Health & Social Care BSc (Hons)
Bishop Grosseteste University
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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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Course summaryHealth & Social Care is all about compassion, support and understanding both individual needs and broader sociocultural context. Here at Bishop Grosseteste University, we practice what we teach. Our undergraduate course has been developed in consultation with Health and Social Care services in Lincoln, thus ensuring relevance to provision within the community and meeting employers expectations.Health and social care delivery has always been an area of debate in both the public and ...Read more

Course summary

Health & Social Care is all about compassion, support and understanding both individual needs and broader sociocultural context. Here at Bishop Grosseteste University, we practice what we teach. Our undergraduate course has been developed in consultation with Health and Social Care services in Lincoln, thus ensuring relevance to provision within the community and meeting employers expectations.

Health and social care delivery has always been an area of debate in both the public and political arenas. It was a key feature in the manifestos of the main political parties in the last UK election due to concerns that health and care systems were being overwhelmed by unprecedented demand (Oliver, et al, 2014). With the UK population of over 75s projected to more than double in size in the next 20 years, and currently over 22% of our population being over 65, demand for both health and social care services continues to increase at an unprecedented rate. Additionally, the COVID19 Pandemic has accentuated demands on the sector and exposed very real fragilities that need to be urgently addressed. This course provides the opportunity to consider these issues and to critical evaluate how to start to make things better by doing things differently.

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All sectors within health and social care provision require both high quality initial education and training, alongside sustained and consistent updates such as Continuous Professional Development (CPD) both informally and formally, through creditable programmes of learning and education.

This BSc (Hons) provides an entry point into several career paths in the Health and Social Care sectors. It is designed to allow students to pursue and apply knowledge and understanding of health and social care whilst following a systematic and critical review of evidence-based practice. Applied research is embedded throughout, supported by objective observation and critical analysis.

It is considered that consistent and high-quality education and learning challenges the status quo within practice and encourages reflection on and in practice, which inspires practice confidence and service enhancement and improvement.

The degree includes opportunities to carry out primary research in work placements, while studying, thus supporting post graduate career opportunities. It provides an opportunity to bolster CVs and build networks in practice.

This flexible, learner-centred programme provides opportunities for those working within, or looking for a career in, Health and Social Care to not only critically reflect on and evaluate their own practice and that of others, but also to enable a critical review of the strategic position of provision, thus ensuring this is contextually ‘fit for purpose and sustainable for future delivery demands.

This course focuses on contemporary health and social care provision and considers how we can learn from the past and the present to improve the future for those using health and social care services.

Connectivity to the health and social care sector is key within the programme. The programme team are all experienced professionals from within the health and social care sector and provide you with the opportunity to meet many providers and experienced sector workers.

Careers & Further study

On completing a Health & Social Care degree at BGU, you will have developed a broad range of skills and attributes which will make you ideally suited for a wide range of employment opportunities or for further study. Possible future career directions could include work as a Family Support Worker, work within drug and alcohol-related support services, support work in relation to homelessness or family violence, or employment in the fields of community, public or mental health as well as more traditional health care services.

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29/101
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122nd
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10%
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Mia
01 Oct 24

All the staff are so friendly and accomaditing, I feel so welcome already..Read more

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Fiona
04 Oct 23

The student support is excellent, there is always someone available to assist no matter what the issue. Communication is excellent, emails are usually responded to within a couple..Read more

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£13,600 per year

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Bishop Grosseteste University
Bishop Grosseteste University , Lincoln

Founded in 1862, Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) is a well-established academic institution with a proud history of...

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Bishop Grosseteste University
Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3DY United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Lincoln Central  0.7 miles away

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