FdA Health and Social Care full time

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

• Communication and ICT
• Legal and Ethical Issues
• Introduction to Social Policy
• Using Evidence
• Principles of Care
• Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care
• Group Dynamics and Working in Teams
• Collaborative Health and Social Care
• Planning Care Delivery
• Health Promotion - Challenges and Opportunities
• Mental Health Care, Perspectives and Practice
• Working with Older People
• Disability and Society
• Working with Young People
• Clinical Skills
• Therapy Skills
• Children and Families
• Introduction to Psychology in Health and Social Care
• Management of Long-Term Conditions
• Acute Illness Management
• End of Life and Palliative Care
• Social Inclusion, Empowerment and Health

Teaching, Learning And Assessment

To make this course as engaging and beneficial as possible for you, we apply a range of learning, teaching and assessment methods designed to help you develop the skills, knowledge and competencies you’re aiming for. Just as importantly, we aim to help you develop the values and attitudes essential to good health and social care practice. Learning focuses on the workplace environment.

To complement lectures that introduce the course content, seminars and group-based activities allow you to explore subjects, policies and practices in greater detail. Tutorials give you the opportunity to clarify your understanding of the topics we cover in lectures and seminars, while we use case studies, practical scenarios and role-playing to help you apply your newly acquired knowledge and theory to real-life problems and gain valuable insights into health and social care practice. You’ll also have the chance to develop your practical skills in our clinical skills laboratory, and we’ll encourage you to use our extensive online learning resources to support your self-directed learning.

In addition, we offer masterclasses with practitioners from the health and social care sector, plus insightful sessions with guest speakers who either provide or use health and social care services.

Our assessment methods are designed to reflect what may one day be required of you in a health and social care setting. For example, the course requires you to submit written reports, give presentations, develop your practice portfolio, analyse care plans and review relevant literature, and analyse complex cases and discuss how to manage change. Meanwhile, we expect you to write essays and reflective accounts, take practical and written tests, and play an active part in group discussions. Some assessments contribute to your final module marks, while others are designed to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, and where you can seek extra support from course tutors.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.