Health & Social Care, University 1st and 2nd Year (Level 4 and 5)

All course material, including online modules and written assignments

Personal tutor support with 1-2-1 Skype sessions

Dedicated student support

Access to an online social learning forum

Assignment marking and feedback

If you decide to top up to a full undergraduate degree through an accredited UK university, the costs are listed below. Please note, the below costs are for distance learning/online only. You have the option of finishing on campus; costs will vary depending on which university you chose to complete the final year at.

Anglia Ruskin University 

Management and Leadership in Health and Social Care (top-up) BSc (Hons) 

University of Derby

Integrative Health and Social Care (Top- Up) BSc (Hons)

To enrol onto the level 4 course, you must be at least 18 and have a full secondary education. Before enrolling onto the level 5 course, you must have attained a level 4 or equivalent.

Academic Study Skills:

Develop essential skills and understanding for effective higher education study, fostering reflective and critical thinking abilities.

Communicating in Health and Social Care:

Enhance awareness of various communication forms in health and social care, emphasising their significance in delivering effective services.

Introduction to Healthcare Policy:

Explore the influences on healthcare and their impact on policy development. Evaluate healthcare policy, focusing on contemporary issues for policymakers, providers, and recipients of support.

Reflective Practice:

Introduce reflective practice in its various forms, emphasising its importance in health and social care. Connect theory to practice through reflective exercises.

Managing People in Health and Social Care:

Understand recruitment, management, and development processes in health and social care workplaces. Investigate individual management and organisational change facilitation.

Sociology: Concepts in Health and Ill Health:

Gain insight into sociological concepts of health and ill health, applying them to health and social care practice. Explore societal structures, including age, gender, ethnicity, social class, family, households, and their impact on health and well-being.

Principles in Health and Social Care:

Understand the values, theories, and policies that underpin health and social care practice, along with mechanisms promoting good practice in the sector.

Management of Quality in Health and Social Care:

Explore diverse perspectives on quality in health and social care services and learn how it is evaluated to engage and involve service users.

Research Project:

Enhance skills in independent inquiry and critical analysis through a small pilot investigation relevant to your higher education or professional development.

Partnership Working in Health and Social Care:

Develop an understanding of the significance of positive collaboration in health and social care, encompassing partnerships with service users, professionals, and organisations.

Working with Service Users with Complex Needs:

Gain insights into health, disability, and illness issues, and learn how healthcare professionals can empower those with complex physical and mental health needs to shape their own care.

The Qualifi level 4/5 diploma in health and social care has 6 written assignments at level 4 and 5 written assignments at level 5. The assignments are approximately 2,000-3,000 words each. Students are provided support on the modules and assignments via the ‘Tutor’ section of the learning platform.

The assignment unit titles for the level 4 course are:

1. Academic study skills
2. Communicating in health and social care
3. An introduction to healthcare policy
4. Reflective practice
5. Managing people in health and social care
6. Sociology: concepts in health and ill health

More information about the level 4 units can be found here https://qualifi.net/qualifi-level-4-diploma-in-health-and-social-care/

The assignment unit titles for the level 5 course are:

1. Principles underpinning health and social care.
2. The management of quality in health and social care
3. Research project
4. Partnership working in health and social care.
5. Working with service users with complex needs

More information about the level 5 units can be found here: https://qualifi.net/qualifi-level-5-diploma-in-health-and-social-care/

Successful completion of the full level 4/5 health & social care course and final year of an accredited undergraduate degree programme will act as a springboard to a professional career in health & social care services. The course pulls together theory and practice for those who wish to work with people in a caring environment.

A health & social care degree covers a range of issues and helps you develop the skills to follow a career in health, social care, leisure or education. Here is a list of possible career paths you may take after completing the full degree:

• Community development worker
• Further education teacher
• Health improvement practitioner
• Health service manager
• Medical sales representative
• Naturopath

For more information on where a degree in health & social care management can take you, please visit:  www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/health-studies