Happening Now in Health Sciences and Social Work
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by admin in Health & Social Work
A brief flavour of what is happening within the dynamic School of Health Sciences and Social Work. An outline of current developments from Head of School Jeannette Bartholomew.
We started the academic year with over 800 students in the School on courses ranging from pre-degree to Professional Doctorate. We have added two new courses this year, FdSc Speech, Language and Communication Science and BSc (Hons) Acute Clinical Healthcare, which is a top-up degree for Diploma/Foundation Degree graduates. We have welcomed for the first time, full-time students to our FdSc Paramedic Science who will, with continued support from our partners South Central, Isle of Wight and South East Coast Ambulance Services bring a new paramedic workforce into the region in two years’ time.
We are in the planning stages of bringing the ExPERT Centre into the School in the spring and building on our shared expertise in simulated clinical skills learning. The high fidelity simulation resources in ExPERT will complement the School’s new X-Ray and VERT simulation suites and our much-used Clinical Skills Laboratory. These extensive resources enable us to develop students’ clinical skills in a safe, protected simulated environment before they develop those skills further working with real patients in clinical practice.
Social work students face an exciting future too. We look forward to hearing the outcomes of the Social Work Taskforce review shortly as the recommendations will impact on the training and education of social workers across the country.
We are working with our partner organisations, including the South Central Strategic Health Authority, to ensure that our courses meet the demands of the employers and so that we can contribute to the health and social care workforce by providing practitioners and associate practitioners in the numbers needed and who are fit for purpose.
I can only give you a brief flavour of what is happening within this dynamic School.
Jeannette Bartholomew
Head of School of Health Sciences and Social Work (SHSSW)
