Child Centred Interprofessional Practice BA(Hons) top-up

Why choose this course?

This work-based course gives students meaningful insights into the roles and responsibilities of their own and allied professions. It strikes a careful balance between the theoretical and practical elements that are shaping the emerging interprofessional children and young people's workforce. In this way it helps students meet the challenges they face on a daily basis and those they will meet in the future. 

What will you study?

You will reflect upon and evaluate your professional practice and work closely with colleagues in other professions as they do the same. This will create a pool of knowledge and understanding necessary for developing interprofessional practice and strategies for optimising the welfare, safeguarding and health of babies, children and young people. It will enable you to further your studies and focus on children from birth to 19 years. 

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1 (foundation degree)

• Foundation degree

Year 2 (foundation degree)

• Foundation degree continued

Year 3 (BA top-up year)

• Practitioners' roles in relation to each other and effective cross agency referral
• Strategies for managing transitions
• Strategies for responding to cultural diversity
• Strategies for leading and managing change
• Interprofessional career profiling
• Critical analysis of current research
• Preparation for research
• Extended independent study