Foundation Degree in Healthcare for Assistant Practitioners(no longer recruiting)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a familiarity with the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are associated with the theory and practice of work as an assistant healthcare practitioner with particular reference to
- the nature and context of professional working in health and social care settings;
- biological, psychological, sociological and policy knowledge;
- delivery to appropriate standards of delegated, protocol-based elements of health and social care;
- identify ethical issues in their professional practice and be able to work these through where they present questions of conflicting priorities and moral imperatives;
- show awareness of the global context of their healthcare practice and recognise the nature and impact of the cultural settings of their work;
- use basic generic and subject specific intellectual qualities i.e.
- be able to communicate the results of their work;
- present a structured and coherent simple argument;
- be able to interpret and evaluate the underlying concepts and principles of the discipline;
- evaluate qualitative and/or quantitative data;
- demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline;
- appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;
- demonstrate an awareness of professional and disciplinary boundaries;
- demonstrate mathematical ability to GCSE level C/4

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment in assistant practitioner roles in health or social care;
- skills necessary for the exercising of professional responsibility as an assistant healthcare practitioner

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to assistant practitioner roles;
- use of a range of formats for assessment that develop skills of effective communication for both academic and professional settings;
- demonstrating abilities, skills and competencies to appropriate clinical standards;