Pre-Bachelor Health and Social Care

Bachelor's degree

In Oxford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Oxford

This highly flexible Health and Social Care foundation degree at Oxford Brookes University allows staff working in health and social care settings to gain new knowledge and skills.

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Location

Start date

Oxford (Oxfordshire)
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Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, OX3 0BP

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About this course

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Subjects

  • Skills and Training
  • Health and Social Care

Course programme

Course Content Study modules As our courses are reviewed regularly, the modules available may vary from those listed here.Year 1

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees

A basic module that introduces and reinforces the study skills required to successfully complete all components of the foundation degree in Health and Social Care including team work, presentation skills and academic writing. Models of reflective practice will be introduced for you to use when compiling your Work-Based Learning Portfolio.

Work-Based Learning (WBL) 1

This is the first of four double WBL modules that are taken in your own workplace. It encourages you to examine your care practice, to begin to embed your practice in theory and to engage in any new role requirements you might have. It is the first module that indicates the individual pathway you may take with the foundation degree in Health and Social Care.

Science for Health and Social Care

An underpinning of knowledge for safe and effective delivery of care regardless of setting. This module introduces and reinforces an understanding of the major physiological systems, their normal workings and frequently encountered potential abnormalities that may occur for those requiring health or social care.

Specialist Care Skills – Therapeutic Caring

This is the first of two specialist skills modules in which you learn new skills, refine current skills, and experiment with alternative ways of performing skills effectively and efficiently, within a safe environment (skills labs on campus).

Work Based Learning 2

The second of four double WBL modules that build on previous learning and practice. It encourages you to consider specific aspects of health and social care needs and how to deliver them in practice. It allows you, under the guidance of your employer, to gain and demonstrate new role-specific skills.

Applied Social Science for Health Care Professionals

This is a shared module accessed with pre-registration students, providing an introduction to a study of major psychological and social influences on human behaviour in the context of health and social care. The module aims to enable students to link behaviour, and the development of self, both psychologically and socially, to an understanding of health, health behaviour and aspects of health and social care delivery.Year 2

Social Policy and Welfare Systems

An advanced module that builds on elements of the Year 1 basic module Applied Social Science and the WBL modules. It equips you with knowledge and understanding of local and national policies which influence the delivery of health and social care. It allows you to appraise and evaluate the place of policies on the overall promotion of wellbeing for the community.

Specialist Care Skills – Therapeutic Caring 2

The second of two specialist skills modules which build on your skills and understanding of supporting theories for delivery of care. In addition, the module allows the individual student to identify and practise the particular skills required to perform their role.

Work Based Learning 3

An advanced, level 5, WBL module building on the previous theory modules and WBL modules. It will aid further identification of role-specific skills for the student. The module builds on and makes use of previous learning and concurrent learning in other modules.

Applying Evidence to Practice

An advanced theory module which re-affirms the principle of basing decisions about the planning and delivery of care on available, suitable evidence. It will allow you to explore critically the evidence base of one aspect of care delivery in your own practice area.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care

This module includes:
  • an exploration of professional conduct
  • an introduction to some of the more common legal aspects that arise in health and social care
  • the issues around ethical aspects of care delivery
  • recognised similarities and variations in different settings of care delivery.

Work Based Learning 4

Topics include:
  • self-management of workload
  • recognising legal and ethical issues that arise within health and social care
  • multiprofessional / multi-agency working
  • personal development as a care worker
  • finding and using specialist subject literature.

Pre-Bachelor Health and Social Care

Price on request