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Complementary Healthcare Top-Up Year
BSc (Hons)
This innovative top-up degree provides an excellent opportunity to extend your learning and experience within the field of complementary therapies to achieve a BSc (Hons) Complementary Healthcare (with Practitioner Status).
Having previously gained appropriate recognised qualifications in massage, aromatherapy and reflexology and relevant underpinning knowledge at Levels 4 & 5, you will be able to focus on developing the skills and experience required for graduate employment as part of a multi-disciplinary team within an integrated healthcare setting at two different placements (one per term).
You will use all three modalities, often in combination, to treat clients with a wide variety of physical and mental health concerns and to support their families and carers. The opportunity to work alongside or observe other healthcare professionals is a valuable learning activity offered by a number of placements.
Work placements include the metabolic disorders unit at the local NHS hospital; palliative care settings; a supported living complex and a short-term residential facility supporting mental health needs. You will have an on-site placement supervisor as well as support from a named member of the teaching team. Alongside attending placement you’ll work as a team to operate all aspects of the University’s Complementary Healthcare Clinic which is open to the general public.
Typical modules
You can extend and develop your therapy and differential diagnosis skills via the Advanced Practice and Health Behaviour Change modules. A major component of the top-up year is completion of a research project. This is often an extension of an area of interest already identified at Level 4 or 5.
Your future
This top-up opportunity will undoubtedly enhance employment opportunities and enable therapists to extend and broaden their potential client base.
Place of study: Llandaff Campus
Course length: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
Entry requirements: Typical offer: A foundation
Degree or HND in Complementary therapies which must include modules at Level 4 and 5 in the subjects of massage, reflexology and aromatherapy
Applicants also require a disclosure barring service check
