Integrated Health and Social Care

Take a holistic and contemporary approach to meeting individuals’ health, care and support needs.

Explore how integration between health services, social services and other care providers can be promoted to improve both care experiences and outcomes for individuals.

You’ll develop the knowledge and skills to be an effective, person-centred practitioner in a range of professional roles within health and social care.

You’ll learn how take a global and cross-cultural perspective of care, and recognise and respond to inequalities in a diversity of settings and communities.

Course Modules

Year 1

• The Body in Health and Disease

• Integration and Multidisciplinary Working

• Fundamentals of Safeguarding Practice

• Inequality and Disadvantage in Health and Social Care

• Professional Practice 1

• Into ARU

Year 2

• Understanding Learning Disabilities and Physical Disabilities

• Ruskin Module (15 credits)

• Holistic Approaches to Mental Health

• Protection of Children and Young People

• Integrated Care for People with Long-Term Health Conditions

• Professional Practice 2

Year 3

• Death Dying and End of Life Care

• Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Health and Social Care

• Professional Practice 3

• Undergraduate Major Project *

• Undergraduate Placement Project *

*optional