Our four-year Health and Social Care course will equip you with the values, skills and knowledge you need to enjoy a successful career in this important sector and make a difference in the daily lives of vulnerable people.
The programme is delivered in excellent teaching facilities that provide a stimulating learning environment that will be both engaging and memorable. Led by our highly experienced and dedicated team, you will explore:
⦁ The principles of care
⦁ Professional values
⦁ Attitudes and behaviour
⦁ Ethical practice of care,
⦁ Promoting physical and mental health
⦁ Emotional wellbeing
⦁ Safeguarding
⦁ Promoting diversity and inclusion.
By embracing each of these elements, you will become a knowledgeable, compassionate and person-centred care professional.
This foundation year degree will also enable you to develop a range of key transferable employability skills, including written and verbal communication skills, IT skills, and the ability to work independently and in a team, research and data analysis skills, and the ability to provide support and guidance.
⦁ This degree will give you a good foundation, allowing you to work in a wide range of statutory, voluntary and independent settings, including local authority teams, health promotion projects, refugee and asylum service hospitals, sheltered accommodation, hospices and day centres, and residential care units.
⦁ Graduates with a health and social care background are also in a good position to be considered for careers in health education and health promotion, welfare, health research, community mental health and commissioning and care management services.
⦁ Graduates may seek roles as service managers and coordinators, in advocacy, education and training, or as technicians and support workers helping children and families, older and disabled people, drug and alcohol abusers, and people with mental health problems.
LOCATION
Regent College London
DURATION
4 Year
STUDY MODE
In person
FEES
£ 9,535 per year
A degree in health and social care looks at health in its broad context and investigates contemporary health issues. There’s a growing demand for health and social care workers who are not restricted by boundaries and can work flexibly to accommodate the increasingly complex health and social care needs of individuals, families and communities.
This Foundation Year degree will also enable you to develop a range of key transferable employability skills, including written and verbal communication skills, IT skills, and the ability to work independently and in a team, research and data analysis skills, and the ability to provide support and guidance.
Other entry requirements apply to this programme these are: You should have a minimum of two GCE A2-level passes (or equivalent), including any subjects; and five GCSEs at grade C or above (or equivalent), including English Language. If English is not your first language you will need to complete a Secure English Language Test at IELTS 5.0 with no less than 4.5 in any band (or equivalent). You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
Additional Criteria
⦁ If you didn’t study GCSEs, please contact us for details of other acceptable qualifications.
⦁ If you have non-traditional entry qualifications and relevant experience, or a suitable portfolio of work that we consider a reasonable substitute for the qualifications we typically accept for this course, then we’ll be happy to consider your application.
⦁ Some work placements (taken during Level HE5 of the course) involve regular unsupervised access to children and/or vulnerable adults, also known as regulated activity. If you’ll be undertaking a placement that involves regulated activity you’ll have to get an Enhanced Disclosure certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) beforehand. Charges are payable to cover the cost of the DBS Enhanced Disclosure application and annual registration with the online Update Service. You don’t need to apply for DBS Enhanced Disclosure before starting the course.
Additional Admission Matters
⦁ DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Check
