Health and Social Care Management – BA (Honours)/DipHE

The course you study depends on your previous academic qualifications. We teach both awards together but they have different learning outcomes and assessment criteria.

The Dip HE and the BA (Honours) courses are for junior and middle managers working in clinical and non-clinical roles in health and social care. Managerial responsibilities include • people • resources • systems • service development.

Whether you study the degree or the diploma depends on your previous academic qualifications.

This course enables you to• gain greater understanding and knowledge about the constraints, policies and procedures that affect management in your organisation
• improve your ability to manage and develop people in your organisation to improve service provision
• better understand the resource and quality issues surrounding high quality service provision
• increase your skills in using different kinds of information to evaluate and review service development

You complete a work-based project or dissertation analysing a real issue in your workplace. It draws together the learning gained from the course and often leads to a significant change or development.

We also use action learning sets to ensure your learning is relevant to your workplace. This is where small groups focus on real issues and problems faced by group members and collectively find solutions.

The work-based nature of the course means that your learning directly applies to your current role, and your planned career progression. Your employer will see benefits and real changes for your organisation and for service users as you develop.

Other key benefits include
• learning objectives linked to current service agendas, such as modernisation and service improvement
• working with other professionals from various health and social care organisations to share best practice
• combining theory with practice to help manage the day-to-day challenges you face
• mentor support
• study skills support

Our Centre for Leadership in Health and Social Care runs this course.

Study individual modules
You can study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development website for more information.