University Diploma/Top Up Degree/Honours Degree
If you work in community care, with vulnerable adults or other service users, their families and carers, this course can help you take the next step.
This course is set in the context of the Government’s developing policy in relation to community care practice. It’s designed to enable experienced community care practitioners from a variety of professions to develop their theoretical and practical skills.
It responds directly to the issues explored in the Green Paper ‘Independence, Well–Being and Choice’ and the White Paper ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’, and the ‘Transforming Social Care’ agenda.
Developed in partnership with employers, service users and carers and designed to be delivered alongside social workers working towards the General Social Care Council’s PQ Specialist Award in Social Work with Adults, this part–time programme is ideal for students currently in appropriate employment. Assessment of practice in the workplace is a central feature of the award and it is delivered by way of short intensive study blocks.
Taught modules explore the evidence base of contemporary community care practice, developments in law and social policy. This encourages the development of skills in direct work with service users and carers in a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary context, and the supervision and development of professional staff.
Some of our modules
- Assessment, Intervention and Practice with Vulnerable Adults
- Community Care: Policy, Law and Practice
- Teaching and Assessing Practice Skills in Work-Based Learning
- Dissertation
Benefits
- developed in partnership with employers and users of services
- delivered flexibly on- and off–campus to make learning accessible to busy practitionersdelivered flexibly and off –campus to make learning accessible to busy practitioners
Career paths
- senior roles in statutory organisations eg adult and community care directorates and primary care trusts
- senior roles in the voluntary and private sectors and in the inspection and regulation of community care services
How will the course be assessed?
Coursework, exams, portfolios of evidence and direct observation of practice.
Specific part-time entry requirements
- Degree students require 240 credits at Diploma of Higher Education level in a relevant professional area
- Sponsorship by employer or have support from employer in terms of access to community care practice opportunities
- Ready to study at level 3
Study options
Part-time
Professional contacts/industry links
Run in partnership with Swindon Borough Council and Gloucestershire County Council
Scholarships and bursaries available in relation to this course
Sponsorship by employers may be available
Location
Francis Close Hall
Applications
Application is direct to the university
Contact
For enquiries and further information please contact:
Courses Administrator
Health, Community and Social Care
Tel: 01242 715132
Email: shsc@glos.ac.uk