars, workshops that will be tailored for module-specific help, presentations, simulations and personal one-on-one tutoring by highly competent lecturers with extensive health and social care practice background. Students will be encouraged to critically reflect upon their own practice and consider the role of a leader and manager within the subject area.