Program Overview

MSc Social Care, Health and Wellbeing

Course Overview

Our one-year MSc Social Care, Health and Wellbeing offers an excellent opportunity to gain an advanced understanding of the health and social care sector, as well as areas such as equality, diversity and collaboration.

This programme is designed to equip you with an advanced awareness and understanding of the health and social care sector and the challenges that it faces. Specialist modules will broaden your understanding of key areas such as equality and diversity, integration and collaboration.

In addition, you will develop enhanced critical and evaluative awareness of the current and emerging issues within health and social care practice.

Once you have qualified, you will have gained specific academic knowledge and practical skills that can be applied in your existing or future career. Alongside this, we will help you build lifelong learning skills that you can reflect on, articulate and translate into everyday life.

Why study this course?

• This degree will give you a good foundation, allowing you to work in a wide range of statutory, voluntary and independent settings, including local authority teams, health promotion projects, refugee and asylum service hospitals, sheltered accommodation, hospices and day centres, and residential care units.
• The demand for skilled and qualified health and social care workers is increasing and is fostered by transformative changes in the healthcare sector.
• After successfully completing this programme, you will be able to demonstrate systematic knowledge and understanding of a range of health and social care-related principles, concepts, and values.
• We focus on supporting you to integrate these ideas with your existing knowledge of social care, health, and wellbeing, helping you to achieve career success and champion the uniqueness of individuals, carers, and their families.

Modules

• Dissertation (HSC7006)
• Postgraduate Preparation for Research Design (HSC7004)
• Critical Reading and Writing Skills (HSC7002)
• Equality and Diversity for Human Services (HSC7003)
• Leadership and Innovation (HSC7005)
• Contemporary Issues, Policy, and Practice (HSC7001)
• Collaborative and Integration in Health and Social Care (HSC7007)
• Person-Centered Approaches and Service User Involvement in Health and Social Care (HSC7008)

Career progression

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be prepared to explore careers in many different fields, in the UK and abroad. These include:

• Multi-agency teams
• Health promotion projects
• Refugee and asylum services
• Hospitals
• Sheltered accommodation
• Hospices
• Day centres
• Residential care units

As a graduate of this programme, you may also choose to progress to study at doctorate-level in health and social care or a related field.

Entry Requirements

You are normally expected to have successfully completed an honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject and have appropriate work experience.

You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.

• Your application form will need to be accompanied by a reflective overview of the managerial responsibilities you have undertaken to date.
• A minimum of two years’ relevant work experience is required
• A letter of reference on headed paper from the current/most recent employer must be provided, clearly showing length of employment and a breakdown of roles and responsibilities

If English isn’t your first language you will also need IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications.