Health & Social Care

This exciting degree provides inter-professional learning if you are looking to follow a career in Health and Social Care.

It will equip you with the knowledge, theory and skills required for a range of career options, including policy, research, leadership and management. You will be taught by research active staff with industry-based expertise, as well as a variety of guest speakers from the sector including Health and Social Care Wales.

In year two, you will undertake a compulsory work placement which will provide you with valuable real-world experience with key Health and Social Care employers and service providers. You will benefit from our strong partnership links, with placement settings including the local and central government, third sector organisations, the NHS, drug and alcohol services and the St Johns Ambulance. You can also gain an additional Level 5 Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) qualification, in addition to your degree.

Throughout, you will gain the vital skills and expertise required to enter leadership roles in the health and social care sector. In addition, our innovative Social Entrepreneurship module in year three will give you the chance to design, develop and pitch a social business idea relevant to the Health and Social Care sector, to a group of industry experts, whilst developing your business start-up acumen.

There is a strong emphasis on creative research methods in each year of study, so you understand the connection between health and social care industry discoveries, leading to research, and subsequent government funded policies. This culminates in an academic research poster exhibition, prior to you completing your dissertation on a relevant topic of your choosing.

Your studies will focus on three core themes:

• Health and Social Care through the Lifespan

• Global Health and Social Care

• Mental Health

Place of study: Llandaff Campus

Course length: 2-4 years full-time, dependent upon taking the HND/ Degree and foundation year (see page 126)

Entry requirements: Typical offers: HND: 64 UCAS points

Degree: 96 UCAS points

*Please note. This degree is undergoing periodic review in 2023. As such modules listed here may change. Please refer to our website for the most up to date information before making an application.

• For students undertaking the HND, upon successful completion you can progress to year three of the BSc (Hons) degree.

• The degree opens a wide range of career paths including working in the voluntary, charitable and private sectors. Graduates have gone into various roles such as volunteer co-ordinator, care home manager, youth offending service team leader, residential support worker, policy officer and more.

• Graduates will also be fully equipped for social enterprise and business start-up opportunities.

• This degree also provides an ideal platform to progress to postgraduate study or further vocational training in nursing, midwifery, social work and allied fields.