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Integrated Health and Social Care [with Foundation year] at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS

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Course summary

If you want to make a real difference to people’s lives, our Integrated Health and Social Care degree, which seeks to promote a holistic and contemporary approach to meeting individuals’ health, care, and support needs, could be the degree for you. This course explores how integration between health services, social services and other care providers can be promoted to improve both care experiences and outcomes for individuals. With its emphasis on person-centred care, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills to be an effective practitioner in a variety of professional roles. By designing this degree with input from key service providers, service users and other stakeholders, we've ensured that you will experience an authentic and contemporary reflection of the current professional environment to fully prepare you for the workplace. The course specifically highlights a breadth of voices, recognising, and responding to inequalities, and including a cross-cultural and global perspective of care, so you'll be ready to practice in a diversity of settings and geographies and able to understand the needs and challenges of different communities and individuals from any background. You'll have the opportunity to develop and enhance your knowledge and understanding of a broad range of professional practice areas within health and social care including mental health, physical disabilities and learning disabilities, safeguarding, and end of life care. Your employability after graduation is central to this course and you'll be supported to understand the wealth of graduate opportunities available to you. You’ll prepare for your future career through a personalised career development planning process. Practical experience is fundamental to the development of your core professional skills, so you'll have the opportunity to undertake professional placements alongside your studies, which can be in a paid or voluntary capacity. There will be opportunities for you to conduct research on specialist areas that interest you within health and social care. You'll also be prepared for leadership, coaching and mentoring roles, through both academic study and the opportunity to undertake a mentoring role. Holistically, this course will enable you to make a positive contribution to the way current and future services are delivered in a variety of roles within statutory, voluntary, and independent organisations across the health and social care sector. Courses at ARU Peterborough are designed to help you become a life-long learner, ready to adapt and respond to changes in health and social care practice in the future. When you graduate from this course, you will have developed your powers of autonomous and analytical thinking, learned the essential skills needed by employers, and be ready for a graduate professional role or to continue your studies further, should you so choose.

Modules

Year 1: Core modules Literacies in Higher Education Introduction to Health, Education and Social Care Extended Project Into ARU Year 2: Core modules The Body in Health and Disease Integration and Multidisciplinary Working Fundamentals of Safeguarding Practice Inequality and Disadvantage in Health and Social Care Professional Practice 1 Year 3: Core modules Understanding Learning Disabilities and Physical Disabilities Ruskin Module (15 credits) Holistic Approaches to Mental Health Protection of Children and Young People Integrated Care for People with Long-Term Health Conditions Professional Practice 2 Year 4: Core modules Death Dying and End of Life Care Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Health and Social Care Professional Practice 3 Optional modules Undergraduate Major Project Undergraduate Placement Project


How to apply

Application codes

Course code:
L514
Institution code:
A60
Campus name:
ARU Peterborough
Campus code:
P

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

5 GCSEs at grade D, or grade 3, or above and evidence of two years post-GCSE study at Level 3. If you have achieved at least grade E in one A level, or equivalent, you are exempt from the two years post-GCSE study requirement, but you still must meet the GCSE requirements. Applicants who do not meet the two years post GCSE study at level 3 may be considered based on their satisfactory employment history, which must be a minimum of two years full time employment supported by employer evidence and deemed appropriate by the University for meeting the course of study applied for.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://aru.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/integrated-health-and-social-care


English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)5.5With minimum 5.5 in each component

Equivalent English Language qualifications, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University, are also accepted.


Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
70%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
86%
Go onto work and study

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Channel Islands £9250 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9250 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

https://www.aru.ac.uk/student-life/preparing-for-university/help-with-finances
Integrated Health and Social Care [with Foundation year] at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS