Course overview

Our course has arisen out of a desire to meet the changing needs for educational provision for practitioners, offering opportunities for flexible learning in an effort to better meet the needs of stakeholders and communities.

The principal aim of our course is to equip you with the knowledge and skills to enable you to provide high-quality, evidence-based care within the community care setting.

Our primary and community care course will equip you with a developed knowledge and skill base to enable you to function in the ever-changing world of service provision for care in the community. The course will provide a rigorous but diverse curriculum to meet the specific educational needs of practitioners working within the community setting.

By the time you graduate, you will be able to assess, plan and deliver solutions to meet the health care needs of individuals, groups and communities.

Additional course information

Our course will enable you to:

• further develop your knowledge, skills and practice to provide and deliver evidenced based care within the community care setting
• promote the public health agenda, assess and prioritise the needs of individuals, families, caseloads, and communities and care teams to enable optimum care by the provision of proactive assessment and identification of patients needs
• manage, lead and work collaboratively in a multi-professional and multi-agency team recognising and promoting appropriate legal/ethical frameworks.
• value, utilise and disseminate research findings, informing and developing professional knowledge and practice
• acquire the skills to be a lifelong learner to promote research utilisation and generation through academic study and application to professional practice.

Module guide

Assessment

A range of assessment methods will be utilised throughout your course. These include, essays, portfolios, learning logs, presentations, case studies, practice competencies, exams, observed structured clinical examinations, and other written assignments. The methods of assessment used will vary from student to student depending on what combination of modules you choose to complete your degree. The focus will be on strong theory/practice links and strategies have been selected to maximise your learning and provide opportunities for you to demonstrate enhancement of your knowledge base and practical skills.

Students undertaking our course will have a range of experiences within their own area of practice, and will be expected to bring these to modules.

Shared learning, based on these experiences will ensure that you not only learn from each other ,but that knowledge and understanding gained during an individual module and the course as a whole will be contextualised within practice. This is a fundamental requirement for a course that considers the importance of inter-professional working in enabling effective care in the primary care setting.

Learning and teaching strategies will be varied and include, enquiry based learning, seminars, tutorials, reflection, self-directed study, lectures by academic and visiting specialist speakers, VLE, and in some cases supervised practice.

Links with industry and professional recognition

Please note that our BSc (Hons) Primary and Community Care degree will not lead to a registerable qualification and is therefore not subject to professional or statutory body regulation. However individual modules such as Non Medical Prescribing will adhere to professional body regulations.

Associated careers

Our primary and community care course will enable practitioners to develop their knowledge and skill base to function in the ever-changing world of service provision for care in the community. Our course provides a balance of intellectual and practical skills designed to provide a variety of experiences for the practitioner. You will acquire effective communication skills, leadership and analytical skills in a variety of forms, to use in your day-to-day work, regardless of the setting.

Applicants must:

• be working in the primary care setting with a recognised professional qualification or have experience of caring for self or others
• give evidence of personal, professional and educational experience so that they may meet the academic and, where appropriate, practice demands of the course

Applicants whose first language is not English are required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language at a level of IELTS 6.0, or equivalent.

International applicants

Due to the specific content of this course candidates must already hold nursing registration with the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, and also be employed in a nursing capacity within the UK currently and throughout the duration of the course. We therefore expect that international students who meet this requirement will be in the UK on the appropriate employment visa.

Entry requirements listed are for September 2013 entry. Entry requirements for other intakes may differ.
Please note all tariff points must come from A levels. Points from AS levels cannot be counted towards the total tariff points required for entry to this course.
Applicants must:

• be working in the primary care setting with a recognised professional qualification or have experience of caring for self or others
• give evidence of personal, professional and educational experience so that they may meet the academic and, where appropriate, practice demands of the course

Applicants whose first language is not English are required to demonstrate proficiency in the English language at a level of IELTS 6.0, or equivalent.