Program Overview

Enhancing Paramedic Practice (Top-up) BSc (Hons)

Key Facts

• Level: Post RegistrationPO BSc (Hons)
• Duration: 2 years Part-Time
• Starting: January
• UK Fees 25/26 >: Part Time: £1,585 per 20 credit module
• Location: Waterside, Distance Learning

Overview

The Enhancing Paramedic Practice Top Up BSc Degree will enable registered Paramedics an opportunity to study flexibly in a manner to fit around work and personal commitments. The course has been specifically designed to enhance and develop the ability to comprehensively assess and manage a range of clinical presentations in the out-of-hospital environment, using evidence-based medicine and principles of autonomous practice.

Using key leadership skills, students will recognise how human factors can influence the patient environment and will provide students with the essential knowledge to support practice-based education, underpinned by the development of their research skills and ability to critically analyse current research to apply to their practice. This Enhancing Paramedic Top Up Degree allows access to modules which consider a wide variety of out-of-hospital specific patient presentations and supports the development in professional responsibilities as a registered clinician including leadership, education, human factors and academic research.

Highlights

• Top up your qualification to a complete BSc (Hons).
• Course is delivered predominantly online, with a flexible approach to when and where you study/learn.
• Course is delivered by experienced pre-hospital tutors.
• Allows access to level 7 academic study in the future.
• Opens opportunities of employment outside of ambulance trusts, such as GP surgeries and hospitals.

Entry Requirements

• All applicants must be a registered healthcare clinician (HCPC, NMC etc.)
• A minimum of 100 credits at level 5
• Applicants who do not have the required 100 Credits at level 5 through certificated learning but hold an Institute of Health and Care Development (IHCD) Paramedic qualification will be credited with 60 Credits at level 5 if they are employed in contemporary clinical practice. Applicants may also make an additional claim for APEL for a maximum of 40 Credits at level 5 on production of evidence of continuing professional development within the last two years.

Course Content

• PSC3019 Applied Paramedic Research (40 credits) – the purpose of this module is to enable students to understand research methods and be able to apply these to a research project which can be a critical literature review or professional project.
• PSC3020 Emergency and Urgent Care for Special Populations (20 credits) – this module enables students to comprehensively manage a range of clinical presentations in the out of hospital environment considering evidence-based medicine and principles of autonomous practice. This module is assessed on campus so will require one day’s attendance at Waterside.
• PSC3021 Enhancing Prehospital Resuscitation (20 credits) – the purpose of this module is to enable students to improve their knowledge of the underlying pathophysiology of shock, precipitating conditions of cardiovascular collapse and be able to enhance their current management strategies to prevent deterioration. This module is assessed on campus so will require one day’s attendance at Waterside.
• PSC3022 Paramedic Practice Educator (20 credits) – this module is to encompass key issues necessary for health professionals to support the learner whilst in practice-based education to ensure competence and confidence in line with the Paramedic Curriculum guidance (College of Paramedics) and HCPC Standards of Education and Training.
• PSC3023 Clinical Leadership and Human Factors (20 credits) – the module enables students to understand and apply clinical leadership skills to reflect the essential need for safe, effective and caring clinical practise. The students will also develop a working knowledge of what human factors are and how they too influence clinical practise.

Fees and Funding

• 2025/26 Tuition Fees
  • UK – Part Time: £1,585 per 20 credit module
• Scholarships and Bursaries
  • For information on the scholarships available to you, please see our Scholarships page.
  • For more information about possible funding options, please visit our Fees and Funding pages.

Staff

• Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Science
  Enhancing Paramedic Practice (Top-up) BSc (Hons)
  • Bryn Griffiths
  • Ramsay Ambrose
  • Steve Buckle
  • Anya Donald
  • Jonathan Mounsey
  • Vicki Manifold
  • Aidan Ward
  • Kirsty Lane

Facilities

• Clinical Skills Suite
• Learning Hub
• Ambulance Simulator