Integrated Health and Social Care

The health and social care field is always changing. Our DipHE programme is designed to keep you up to date with these changes and prepare you for a range of job opportunities. Whether you want to work with adults, children, or young people, this course will help you gain the skills and knowledge needed for success.

The DipHE in Integrated Health and Social Care aims to build a skilled workforce that can meet national, digital and social care goals. This course will give you a strong foundation in health and social care, blending both theory and practice to help you think critically and solve problems.

You will exercise investigative, reflective analytical and reasoning powers in context and be provided with the knowledge and skills to extend your study and training post-graduation.

Completing this course can lead to various job opportunities, such as a Care Support Worker, Health Advisor, Community Support Officer or Youth Worker, to name a few. This diploma also serves as a step towards further education, like progressing to a BSc degree in Integrated Health and Social Care. This can deepen your knowledge and improve your career prospects.

In the first year, you will explore the foundations of health and social care, focusing on key concepts, policy, and the skills needed for effective practice. You’ll study counselling, communication, and therapeutic relationship, psychology in health and social care and management organisational behaviour and digital, helping you to gain a solid base for your future studies.

Counselling, Communication, and the Therapeutic Relationship (20 credits)
Psychology in Health and Social Care (20 credits)
Learning in the Digital Era (20 credits)
Contemporary Challenges: Making a Difference (20 credits)
Introduction to Public Health and Wellbeing (20 credits)
Management, Organisational Behaviour and Digital Change (20 credits)

The second year builds on your knowledge with advanced topics in health promotion, public health, and social care sector practices. You’ll develop analytical skills through research methods and evidence-based practice and learn about physiology as well as protecting and supporting families in health and social care.

Changemakers: Building your Personal Brand for Sustainable Employment (20 credits)
Protecting and Supporting Families in Health and Care (20 credits)
Changemakers: Creativity and Value Creation (20 credits)
Introduction to Physiology (20 credits)
Principles of Health and Social Care Practice (20 credits)
Introduction to independent Research Skills (20 Credits)

Assessments include: essays, exams, reports, presentations, reflective accounts, debates, policy critiques and professional portfolios. You will be asked to utilise information technology communication and organisational skills for your assignments.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS