Health & Social Care

Why choose us?

We have forged strong links with local and national health and social care providers, including University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, as well as community organisations and private practices. We use these relationships to inform our curriculum as well as giving students the chance to undertake exciting, relevant work placements.

To further enhance your learning, we’ve invested in our purpose-built Bournemouth Gateway Building to house many of our courses.

Our practice simulation suites mirror both clinical and community workplace settings and provide a safe environment for you to practise your essential skills before heading out on placement. Whether it’s one of our acute or patient nursing wards, an operating theatre, physiotherapy clinic, exercise science laboratory, nutrition laboratory, maternity suite or our ambulance simulation suite, all of our clinical skills areas provide state-of-the-art facilities for you to practise the skills required to become a confident practitioner.

We’ve also created community settings, such as household kitchens, lounges and dining rooms, that our students use to hone their skills. This could involve occupational therapy or social work students recreating a home visit, or paramedic students reconstructing an emergency call out to someone’s home. Practising in these environments means that you will have the relevant skills when you are on your placement, and makes it easier for you to place the theory you will also be studying into context.

Our Health & Social Care courses are mainly delivered at our Lansdowne Campus, near Bournemouth town centre, or on one of our external campuses in Yeovil or Portsmouth.

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