Health, Wellbeing and Social Care Management
Learn about all aspects of an individual's journey through the health and social care pathway
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Key Course Details
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UCAS Code
L510
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,535*
International students
£16,200*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£785*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
A health, wellbeing and social care management degree assists students to recognise the necessity to lead with inspiration in this sector. It also helps aspiring managers to recognise their potential to apply skilful approaches.
DESIGNED FOR
Whether you are currently working in health, wellbeing and social care, or aspire to, this course is designed to help you develop your career pathway, apply informed practice and engage in study related to contemporary practice.
Accredited By
- The Institute of Health and Social Care Management
Career Paths
- All Wales Graduate Programme
- Community Services Manager
- Liaison Officer/Manager (multi sector)
- Housing, People Partner
- Entrepreneurship, social enterprise
Skills Taught
- Critically evaluation
- Analytical skills
- Effective communication
Course Highlights
Module Overview
- Study Skills for Higher Education
- Investigating Health and Wellbeing
- Law, Ethics and Policy
- Professional Development 1
- Fundamentals of Leading and Managing in Health, Wellbeing and Social Care Practice
- Wellbeing in Communities and Society
- Professional Development 2
- Communication & Intervention
- Integrated Leadership & Management
- Applying Research to Practice
- Introduction to Disaster Healthcare (optional)
- Reducing Population Health Inequalities (optional)
- Project Module
- Contemporary Issues
- Leading and Managing Change
- Leadership, Management and Co-ordination in Health and Social Care (optional)
- Professional Development 3
- Train the Trainer (Health and Social Care) (optional)
Course Highlights
How you'll learn
Our students benefit from excellent academic and pastoral support, as well as being taught by research-active staff who have strong partnerships with health, wellbeing, and social care sectors.
Assessment methods replicate those activities required in the workplace such as report
writing, presentations, developing academic posters, reflective writing, work-based
portfolios, literature reviews, analysing complex cases and managing change.
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Teaching staff
Our students benefit from excellent academic and pastoral support, as well as being taught by research-active staff who have strong partnerships with health, wellbeing, and social care sectors.
- Tania Davies (Course Leader)
- Tanya Phillips
- Paul Griffiths
- Katie Wiergowski
- John Whitcher
- Stephane Nzouekon
- Temilade Adeleke
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Placements
The health, wellbeing and social care management course has a multi-agency approach that encompasses social services, the NHS, third and independent sectors.
Students will benefit from researching a range of opportunities enabling them to choose
their work based learning opportunities in a range of settings. This will enable students to work with a variety of people and in multi-agency environments, or progress onto applications for post graduate study or programmes.
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Facilities
Our Hydra Simulation Centre - the only one in Wales - helps you practise dealing with realistic work based scenarios. The opportunities given in the simulation suite promotes student experience in an immersive environment. It is a supportive way to test students ability to make decisions, take action and see the consequences.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
UCAS Points: 96 (or above)
Typical qualification requirements:
- A Level: CCC to exclude General Studies
- Welsh BACC: Grade C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and CC at A Level to exclude General Studies
- BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma Merit Merit Merit
- Access to HE: Pass the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 96 UCAS tariff points
Additional Requirements:
The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.
An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child & Adult Workforce and Child & Adult Barring List and subscription to the DBS Update Service is required. (Overseas equivalent required for non-uk applicants).
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£9,535
per year*£16,200
per year*£785
per 20 credits*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
*Obligatory
Students will be expected to pay for a DBS or certificate of good behaviour from their home country. The DBS fee includes £49.50 for the enhanced DBS certificate, the Post Office Administration fee and the online administration fee
Cost: £64.74
Subscription required for each year of the course for a yearly fee of £16. Please note the service has to be joined within 30 days of receipt of your enhanced DBS certificate
Cost: £16
Students on work placement will need to pay for their own travel and subsistence costs. Costs will vary depending on location.
University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
Life at USW
Halls are a big part of your student experience and there’s accommodation at all three of our locations. If you don’t want to live near the campus, there are great transport links to keep you connected.
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How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS. You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)
Advanced entry
If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
International admissions
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.
