BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) with Integrated Nurse Prescribing - Full-time

This BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course is designed to prepare practitioners for the role of health visitor. If you’re a nurse or midwife and wish to further develop your career through working with clients and communities to improve health it should be of interest to you.

Health visiting consists of developing, leading and managing activities that aim to promote health and social well-being, prevent health breakdown and improve ill-health through working with individuals, families and communities. Health visitors seek to help clients take control of their lives and protect vulnerable members of society by promoting social inclusion and reducing inequalities.

The course aims to help you gain a wide range of skills and supporting knowledge, including leadership, communication, enquiry, advocacy, critical reflection and analysis skills. We’ll support you as you learn how to think, read and write critically around contemporary issues, in order to become a flexible, autonomous and highly-skilled practitioner.

This course is designed to support the development of future health visitors. As a successful graduate, you’ll have your name registered on part 3 of the NMC's professional register.

Health visitors are employed mainly by the NHS within a range of settings. Health visitors undertake home visits, as well as seeing patients within clinic settings. The role may also involve organising and attending clinics and sessions in community and children's centres.

Universities and other academic institutions employ experienced health visitors to work as lecturers or tutors. Some health visitors decide to go into clinical academic research, which is a fast-growing career pathway for healthcare workers. Types of clinical research programmes include master's in clinical research, clinical doctoral research fellowships and clinical lectureships.

Alternative Career Options
Children and families social work
Teaching and education
Research
Journalism
School nursing
Voluntary sector
Health promotion
Health service management
Community development
Counselling
Mental health
Probation

You must have an active entry on Part 1 or Part 2 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Professional Register (or have applied for the same).

The University of Bolton’s BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) programme is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

As a successful student, you’ll have your name registered on part 3 of the NMC's professional register.

Key Features:
This course is designed to take account of the changing healthcare climate with a curriculum that combines flexible learning with the knowledge and insight to respond to industry developments.
Our teaching team has many years of experience working in healthcare and NHS settings, particularly in the fields of child care law, public health and safeguarding.
The course curriculum is regularly reviewed to ensure that contemporary theories are adopted.
We offer a supportive learning environment that includes small group lessons, one-to-one sessions and access to IT facilities and WiFi across campus.