BA (Hons) Health and Social Care

We will continue to follow government guidelines to ensure the safety of all our students and staff and have put in place additional safety measures, including the way we deliver your course.

For Semester 1, we plan to deliver your course through a mixture of online and face to face tuition and we will review this as Government guidelines change in response to COVID-19 developments. 

Under the present guidelines, we plan to deliver your course 33.3% online and 66.7% face to face. We will timetable, where possible, so that you come into the University Centre Leeds for a whole day and you will be in a bubble with your fellow students on your course.

Face to face contact will be delivered following guidelines on social distancing and increased health and safety measures.  You will be made fully aware of the current measures in place and be expected to follow the guidance issued.

Modules may include

Critical Reflection on Practice Issues

Specialist Provision in Health and Social Care

Contemporary Discourse

Research Methods

Dissertation

The course builds on your continuing professional development and current practice. You will develop your research and analytical skills and critical thinking skills.

You will develop communication skills and debating skills throughout the duration of the course.

You will be assessed in a variety of ways to help you to develop a range of transferrable skills, which are useful to employment. Students are able to apply theory to practice within the assignments to develop analytical thinking. Each module has at least one piece of assessed work within it.

We use a variety of methods of assessment such as:

• Reports
• Presentations
• Debates
• Work based projects
• Dissertation

The award adopts Leeds City Colleges admissions policy and criteria.

This course has minimum entry requirements of Foundation Degree in a relevant subject e.g. Social Care (Adult and Community), Health and Wellbeing or similar, with an average grade of 55%, a relevant HND or OU qualification, together with a GCSE at grade C in English.

Students for part time study will need to be working in the sector and full time students will need 10-12 hours per week, work related experience (paid or voluntary)on-going throughout their study.

International qualifications will be assessed against these criteria. Speakers of other languages will need to possess an IELTS band score of 6.0 (with no-less than 5.5 in any one element) or a recognised English Level 2 qualification.

As work related learning is an integral part of the course, a condition of students being accepted onto the course will be the requirement for them to complete the Disclosure and Barring Service process (DBS) prior to commencement on course.

The course structure actively supports claims for Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning.

All applicants will be interviewed to assess their suitability for this programme of study and may be asked to provide evidence to support their application.

Progression may include further study with a master’s degree in social work for instance, or moving into relevant employment.

Job opportunities

• Healthcare practitioner
• Adult and community social care sector roles
• Senior care or managerial roles
• Promotion in current workplace

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As part of this course, you will be required to have an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check and will be expected to pay any fees associated with this. Fees are estimated to be around £60.