Overview

The Learning Disability Nursing (Hons) graduates from University of Wolverhampton have recently secured employment as community nurses, working in forensic settings and within nursing homes to name a few. Services for people who have a learning disability are changing and its exciting to be part of this change.

Quick Facts:

It is our aim to provide you with the opportunities to enable you to build your own career pathway as a Learning Disability Nurse.
If life and life chances, and to enable the person with a learning disability to achieve their aspirations to engage in citizenship in their local communities.

What happens on the course?

The Learning Disability Nursing course provides you with the necessary exposure to placements within the NHS, private and voluntary sector. It is our aim to provide you with the necessary tools to enable you to learn to work effectively within an interprofessional team and with service users plus their carer’s.
Over your 3 years with us you will spend 50% of your time with us in the university and 50% of your course time out in practice settings. Our integrated course design supports to develop you to be the best learning disability nurse you can be. Our modules involve people who have a learning disability within the teaching team via our university SUCCESS group.
On successful completion of the course you will enter the Nursing and Midwifery Council register as a Learning Disability Nurse with an Hons degree.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Challenges to health and wellbeing

Contemporary Evidence Based Practice in Learning Disabilities Nursing

Pre-registration Nursing (BNurs) Mandatory Training - Level 5

Skills for Safe and Effective Practice

Working in Partnership to Prioritise Care

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-21 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-30 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Walsall, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Nursing Health Sciences View 471 other Bachelors in Health Sciences in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

112 UCAS points
A Levels - grades BBC
T Levels - Equivalent to 112 UCAS points or higher in Health or Healthcare Science
BTEC L3 Extended Diploma or OCR Cambridge L3 Technical Extended Diploma - grades DMM
CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma at a B grade
Access to HE Diploma (60 credits) of which a minimum of 45 must be at Level 3 (112 UCAS point equivalence, minimum 15 credits at distinction)
Undergraduate or Postgraduate degrees
Foundation degrees /HND/ HNC

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Tuition Fees

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15995 GBP / year

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9535 GBP / year

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