The BSc (Hons) Clinical Practice programme is designed to enhance existing skills and develop new competencies to enable you to assume significant responsibility within an organisation. You will critically evaluate and integrate key concepts, values and ethics relevant to your work situation and your professional field, informed by knowledge at the forefront of your discipline. In addition, the programme prepares you to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the quality of care delivered as an on-going and cumulative process, and take responsibility for setting or monitoring and evaluating standards for the provision of care within an area of practice. The programme enhances the skills required to exercise initiative and personal responsibility, and to make decisions in unpredictable contexts. It also focuses on working effectively in a team and enabling services users, family members, support workers and interprofessional teams to participate in plans and decisions that affect them.

The minimum entry requirements for the programme are as follows: A registered qualification with a UK professional regulatory organisation. Evidence of previous study at level 4. Students whose qualifications do not meet the entry requirements above but who have significant experience and other evidence of ability to study at this level. Students for whom English is not a first language must have an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent with no sub-scores below 5.5. Have access to a computer that has a broadband connection and that can browse the internet and has word processing on it Have computing skills commensurate with the demands of programme* Have an identified mentor in clinical practice. Applications are welcome from students with non-standard qualifications or mature students (those over 21 years of age on entry) with significant relevant experience.