FdSc - Assistant Practitioner (Health)

Year one

In year one you will learn what evidence-based practice is and how it relates to your field of practice. You will start to understand the applied biological and anatomical areas needed to ensure you can relate them to your practice. You will understand what the professional codes of practice are for your own areas and how they relate to the policy and procedures for your organisation. Alongside codes of conduct you will also study legal and ethical implications of practice. You will explore patient and service user journeys in each of your clinical areas and the experience we should all aim to provide in healthcare.

• Introduction to Professional Practice
  To explore and apply key legal, professional and ethical concepts to complex decision making in health and social care practice.
• Service User Journey 1
  To develop a learner’s understanding of the fundamental relationship between the delivery of care related to their scope of practice and the service users’ journey through their area of work.
• Applied Biological Sciences 1
  To introduce the Learner to a range of subject areas, relevant to their profession, that underpin subsequent teaching of anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Whilst this may be taught in some generic ways there will also be pathway specific work associated with each pathway.
• Evidence Based & Reflective Practice
  This module aims to develop learners’ knowledge and understanding of the skills required to succeed in academic study and assessment, particularly research skills, analytical, reflective, and critical skills.

Year two

In year two you build on the knowledge that you gained in year one by exploring areas such as leadership, management and quality. The service user and patient journey will become more detailed as will the applied biological sciences and your explorations of your professional duties and codes of conduct. You will consider the application of these areas of knowledge to clinical practice and in particular the practice in your own organisation. In-depth consideration of the impact of your practice on the multi-disciplinary team in which you work will be an essential component for completion alongside the evidence base for your own field of practice.

• Applied Biological Sciences 2
  This module will enable the learner to contextualise their own scope of practice with the wider service user, their families and carers journey. They will be able to do so using themes including health and wellbeing, local and national policy, health promotion and MDT working.
  
• Leadership Management and Quality
  To develop the leadership skills to work as part of a team and deliver high quality, safe and effective care.
• Professional Studies
  To provide you with the clinical skills and experience to enable safe and effective practice within a defined area of practice to demonstrate the outcomes of the Assistant Practitioner (Health) programme. This will be used to complement and consolidate learning from the previous modules.

Health and Social Pathway

• Pathway Specific 1 - Health and Social Care (Year One)
  To enable students to gain knowledge and understanding of the fundamental principles that inform Nursing Practice.
• Pathway Specific 2 - Health and Social Care (Year One)
  To explore perspectives of biological, psychological, social, cultural, spiritual and behavioural determinants of health and promote person centred wellbeing across the lifespan.
• Pathway Specific 3 - Health and Social Care (Year Two)
  To enable students to understand and apply the principles of pharmacology and medicine therapeutics in the management of care. To ensure that they communicate aspects of pharmacology to service users, their families and carers in lay terms.

Radiography Pathway

• Imaging Technology 1 (Year One)
  This module aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the technology used within medical imaging and therapy. This will underpin the safe and effective use of these technologies within the practice environment.
• Science & Radiation Protection (Year One)
  This module aims to deliver a range of subjects that underpin the practice and science applied to medical imaging.
• Medical Imaging Technologies 2 (Year Two)
  This module builds on the learning outcomes of FDAP4019 and aims to deliver a range of subjects that underpin the practice and science applied to medical imaging technologies.

Midwifery Pathway

Please note that this pathway will be a direct route to the BSc and Apprenticeship Midwifery course.

• Public Health in Midwifery Practice Midwifery (Year One)
  To understand the principles of public health, health promotion and protection for all women, birthing people, newborns and families.
• Wellbeing and Mental Health in Maternity (Year One)
  To understand the principles of wellbeing in relation to supporting your own mental health and those you care for.
• Childbirth Emergencies (Year Two)
  To facilitate the acquisition of the skills and knowledge required to support midwives and obstetricians to manage childbirth emergencies. In addition, to demonstrate situational awareness, advanced communication skills and knowledge of human factors.

Occupational Therapy Pathway

• Occupational Therapy Process and Paradigms (Year One)
  The aim of this module is to introduce you to Occupational Therapy within health and care. The focus will be on developing your knowledge and understanding of the Occupational therapy core skills and the Occupational Therapy process to deliver best practice. You will be able to develop knowledge an
• Exploring and Applying Occupational Science (Year One)
  The aim of this module is for you develop your understanding of Occupational Science and the relevance of Occupational Science to Occupational Therapy. You will be able to explore the art and science of occupation and its relevance to understanding humans as Occupational beings and link this to occu
• Developing Occupational Therapy Theory to Practice (Year Two)
  The aim of this module is to enable you to design and evaluate an Occupational Therapy intervention. The intervention will be designed using theoretical knowledge of life sciences and human occupation and applied to local, national and global practice contexts of Occupational Therapy.

Physiotherapy Pathway

• Physiotherapy Examination, Assessment and Treatment (Year One)
  The aim of this module is to introduce you to the core physiotherapy skills of examination, assessment, treatment and management. You will develop your understanding of physiotherapy examination and assessment processes and be able to apply these to clinical contexts.
• Applied Human Science (Year One)
  The aim of this module is to develop your understanding of the structure and function of the human Neuro-musculoskeletal (NMSK) system and your understanding of the interrelationship between structure and function of the NMSK system in health and ill-health.
• Promoting Health, Wellbeing and Exercise Physio (Year Two)
  The aim of this module is to introduce you to the use of physical activity and therapeutic exercise as a means of health promotion. It will challenge you to consider the biopsychosocial factors that can influence health and wellbeing, and the role health care professionals can play in the prevention