Health and Social Care FdSc

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Find out about the main issues in the health, social care and wellbeing industry, both for individual people and communities, with this two-year foundation degree. You'll learn the skills and knowledge top employers are looking for, helping you boost your earning potential.

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Overview

With this practical, two-year course, you'll get the skills and knowledge you need for a career in health and social care management.

Learn about the policies and practices top employers expect from their leaders, helping you take better care of individual people and communities.

Find out more about this degree in the programme specification.

Why us?

University of the Year for Social Inclusion (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021)
Gain a professional qualification while working

Opportunity to ‘top-up’ this course to a full BSc (Hons) degree with an extra year of study

Course structure

In this course, you'll learn through academic study and work-based practice, including lectures, discussions, case studies and workshops.

You'll be marked on work experience, reports, presentations and timed tests and have constant one-to-one support from our academic staff.

Year 1 (national level 4):

Applied Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences (20 credits)
Assessment, Care Planning and Identification of Risk (20 credits)
Dimensions of Health (20 credits)
Exploring Psycho-Social Theory (20 credits)
Understanding Health and Social Care (20 credits)
Working in Health and Social Care Settings (20 credits)

Final year (national level 5):

Contemporary Issues In Health and Social Care (20 credits)
Health Improvement and Healthy Lifestyles (20 credits)
Life Course Approaches to the Health of Children, Young People and Families (20 credits)
Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences (20 credits)
Working in Health and Social Care Settings (20 credits)
Working with Adults (20 credits)

Some modules have prerequisites. Read more about what this means in our Help and Advice article.

Entry requirements

We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.

To study this course you need:

Experience in health and social care - paid or voluntary, and
A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. If you want to study part-time, your DBS check has to have been issued within three years of your course start date.

You can apply without formal qualifications, but you'll need at least two years of relevant work experience.

You must meet the minimum English Language Requirements to join the course.

Accreditation of prior learning (APL)

APL is the term used when you get credit towards your course for something you learned in the past. It means you might not need to study all of the course including a module or number of modules.

This can come from:

Previous learning
Work experience

If you think you could get APL, contact our Admissions team.

Fees and finance

The annual, full-time, fee for this course is:

£8,750 if you are from the UK (including EU students with settled or pre-settled status resident in the UK)

Please note: Fees may be subject to change in the next academic year.

This information was correct at the time of publication.

Career ready

Because this course focuses on your practical skills, it gives you the chance to apply for roles with more responsibility and a better salary in the diverse health and social care industry.

You'll be able to work with young people, mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse support and more, for the NHS, age and mental health charities, as well as social, public, private and voluntary companies.

Graduates from this course could, with further training, become social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, or you could bring up your degree to a full honours with our BSc (Hons) Nursing and BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care (Top-Up) degrees.

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Contact

Contact Student Recruitment for further information about studying at the University of Sunderland in London:

Tel: 020 7531 7333

Email: admissions-london@sunderland.ac.uk

Read the full programme specification for the FdSc (Hons) Health and Social Care course for more information.

Page last updated: 22 March 2023

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