Narrator: Nursing, Health and Wellbeing is all about patient care and you can study it all here at UCS. Our courses bring learning to life and we have got brilliant links with local health care professionals and hospitals, giving you some great hands on practical experience. But how can UCS help you progress into your career in Nursing, Health and Wellbeing?
Nursing Lecturer: I think one of the challenges that you face when you work in the NHS is that there is a lot of demands on your time; it’s a very intense profession to join, whether you work as a physiotherapist, whether you work as a health care assistant or whether you work as a nurse or even as a medic. I think what we try and do here at UCS is really broaden peoples horizons, get them to open their mind and think creatively and get them to be better people managers so actually when they go into practice they are more equipped, they’re better equipped, to be able to do the job to a higher standard.
I think one of our rules ,and I’m sure it’s the same for every course we offer, is also about widening participation so that we aren’t just targeting 18 year olds who are leaving sixth form with so many A-levels but we are looking at some of the more mature students. Particularly in health, looking at people who are maybe working in a relatively junior capacity within health and actually recognising that they may not have the A-levels but they’ve got the experience and that we should target them. So with our Foundation degrees in health we target people who work as health acre assistants and equip them with the skills they need to be able to do their jobs better in the future. Within the health courses we offer, their highly practiced based, so we work in close partnership with local NHS trusts, Ipswich Hospital, James Paget Hospital, West Suffolk Hospital and the local PCT’s. It’s making connections within those that for students would mean that they have added career prospects in the long term.
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