BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care

Our three-year BSc (Hons) in Health and Social care course will help you make a positive impact on the daily lives of vulnerable people. 

This undergraduate degree, delivered in excellent teaching facilities, offers you the opportunity to develop the values, practical skills and knowledge essential for a successful career in the global health and social care sector. 

Led by our highly experienced and dedicated team, you will explore key principles such as professional values, ethical care practices, promoting physical and mental health, safeguarding, and advocating for diversity and inclusion. Our focus is on helping you become a knowledgeable, compassionate, and person-centred care professional. 

Why study this course?

•  This degree is delivered in excellent teaching facilities which provide a stimulating learning environment that will be both engaging and memorable.
•  This undergraduate course offers you the opportunity to develop the values, practical skills and knowledge necessary for a successful career in the global health and social care environment.
•  Our highly experienced and dedicated team will lead you in an exploration of the principles of care, professional values, attitudes and behaviour, ethical practice of care, promoting physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing and safeguarding and promoting diversity and inclusion.
•  Our focus is on helping you become a knowledgeable, compassionate, and person-centred care professional.

Upon successfully completing this programme, you will be prepared for work in a wide range of statutory, voluntary and independent settings. These include: 

• Local authority teams 
• Health promotion projects 
• Refugee and asylum service hospitals 
• Sheltered accommodation 
• Hospices and day centres 
• Residential care units 

In addition, graduates with a health and social care background are 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. 

This BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care Degree will equip you with 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.