Course Overview

Our MSc Social Care, Health and Wellbeing degree offers an excellent opportunity to gain an advanced understanding of the health and social care sector, as well as areas such as equality, diversity, and collaboration.

Our MSc Social Care, Health and Wellbeing degree will give you an advanced awareness and understanding of the health and social care sector and the challenges that it faces. Specialist modules will broaden your understanding of key areas such as equality and diversity, integration, and collaboration. You will also develop enhanced critical and evaluative awareness of the current and emerging issues within health and social care practice.

Once you have qualified, you will have gained specific academic knowledge and practical skills that can be applied in your existing or future career. Alongside this, we will help you build lifelong learning skills that you can reflect on, articulate, and translate into everyday life.

Course Modules

• Dissertation (HSC7006)
• Postgraduate Preparation for Research Design (HSC7004)
• Critical Reading and Writing Skills (HSC7002)
• Equality and Diversity for Human Services (HSC7003)
• Leadership and Innovation (HSC7005)
• Contemporary Issues, Policy, and Practice (HSC7001)
• Collaborative and Integration in Health and Social Care (HSC7007)
• Person-Centered Approaches and Service User Involvement in Health and Social Care (HSC7008)

Career and Progression

The MSc in Social Care, Health and Wellbeing is well recognised qualification that provides the opportunity to develop your knowledge for an existing role, improve your prospects, or make a career change. It can also be a first step towards an academic career.

This qualification can take you into many different fields – both in the UK and abroad – including multi-agency teams, health promotion projects, refugee and asylum services, hospitals, sheltered accommodation, hospices, day centres, and residential care units.

Graduates of this programme may also choose to progress to study at doctorate-level in health and social care, or a related field.

Key Information