Health and Social Care (Honours) 

Overview

Professionals at all levels need to be proactive and flexible to succeed, and through your studies you’ll gain the skills needed for effective practice in a diverse, multidisciplinary environment. You’ll learn how ethical, legal, social, economic and political factors influence the provision and development of services. You will also develop the critical and analytical skills that underpin evidence-based practice.

Key features of the Health and Social Care (Honours) course at The Open University UK

• Applies new ideas to real life issues and situations that affect us all

• Helps you to develop as an independent and reflective learner

• Explores the context and processes of change 

Skills for career development

The BA (Honours) Health and Social Care (R26) emphasises crossing professional boundaries and the service user’s perspective, and it closely follows care sector priorities. You’ll acquire a strong set of highly valued transferable skills, including skills in written communication; finding, evaluating and presenting research and other sources of information; problem-solving; leadership and management skills; and time management. You’ll learn to work independently and as part of a team, and gain a good understanding of the role of IT in care settings.

Career relevance

This degree is applicable to a wide range of health and social care careers in the statutory, voluntary or private sectors. Some of our students include:care managers

• healthcare assistants and healthcare support workers

• health educators

• health scientists

• paramedics

• practice managers

• social workers and social work assistants

• specialist practitioners

• youth workers and youth justice workers