Health and Social Care Practice FdSc

Course overview

Do you work in health and social care? Investing in your professional development can be a powerful way to move your career forward.

This two-year, full-time course will give you a better understanding of client or patient conditions, and how to improve their care.

Who is it for?

If you are looking for your next step and currently work within the NHS, another health or social care provider and are employed in the industry then this could be the course for you.

Students have to be employed in one of the following areas and have to have someone willing and suitable in their workplace to assess their practice:

• NHS Trusts
• Community Services Providers
• Social Care Providers
• Other Health and Care organisations

Future career and study opportunities

This course could help you to work as a Band 4 Practitioner with some employers or progress to the second year of a nursing course. This course could also enable you to join the final year of a degree course such as BA (Hons) Health and Social Care Management, secure a management or leadership position or become a registered manager.