About the course
With its strong vocational focus, this Foundation degree will give you a range of transferable skills, enhancing your employability.
This course is designed to develop your knowledge of health and social care, and its application in the wider social, policy, legal and organisational environment, both within the UK and internationally.
The two-year course includes units on practice skills; the law and contemporary social issues; the human services; global health and welfare systems; mental health; and multi-agency working.
Why choose this course?
- Develop your understanding and practice skills, and learn to use critical reflection for personal and professional development
- Active learning is encouraged and you’ll apply theory to practice tackling real-life problems
- Study with an experienced academic team
- A Foundation degree is particularly suited to anyone who wants to qualify while working
- Those applying through a work-based route don’t have to have traditional academic qualifications
- Benefit from opportunities offered by the University of Bedfordshire’s partnerships with local councils and NHS Trusts to recruit, train and develop health and social care workers
Course Leader - Dr Joy White
I have taught on a number of Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses including: Research Methods and Media and Social Change: Race, Class and Ethnicity, Internet, Democracy and Society and Creative Entrepreneurship.
Why Study in the School of Applied Social Sciences?
- Courses developed in partnership with practice agencies
- Our research involving robots, shows that they can improve mental health and loneliness in the elderly
- Part of the SASS change makers initiative
How will this course improve my career prospects?
This Foundation degree prepares you for a variety of roles within the wider health and social care sectors including the not-for-profit (voluntary), private and public sectors.
Roles include direct work with service users in areas such as:
- Children, young people and families
- drug and alcohol misuse
- mental health
- services for older and disabled people
Work in other areas of the human services includes:
- health promotion/public health
- welfare
- community development
If you are already in employment, you will be encouraged to engage with career development and progression opportunities with your employer.
If you are undertaking voluntary work, you will be encouraged and supported to grow your work experience with a view to seeking employment opportunities in the future.
In terms of further study, an opportunity exists for a final year top-up to the University of Bedfordshire’s BA (Hons) Health and Social Care.
Units
- Health And Social Care Practice Skills (ASS078-1) Compulsory
- Introduction To Academic Study And Work-Based Learning In Health And Social Care (ASS079-1) Compulsory
- Introduction To Health And Social Care (ASS072-1) Compulsory
- Law, Society And Controversy (ASS071-1) Compulsory
- Evidence-Based Health And Social Care Practice (ASS088-2) Compulsory
- Global Public Health (ASS007-2) Compulsory
- Managing And Applied Experience Within A Work Based Learning Environment (ASS083-2) Compulsory
- Multi-Agency Working In Mental Health (ASS109-2) Compulsory
My name is Kavisha Prince Anthony, and I always had a dream of studying abroad. Thankfully, that dream came to life since I applied to the Study Advisor. I was able to receive my visa within four days. I also had some visa refusals in the past; I had about six UK visa refusals in the past, but thankfully, it was not an issue since the Study Advisor was able to make things work this time. I highly recommend Study Advisor for your dreams of going abroad, whether it be the UK or any other European country there is.