Physiotherapy

Physiotherapists provide vital treatments and interventions to improve mobility, reduce pain, and promote wellbeing – from helping someone recover from an injury, to managing a respiratory or neurological condition. This degree provides the skills and experience needed to qualify as a physiotherapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
You will learn the theoretical and practical skills needed to diagnose and manage musculoskeletal, respiratory, and neurological conditions. Our curriculum spans diverse practice areas, from acute hospital settings to patient care in the home, equipping you for the varied demands of your future career.
This course blends classroom-based theory, practical skills classes, and simulated learning to enhance your confidence in comfortable learning environments before progressing to real-life cases.
You will also complete at least 1,000 hours of work-based practice placements, taking advantage of our excellent employer links. These placements will allow you to experience the full spectrum of physiotherapy specialisms, preparing you for the many directions your career can take.
The NHS Learning Support Fund, offering at least £5,000 per year, is available to eligible students. For more information and details of eligibility, visit www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/lsf.

Module Examples

- Core Physiotherapy Assessment and Management Skills \

• Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Movement \
• Pathophysiology for Contemporary Physiotherapy \
• Musculoskeletal Pathology and Treatment \
• Neurological Pathology and Treatment \
• Cardiovascular Pathology and Treatment \
• Management of Complex Conditions \
• Leadership and the Global Practitioner\
• Contemporary Issues and Advancing Physiotherapy

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Your assessments will provide a creative and balanced strategy across the programme and provide a range of engaging and challenging opportunities. Individual assessments are designed to test learning outcomes. We aim to provide a varied approach to assessment including:

• Practical skills assessments
• Presentations
• Posters
• Academic writing
• Critical reflection
• Portfolio
• Practice placement assessments
  Practice placements are assessed using continuous assessment via the Common Assessment Tool (CAT). This is an assessment document, based on the HCPC standards of practice, and is shared between all the higher education Physiotherapy education providers in the North West of England. This ensures a high level of standardisation across the region.

Summative assessments
Summative assessments are authentic and aligned to module learning outcomes and programme aims. Summative assessment encourages progressive development through feedback and reflection.

Summative assessments will generally occur at the end of each semester. However, the timetable has been created to ensure that there is a spread of assessments across the year, providing a realistic and manageable timetable. To ensure assessment is equitable for everyone, we have a departmental policy ‘Ensuring Assessment is Fair’, which ensures that you can see how your marks are awarded and how marks from the cohort are moderated both internally and by the external examiner.

Formative assessments
Formative assessments are a key feature of your academic journey. It is work which helps to inform or become part of your final ‘summative’ assessment, and the nature of it varies across modules. Formative work may include in‐class or on‐line activities such as presenting draft assignments. Peer and self‐assessment are also used to give you rapid feedback on formative tasks.

Everything that you undertake, and the products of that learning, are embedded through active participation and formative opportunities for dialogue and feedback. The formative work is developmental and prepares you for summative assessment work.