Assistant Practitioner (Health) Foundation Degree in Science - FdSc

This work-based Foundation degree builds on your existing practice experience, setting you off on a journey of active independent learning with appropriate support from academic and clinical staff. It develops your skills and equips you to become a reflective and compassionate healthcare practitioner, able to promote, provide and maintain safe, effective care within a multidisciplinary context and in multicultural settings.

Facilities and specialist equipment

* Fully immersive simulation suites with environments to prepare students for different scenarios in a supportive environment.

* High-quality teaching spaces; informal learning spaces; and lecture theatres.

Career-powered links

The course has been designed and delivered in partnership with local health and social-care employers and service users, who have shaped the curriculum to be practice-led and based on the NHS constitution.

Your student experience

Develop essential skills to offer support, care and advice when acting as the first point of contact for your clients, their carers and family.

Cover theory and practice in both real and simulated environments, ensuring you qualify with the competence and confidence needed to be a professional in the field.

During work-based learning, you are supported by practice mentors and members of the course teaching team, who visit you and work closely with your mentor.

Complete your course by identifying a service development area for focus and planning a proposal that tackles it.

On successful completion of the course, you can progress to a top-up course in a related subject, leading to a full degree and registration with the regulatory body for your chosen profession.