About this course
Health and social care delivery has always been an area of debate in both the public and political arenas. It was a key feature in the manifestos of the main political parties in the last UK election due to concerns that health and care systems were being overwhelmed by unprecedented demand (Oliver, et al, 2014). With the UK population of over 75™s projected to more than double in size in the next 20 years, and currently over 22% of our population being over 65, demand for both health and social care services continues to increase at an unprecedented rate. Additionally, the COVID19 Pandemic has accentuated demands on the sector and exposed very real fragilities that need to be urgently addressed. This course provides the opportunity to consider these issues and to critical evaluate how to start to make things better by doing things differently.
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All sectors within health and social care provision require both high quality initial education and training, alongside sustained and consistent updates such as Continuous Professional Development (CPD) both informally and formally, through creditable programmes of learning and education.
This BSc (Hons) provides an entry point into several career paths in the Health and Social Care sectors. It is designed to allow students to pursue and apply knowledge and understanding of health and social care whilst following a systematic and critical review of evidence-based practice. Applied research is embedded throughout, supported by objective observation and critical analysis.
It is considered that consistent and high-quality education and learning challenges the status quo within practice and encourages reflection on and in practice, which inspires practice confidence and service enhancement and improvement.
The degree includes opportunities to carry out primary research in work placements, while studying, thus supporting post graduate career opportunities. It provides an opportunity to bolster CVs and build networks in practice.
This flexible, learner-centred programme provides opportunities for those working within, or looking for a career in, Health and Social Care to not only critically reflect on and evaluate their own practice and that of others, but also to enable a critical review of the strategic position of provision, thus ensuring this is contextually ˜fit for purpose™ and sustainable for future delivery demands.
This course focuses on contemporary health and social care provision and considers how we can learn from the past and the present to improve the future for those using health and social care services.
Connectivity to the health and social care sector is key within the programme. The programme team are all experienced professionals from within the health and social care sector and provide you with the opportunity to meet many providers and experienced sector workers.
Carer Quality Award
Bishop Grosseteste University has been awarded The Carers Charter Quality Award ˜You Care We Care™. This ensures that the profile of unpaid carers in Lincolnshire is raised and the invaluable and essential contribution they make is recognised, enabling carers to live fulfilling lives combined with their caring roles.
The Award also recognises the importance of supporting carers in education, i.e. students here at BGU as well as supporting staff who may also have caring responsibilities.
Undertaking the Lincolnshire Carers Quality Award helps strengthen organisational effectiveness and achieves recognition for the valuable way an organisation supports those carers with whom it works. It ensures the continuing development of quality approaches for those with caring responsibilities across Lincolnshire and beyond.
Placements
Placement experience is integral to our programme. We organise three placements for every student over the three years, one per year, amounting to a minimum of 180 hours.
These placements provide a highly valued and varied experience across the sector for each student. This experience is then utilised back on campus in taught classes to enable students to develop their knowledge, values, and skills to become the professional practitioners that are so needed in the health and social care sector. Having the opportunity to experience health and social care practice in different parts of the sector allows students to apply theory to practice and to build a solid understanding of the issues and tensions in contemporary health and social care practice.
We have developed a range of partnerships within the sector with agencies that provide valuable placements for our students and provide sessions on campus. These agencies include:
- We Are With You who provide critical support and intervention with those experiencing drug and alcohol difficulties;
- Every-One who provide support, awareness-raising and training around carers and their importance in the care field;
- Scorer Street who provide quality residential, respite and day services for adults with learning disabilities; and
- One You Lincolnshire who provide a healthy lifestyle service.
- As well as many others across Health and Social care such as General Practice and other NHS services
These placements support interconnectivity between health and social care practice and our classroom based content, thus helping putting theory into practice, and ensuring our graduating students can œhit the road running with graduate attributes and employment skills when they leave BGU.
Free courses also include:
Carers Awareness Training
This training helps individuals Know what is meant by the term ˜carer™
- Better identify carers who are employees, colleagues or customers
- Understand the key principles of the Care Act
- Understand the Carers Assessment
- Understand legal responsibilities to carers in employment/ under Equal Opportunities legislation
- Know more about the challenges carers face and the support they may need
- Encourage carers to access support and know where to find it
- Start action-planning for carer support within an organisation
PREVENT training via Lincolnshire County Council
The aims of the workshop are to provide an overview of what PREVENT is, what it should mean to anyone working within a Health and social care setting, how it links in with general safeguarding responsibilities and how a referral can be made in the event of a concern about a student who might be vulnerable to a form of extremism
