Health Professions

We offer incredible clinical simulation facilities and outpatient clinics that emulate a diverse range hospital, community, and clinical settings.

Your future

Work towards a career that provides life-changing healthcare.

Replicating real-life

Incredible clinical simulation facilities and outpatient clinics on campus.

Practice makes practitioners

Prepare for practise in a safe environment before entering the workplace.

Make a difference

Work towards a career that provides life-changing healthcare.

ODP students racticing how to find veins on a activity dummy.

A group of students taking the blood pressure reading of another student whilst a lecturer observes

Occupational therapy student helping a patient in the kitchen of the community flat

Students practising technical skills in a theatre setting.

Lecturer, Rhys Shorney talking to students during a practical session

Occupational Therapy - BSc (Hons)

As an occupational therapist you will enable and empower individuals, communities, and populations to live their best lives at home, at work and everywhere else, helping others to overcome daily challenges, whether learning at school, going to work, playing sport or simply doing the dishes.

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Operating Department Practice (ODP) - BSc (Hons)

This course has been designed to equip students with the skills required to deliver the most effective care and up-to-date practice as possible, enabling students to qualify and apply to register as an Operating Department Practitioner with the HCPC.

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Physiotherapy - BSc (Hons)

The physiotherapy part-time degree at USW is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge to flourish as an innovative and autonomous professional across an expansive range of settings within various practice settings.

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Did you know?

Lecturer, Jonathon Duffin using a dummy in the clinical simulation centre during a practical session with students observing

Health Professions at USW is 2nd in the UK (Guardian University Guide 2026)
Guaranteed clinical training on placement under expert supervision.

Did you know?

Health Professions at USW is top in the UK for value added

(Guardian University Guide 2026)

Health Professions at USW is 2nd in the UK (Guardian University Guide 2026)
Guaranteed clinical training on placement under expert supervision.

In the heart of the action

Noah Beuschel

Operating Department Practice student

Exterior shot of the University Clinical Simulation Centre, Tramsheds.

Inspired to become a therapist

Amy Williams

Occupational Therapy student

From dental nurse to theatre life

Sarah Powell

Operating Department Practice student

A nurse gently holds a patient's hand while they rest in bed, offering comfort and support during recovery.

My own journey to helping others

Sara Head

Occupational Therapy student

Clinical Simulation Centre

Students learn beyond the classroom in simulated environments before undertaking supervised placements. Whatever a student’s chosen area of study, they will be exposed to a range of equipment that maybe used in clinical practice so that they are competent in using it and interpreting certain data from such equipment that will inform their ability to delivery first-class patient care.

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Study in the heart of Pontypridd

Our Glyntaff campus is in the heart of the South Wales Valleys, with beautiful scenery and rolling landscape. There’s always something happening or new places to discover.

Pontypridd Campus, Glyntaff