Health and Wellbeing Practice BA (Hons)

This module aims to develop your understanding of the people, organisations, and cultures within organisations across sectors. The module will develop an appreciation of the factors that govern people development, organisational behaviours and organisational development. You will nurture an understanding and appreciation of individual differences at workplace, how these differences affect group dynamics and how organisational factors affect individual behaviour. At its core, the module aims to equip you with the skills and knowledge to positively impact individual, team and organisational performance in a variety of dynamic organisational contexts.

Compulsory

The idea of ‘acceptable behavioural and professional conduct’ incorporates the expectations of a number of groups affected by the activities of professionals. The framework of professional behaviour considered acceptable at a point in time is an equilibrium among these groups' expectations. This module argues that shifts in the expectations of any of these groups will disturb this equilibrium. Using the tools of coaching and mentoring to support this process of disequilibrium and change leads to altered views of professional behaviour.

This module will enable you to assess your current skills and competencies with reference to your current or future role and link this to organisational objectives. Using research by Parsloe, Bluckert and Gallwey who address the behavioural aspect of coaching, you will consider how to use coaching and mentoring to develop people or improve their own performance.   

In terms of human resource development, you will relate this to the employee life cycle from induction, managing performance, learning new skills or tasks, promotion and development, career change, talent management and redundancy support. You will evaluate the impact coaching and mentoring can have on assisting people through personal and organisational change. 

Compulsory

This module has two distinct aims. The first is designed to enable you to appraise the quality and credibility of health research and equip yourself with skills and experience in evaluating and applying quantitative and qualitative methods for investigating health problems worldwide. Secondly, with a specific focus on the Sustainable Development Goals, the module aims to explore the characteristics of contemporary globalisation, consider the implications and consequences for different groups, and reflect on the tension between the global and the local (or the relationship between global social systems and localised everyday life). The module focuses on debates around the globalisation of economic activity, culture and identity and implications for political participation and citizenship.

Compulsory

This module provides you with your first professional placement-based learning experience over the course of six weeks^2,5. It enables you to further understand the role of a mentor/engagement coach and their contribution to the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team within an organisation in the field of health, education and wellbeing. The period of supervised professional placement provides you with the opportunity to apply and further develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of mental health, wellbeing, policy, legislation and professional behaviour and conduct - building on their theoretical and preparatory studies in modules studied as part of level 4. The learning process will be supported by a briefing, debriefing and individual tutorial sessions. In essence, this placement opportunity will allow you to reflect upon your own role in promoting the health and wellbeing of service users/colleagues.

Compulsory

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved placement undertaken during your programme. A placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes

Optional

This module² provides you with an opportunity to reflect upon and gain experience for an approved international study/work placement undertaken during your programme. A work/study placement should usually be at least 26 weeks or equivalent; however, each placement will be considered on its own merits, having regard to the ability to achieve the learning outcomes.

Optional

In this module, you will evaluate your self-awareness, reflective practice, techniques and models used in the field. You will also evaluate the range of theoretical perspectives which have been put forward to explain the mentoring phenomenon, and formulate a model of mentoring which draws upon both theoretical literature and findings from empirical literature in an attempt to 'close the divide' between theory and practice in mentoring.

Compulsory

This module aims to develop transdisciplinary thinking on sustainable leadership whilst focusing on contemporary challenges facing the individual, group, workplace, organisation and society. Health and wellbeing are global issues with an increasing ageing population, multi-morbidity, disability, mental health issues, depleting resources and widescale health and wealth inequality across cultures and countries. This module equips you to develop skills, knowledge and techniques pertaining to leadership and management practices that are innovative, inclusive and sustainable. The module will offer you insights from empirical evidence of health-promoting leadership and how it can be applied to each of the systems stated above. You will gain an understanding of theoretical concepts and practical applications in the form of concrete tools to be applied to various work contexts.

Compulsory

This is an independent piece of research in which you will aim to demonstrate the ability to search and evaluate relevant academic literature and data, to apply the necessary and appropriate research skills for the production of a scholarly empirical or conceptual piece of work. You are expected to work independently, with the support and advice of an allocated supervisor, in the research for a significant programme of learning and research.

Compulsory

This module provides you with an opportunity to develop and build on professional skills via a placement-based learning experience over the course of six weeks. This module will allow you to link theory with practice. It will further your understanding of the role of a mentor/ engagement coach within an organisation in the field of health, education and wellbeing.

The period of supervised professional placement will permit you to apply knowledge, skills and understanding of mental health, wellbeing, policy, legislation and professional behaviour and conduct - building on their theoretical and preparatory studies in modules studied as part of level 4 and 5. Briefing, debriefing, support sessions and individual tutorial sessions will support the learning over the six weeks. In essence, this placement opportunity will allow you to reflect upon your own role in promoting the health and wellbeing of service users/ colleagues, in the choice of their specialisation.

Compulsory