Post-experience and Continuing Professional Development Health and Social Care courses
UCS is the key provider of professional healthcare courses across Suffolk and Great Yarmouth. UCS works closely with employers, the NHS locally and regionally, local government and other not-for-profit organisations, key stakeholders and industrial partners, and Suffolk County Welfare Group. It places an emphasis on the employability skills of graduating students.
The School of Health, Science and Social Care and the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Interprofessional Studies at UCS work in partnership to offer students a diverse range of professional development modules designed to enhance the quality of care they provide. The modules provide qualified staff with the diversity of skills and knowledge required to develop as innovative practitioners and the opportunity to reflect on new ways of working.
Students taking courses within the health-focused schools have access to the state-of-the-art Clinical Skills Lab at the Ipswich Campus. The lab replicates a clinical environment, and provides a perfect area for teaching and simulation of clinical skills across professional boundaries. It can simulate an acute ward, and offers students access to the latest equipment and facilities as found in clinical practice today.
Students develop new skills in leadership and supervision, business acumen in health and social care delivery, new ways of working within health and social care, and become more responsive to integrated services and their approach to health, education and social care delivery.
Post-experience Masters degrees, Honours degrees, and Diplomas in Higher Education available part-time at UCS
The aim of these courses is to develop a broader understanding of the changing roles of health and social care professionals and their relationship within the context of radical changes within service delivery. The structures offer students the opportunity to critically discuss many of the recent developments in both theoretical and empirical approaches to innovative service delivery. Students are also able to pursue specialist interests by choosing optional modules. The courses are designed to meet the needs of health and social care professionals, from a wide range of professional roles, who wish to embark on an educational course which will prepare them to face the challenges and demands of managing and working in changing organisations.
The following courses have been developed for those individuals already working within a professional health and social care role, undergraduate health courses can be found here|.