This course can only be taken as part of a programme
If you want to top-up your Diploma or Advanced Diploma to a full degree this is the course for you. The Professional Practice course is designed for any practitioner and all of our units are essentially work-based and will enable you to explore issues which are relevant to your professional speciality.
Our framework is ideal for busy health and social care professionals as it will allow you to study manageable ‘bite-sized’ units, at your convenience. You can gain new knowledge, refresh skills and ultimately enhance the client/patient care you are able to offer.
We've designed this course to enable busy health and social care practitioners to be able to study individual units, allowing you to steadily work towards a qualification, flexibly and at your own pace.
The structure of how to complete the BSc (hons) Professional Practice can been seen in the programme diagram, but essentially you need to study 100 level 6 credits of learning of your choice from the CPD Framework and also complete the mandatory unit of Locating and Evaluating Evidence for Professional Practice.
Please note that the timeframes for completing this course can vary depending on when you started your first CPD unit and your previous qualifications. If you are interested in this programme, please contact the HSS-CPD Admissions Team in the first instance so they can advise you of the timeframe.
All university undergraduate degrees are made up of 3 levels:
If you wish to achieve a BSc (Hons) Professional Practice you must provide evidence of Level 4 and Level 5 achievements. If you do not hold a Diploma or Foundation Degree or equivalent this can be achieved by:
Course review:
In order to take advantage of new approaches to learning and teaching, as well as developments in practice to benefit our students we regularly review all of our courses. This course is currently going through this process and we will update this page to give you full information about what we will be offering once the review process has concluded. These changes will come into effect for all new students from September 2025. Applicants will be notified by our admissions team of any changes.