CertHE Community Health and Wellbeing - University of South Wales

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UCAS Code

4A82
Start Date

September
Location

Pontypridd
Campus Code

A

Fees

Home students

£9,250*
International students

£16,200*
Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

Overview
Module Overview
Entry Requirements
Fees and Funding
Course Highlights
Next Steps

The Cert HE in Community Health and Wellbeing offers the opportunity to experience university life, develop strong study skills for higher education, and begin to engage in professional development for health careers.

Career Paths

Community Health Worker
Nurse
Midwife
Allied Health Professional

Skills taught

Leadership
Project planning and communication
Creative problem solving

Module Overview

Students will develop an understanding of health and wellbeing, legal and ethical aspects that govern the way we work in health, and an understanding of human health and disease.

Professional Development 1

Study Skills for Higher Education

Investigating Health & Wellbeing

Law, Ethics and Policy

Human Health and Disease

Course Highlights

How you'll learn

The course is delivered using a variety of methods including lectures, seminars, workshops, group work activities and practical sessions.

Students will receive approximately 12 hours per week of classroom contact with an expectation that students do roughly the same amount of individual study outside of the classroom.

Assessment for the course is varied with a wide range of assessments including Essay, MCQ test, Exam (only one), Presentation, Poster presentation, Assessment centre, Group work task.

Teaching staff

Paul Griffiths, Course Leader
Owain Jones
Katie Wiergowski
Tanya Phillips
Teresa Filipponi
Ghazala Begum
Tania Davies

We also have good relationships with employers and regularly bring in guest speakers to talk about working in their organisations and highlighting potential paid work, work experience and volunteering roles available to students.

Careers and Employability

Graduate Careers

We work closely with the USW Careers department and bring them in on the Professional Development module to help with understanding careers in health and various elements of professional development such as CV writing, personal development planning, interview skills, graduate attributes, etc.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

A Level: CC
Welsh BACC: Pass the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Diploma with Grade C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and C at A Level
BTEC: BTEC Diploma Merit Merit
Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 64 UCAS Tariff points

Additional requirements include:

The University normally requires a minimum 3 GCSEs including Mathematics and English at Grade C/Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent but consideration is given to individual circumstances.

How to apply

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.

Contextual Admissions Policy

Fees and Funding

UK Full-time Fee

£9,250

per year*

International Full-time Fee

£16,200

per year*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy. We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Bursaries Cost of Living Support

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.

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.

Studying at USW

Our courses are designed with industry leaders and provide the practical skills and experiences industry demands. Our flexible courses reflect the need for life-long learning. If you value education in practice, not just in theory, then USW is for you.

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Postgraduate fees and funding

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Community Health and Wellbeing

Key Course Details

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Fees

Home students

International students

UCAS Code

Start Date

Location

Campus Code

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