BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care

You’ll examine health and social care from national and global perspectives considering cultural values and beliefs, enabling you to deliver compassionate, high quality and inclusive care and services for individuals, families and communities.

Your lecturers will use their up-to-date practitioner and research experience to help you develop a high level of theoretical knowledge and practical know how.

Subject specific skills and the importance of cultural competence, social justice, adherence to relevant legislation and professional standards will be evident throughout all levels of your study.

Professional work placements, which form an integral part of your degree, will give you the chance to gain experience in multiple health and social care settings and there are opportunities to study, work or volunteer overseas during your course.

The applied nature of this degree means you’ll graduate with the knowledge, skills and experience needed for professional practice and that employers in this growing sector are looking for.

Social prescribing is a key component of the Universal Personalised Care Model and the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) which aims to enable people to achieve better health and wellbeing. Opportunities for a career as a social prescribing link worker within multi-disciplinary teams in primary care are therefore set to increase, with the subsequent demand for suitably skilled people to fill these exciting new roles.

Leeds Trinity University is approved to run the Skills and Education Group Awards Certa Level 3 Certificate in Social Prescribing, a nationally recognised qualification which prepares learners for a role in social prescribing.

The necessary mandatory and optional units of study for the Certificate in Social Prescribing are embedded within and mapped against the modules you’ll study during your Health and Social Care degree. This means you have the option to work towards this additional qualification as part of your studies with support and guidance from your University lecturers. In order to be awarded the Level 3 Certificate in Social Prescribing qualification, you will need to submit a portfolio of your work that successfully meets the assessment criteria set by Skills and Education Group Awards.