BSc (Hons) - Practice Development
Work in health or social care and want to upgrade your diploma to a degree? Want a truly flexible course to fit in with your career plan and lifestyle? Our Practice Development top-up degree ticks all your boxes.
If you’re an experienced practitioner looking for a professional edge, our programme will provide a stimulating and engaging learning experience, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to be an innovator in your field.
You’ll get the utmost flexibility with our course. Choose bespoke modules to suit your individual needs and select whether you want to study full or part-time, at one of our campuses or from your own home by distance learning.
If you’d like to take things gradually at your own pace, start with a single module, building towards a University Advanced Diploma (60 credits) and then a full degree (120 credits). We make it easier for you to reach your potential because flexibility and choice sit at the heart of our programme, so you can fit your studies around your busy life.
Course Overview
This programme aims to:
1. Provide a flexible, modular structure for negotiating a programme of study which provides a
coherent scheme and progression route, recognising and valuing prior experience and learning
and building on this through a process of transformative reflection
2. Provide an opportunity to develop intellectual, analytical, and problem-solving skills which encourage the development of mature and independent decision making, transformative reflection and reasoned judgement linked to your area of practice
3. Develop conceptual knowledge and practical understanding of how techniques of enquiry enable the critical analysis, interpretation and application of contemporary evidence within your sphere of influence, thus transforming practice
4. Develop graduate key attributes within the lifelong learning context
5. Facilitate your development as a leader and/or change agent, able to respond to a dynamic practice environment
6. Provide a learning experience which promotes the application of a robust client/user focus and a collaborative approach to both learning and practice.
On this course you will...
- Understand the evidence, theories and policy drivers that underpin decision making and judgement in holistic health and social care practice
- Learn the professional, ethical and legal perspectives of health and social care practice, including diversity and cultural issues in the community and workplace
- Understand the need for and constraints of developing reflective practice, managing change and of multi- professional working including concepts and frameworks for transformative reflection, collaborative and partnership working
- Use your initiative and self direction in the development of transformative solutions to problems
- Understand The key aspects relating to your area of practice, in order to plan and execute a piece of independent work.
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