Health and Social Care

Teaching

Simulation

We use simulated learning environments to help you to develop your practice, knowledge and skills. Simulated learning provides artificial and or digitally created content and environments that accurately replicate real-life scenarios so that new skills and techniques can be learned and accomplished safely. Mistakes are embraced – it’s how we learn and progress.

You will actively engage in scenarios to solve problems within a realistic and controlled environment, it’s a risk-free, safe space where learning can be repeated and success can be accurately measured and mistakes can be analysed and discussed to create a cycle of continuous learning.

The simulated sessions will include basic clinical skills like taking blood pressure, basic life support, introductory meetings with clients to establish a rapport, a job interview, a project-based change pitch to leaders, and the presentation of your final research project to sector experts.

Our fantastic simulation facilities include:

• Bedsits and living spaces that replicate a person’s home
• A prison cell
• Hospital wards
• A court room
• A shop / café

Taught Classes

Aside from simulation, you will also have classroom-based sessions in groups of 20-30. These sessions will include a combination of teaching methods including presentations, group discussions and debates, case study analysis, research-based evaluation and practical tasks. We also supplement teaching with real word experience from guest speakers who have lived experience of health conditions like depression or MS and many more; caring experience of people living with dementia; experience of adoption or fostering. We also receive regular guest lectures from industry experts which has previously included the Chief Executive of the University Hospital of the North Midlands NHS Trust.

Every student is allocated an academic mentor that can help you with your academic journey, sign post you to further, more specialised support, and be a central point of consistent contact.

Assessment

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module normally includes practice or ‘formative’ assessments, for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark.

There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, such as essays, reports, portfolios, reflective tasks, presentations, culminating in the final year independent project. The design of the programme will provide a breadth of opportunities to examine the whole health and social care sector, for example some assessments are flexible as they allow you to choose from a variety of case studies that suit your interest and even allow you to choose your assessment method.

The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

Learning support

In addition to the excellent support you will receive from your course teaching team, our central Academic Skills team provides group and one-to-one help to support your learning in a number of areas. These include:

• study skills such as reading, note-taking and presentation skills
• written English, including punctuation and grammatical accuracy
• academic writing and how to reference
• research skills
• critical thinking and understanding arguments
• revision, assessment and examination skills
• time management

Additional support

Our Student Inclusion Services support students with additional needs such as sensory impairment, or learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

Teaching

Simulation

We use simulated learning environments to help you to develop your practice, knowledge and skills. Simulated learning provides artificial and or digitally created content and environments that accurately replicate real-life scenarios so that new skills and techniques can be learned and accomplished safely. Mistakes are embraced – it’s how we learn and progress.

You will actively engage in scenarios to solve problems within a realistic and controlled environment, it’s a risk-free, safe space where learning can be repeated and success can be accurately measured and mistakes can be analysed and discussed to create a cycle of continuous learning.

The simulated sessions will include basic clinical skills like taking blood pressure, basic life support, introductory meetings with clients to establish a rapport, a job interview, a project-based change pitch to leaders, and the presentation of your final research project to sector experts.

Our fantastic simulation facilities include:

• Bedsits and living spaces that replicate a person’s home
• A prison cell
• Hospital wards
• A court room
• A shop / café

Taught Classes

Aside from simulation, you will also have classroom-based sessions in groups of 20-30. These sessions will include a combination of teaching methods including presentations, group discussions and debates, case study analysis, research-based evaluation and practical tasks. We also supplement teaching with real word experience from guest speakers who have lived experience of health conditions like depression or MS and many more; caring experience of people living with dementia; experience of adoption or fostering. We also receive regular guest lectures from industry experts which has previously included the Chief Executive of the University Hospital of the North Midlands NHS Trust.

Every student is allocated an academic mentor that can help you with your academic journey, sign post you to further, more specialised support, and be a central point of consistent contact.

Assessment

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module normally includes practice or ‘formative’ assessments, for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark.

There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, such as essays, reports, portfolios, reflective tasks, presentations, culminating in the final year independent project. The design of the programme will provide a breadth of opportunities to examine the whole health and social care sector, for example some assessments are flexible as they allow you to choose from a variety of case studies that suit your interest and even allow you to choose your assessment method.

The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

Learning support

In addition to the excellent support you will receive from your course teaching team, our central Academic Skills team provides group and one-to-one help to support your learning in a number of areas. These include:

• study skills such as reading, note-taking and presentation skills
• written English, including punctuation and grammatical accuracy
• academic writing and how to reference
• research skills
• critical thinking and understanding arguments
• revision, assessment and examination skills
• time management

Additional support

Our Student Inclusion Services support students with additional needs such as sensory impairment, or learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

Teaching

Simulation

We use simulated learning environments to help you to develop your practice, knowledge and skills. Simulated learning provides artificial and or digitally created content and environments that accurately replicate real-life scenarios so that new skills and techniques can be learned and accomplished safely. Mistakes are embraced – it’s how we learn and progress.

You will actively engage in scenarios to solve problems within a realistic and controlled environment, it’s a risk-free, safe space where learning can be repeated and success can be accurately measured and mistakes can be analysed and discussed to create a cycle of continuous learning.

The simulated sessions will include basic clinical skills like taking blood pressure, basic life support, introductory meetings with clients to establish a rapport, a job interview, a project-based change pitch to leaders, and the presentation of your final research project to sector experts.

Our fantastic simulation facilities include:

• Bedsits and living spaces that replicate a person’s home
• A prison cell
• Hospital wards
• A court room
• A shop / café

Taught Classes

Aside from simulation, you will also have classroom-based sessions in groups of 20-30. These sessions will include a combination of teaching methods including presentations, group discussions and debates, case study analysis, research-based evaluation and practical tasks. We also supplement teaching with real word experience from guest speakers who have lived experience of health conditions like depression or MS and many more; caring experience of people living with dementia; experience of adoption or fostering. We also receive regular guest lectures from industry experts which has previously included the Chief Executive of the University Hospital of the North Midlands NHS Trust.

Every student is allocated an academic mentor that can help you with your academic journey, sign post you to further, more specialised support, and be a central point of consistent contact.

Assessment

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module normally includes practice or ‘formative’ assessments, for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark.

There is a formal or ‘summative’ assessment at the end of each module. This includes a range of coursework assessments, such as essays, reports, portfolios, reflective tasks, presentations, culminating in the final year independent project. The design of the programme will provide a breadth of opportunities to examine the whole health and social care sector, for example some assessments are flexible as they allow you to choose from a variety of case studies that suit your interest and even allow you to choose your assessment method.

The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

Learning support

In addition to the excellent support you will receive from your course teaching team, our central Academic Skills team provides group and one-to-one help to support your learning in a number of areas. These include:

• study skills such as reading, note-taking and presentation skills
• written English, including punctuation and grammatical accuracy
• academic writing and how to reference
• research skills
• critical thinking and understanding arguments
• revision, assessment and examination skills
• time management

Additional support

Our Student Inclusion Services support students with additional needs such as sensory impairment, or learning difficulties such as dyslexia.