Nursing (Learning Disability) and Social Work

This module introduces you to the biopsychosocial, cognitive, political, economic, and medical factors which influence the health and wellbeing of individuals, diverse populations and communities. You’ll work with peers from other professions to consider how collaborative practice impacts on health and wellbeing outcomes, and helps you thrive in your own professional practice.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Models of care, support and empowerment 

• Social capital and cultural humility  

• Social accountability and determinants of health  

• Safeguarding practice  

• Public health agendas, inquiries and evidence-based reports  

• Building effective, trusting relationships   

• Community profiles and place-based care systems  

• Person-centred service delivery  

• Behaviour change and microaggressions 

• Diversity and inclusion 

• The effects of planetary health on wellbeing 

This module develops your ability to define nursing and social work roles in society, challenging perceptions of learning disability practice. You’ll explore the distinctive values, theory and skills underpinning your profession and the legal context of health and social care practice and policy – including creation and enforcement of statute law, and engaging with core processes within a framework of rights, duties, responsibilities and powers.  

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Values and ethical base of nursing and social work 

• Critical writing, reflective practice and digital capabilities 

• Person-centred practice and service user perspectives 

• Therapeutic relationships, advocacy and empowerment 

• Anti-oppression and developing inclusive practice  

• Legislation, policy, welfare rights and benefits  

• Mobility, safety, human factors and dignity 

• Nutrition and hydration 

• Vital signs and symptoms 

• Prevention and care

This module consolidates your progression to graduate-level study and professional practice, reflecting on your role as a professional who delivers safe and effective person-centred care. You’ll be supported to identify influencing factors on your professional practice – developing strategies which support you to thrive personally, professionally and academically. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Reflective practice and writing skills 

• Personal and professional development and identity 

• Emotional intelligence 

• Self-perception, privilege and introduction intersectionality and allyship  

• Self-management, feedback and leadership 

• Ethics in professional practice 

• Communication methods and techniques 

• Contemporary policy for professional practice 

• Teamwork and collaborating across professional boundaries 

• Personal behaviour and self-assessment techniques 

• The impact of behaviours, values, research and anti-oppressive and inclusive practice  

This module spans year one of the undergraduate, pre-registration programme for Learning Disabilities  nursing and social work – encompassing core and field-specific learning with professional values. You’ll have learning opportunities to achieve of part one of the programme through completion of the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD) – Also preparing  you for your first social work placement in line with the PCF SWE (2019).  

You’ll apply learning and skills such as: 

• Preparing for placement 

• Prevention and management of violence and aggression 

• Moving and handling 

• Basic life support  

• Five social work skills days  

•  Practice learning experiences  

This module enables you to understand the key bio, psycho, social principles that underpin person-centred care and healthcare practice across the life span. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Anatomy, physiology, microbiology and genomics  

• Psychological development across the lifespan   

• Sociology and public health  

• Adult positive ageing  

• Children’s attachment 

• Mental health assessment and treatment  

• Life course models  

• Models of disability: social vs medical   

• Ecological and systems approaches 

• Understanding human development  

This module applies and evaluates key biological, psychological and sociological perspectives that are underpinned by legislative frameworks and policy informing nursing and social work practice. You’ll be challenged by ethical dilemmas and collaborate with other students to explore and resolve them. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Bio, psycho, social theories of intervention  

• Relationship-based approaches and Co-production with service users/families/carers 

• Research-informed practice with children, adults and families 

• Strengths based and relational approaches 

• Mental capacity, care and support, and adult safeguarding 

• Personalisation in health and social care 

• Learning disability and healthy aging  

• Neurodiversity and Autism  

• Working with vulnerable groups 

• Permanency planning, adoption and fostering  

This module is your chance to apply your professional knowledge, skills and values in an integrated manner. You’ll work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines to assess, intervene and overcome the challenges of complex health and social care situations – supporting individuals, groups and communities.    

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Drivers for integrated and person-centred health and social care  

• Inter-professional teamworking across multiple service interfaces   

• Shared ethical decision-making, collaboration and co-production 

• Assessment, treatment planning, evaluation and risk management 

• The realities of living with long-term conditions and multi-morbidities  

• Mental capacity, best interest assessment, equality and reasonable adjustments  

• Resilience, communication, breaking bad news, difficult conversations   

• Interpersonal and systemic discrimination in health and social care 

• Inclusive language and terminology including challenging microaggressions  

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems

This module spans year two and supports your achievement of part two of the programme, through completion of the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD). You’ll further develop your knowledge, skills and practice in preparation for registration with the NMC and SWE to demonstrate capability against the PCF domains for practice by the end of the first social work placement.  

You’ll apply your learning and skills to:  

• Anti-oppressive practice  

• Ethics and values as applied to practice  

• Critical reflection   

• Supervised Nursing placement and an  80-day social work placement 

• Work with individuals, families and communities 

• Mandatory training 

• Prevention and management of violence and aggression  

• Basic life support  

• Three social work skills days  

This module introduces you to research and enquiry design and methods. You’ll be able to apply them to an area of investigation – considering factors that impact on literature appraisal – preparing you to undertake and manage an investigation as a professional practitioner. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• What makes a good question  

• Research design, types of evidence and suitability of methods 

• Co-production – patient and public involvement 

• Inclusive perspectives of research  

• Data collection methods, strengths and weaknesses 

• Analysis techniques 

• Usefulness/impact and implications for practice 

• Ethics and governance 

• Sample of existing appraisal tools 

• Searching and critically reviewing the literature  

This module spans year two and supports your achievement of part two of the programme, through completion of the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD). You’ll further develop your knowledge, skills and practice in preparation for registration with the NMC – able to demonstrate capability against the PCF domains for practice by the end of the first social work placement.  

You’ll apply your learning and skills to:  
 

• Anti-oppressive practice  

• Ethics and values as applied to practice  

• Critical reflection   

• Supervised 80-day social work placement 

• Work with individuals, families and communities 

• Mandatory training 

• Prevention and management of violence and aggression  

• Basic life support  

• Three social work skills days  

Module Aim:  

This module allows students to demonstrate they have met the requirements for registration with the PSRB - the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Social Work England(SWE).   

Indicative content:  
Completion of the requirements for this module will be achieved throughout the course, mainly in practice placements, of which there are 60 weeks over the three years. 

Requirements for completion are: 

1. Completion of a self-declaration of good health and good character on completion of the course. 

2. Achievement of a full and final set of clinical professional values 

3. Achievement of 2300 hours in practice placements. Included in these hours are the SWE requirements of 200 days of practice learning.  

4. Achievement of 2300 hours theory. 

This module enables you to progress confidently and competently into professional practice for nursing (learning disabilities) and social work. You’ll develop your skills as a future leader and collaborative change agent in health and social care practice. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Transitioning to practice: preceptorships and AYSE 

• Accountability vs responsibility  

• Leadership and teamwork across roles and boundaries 

• Risk assessment: self-harm, suicidal Ideation and inequalities  

• Managing merge service resources, prioritising care  

• Education standards, practice assessment and education 

• Responding to constructive feedback appropriately  

• Diversity and promoting health locally and globally  

• Improving the safety and quality of care  

• Continuous professional development  

This module develops your systematic understanding of leadership and education concepts in practice. You’ll critically reflect on these in the context of collaboration within health and social care practice – considering how you can effectively support people who use services, their carers and families, and communities who have complex health and care needs to thrive.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Differences between management, leadership and the role of the critical follower 

• Leadership theories, models and styles most relevant to health and social care  

• Self-awareness and seeing ourselves as leaders 

• Recognising our own personal impact, rank, power and privilege  

• Professional cultures, traditional hierarchies and becoming an agent of change  

• Leading psychologically safe, anti-racist and inclusive teams  

• Resilience, volatility and acknowledging the wellbeing needs of the workforce  

• Sustainable practice, quality improvement and leadership 

• Tackling inequalities in health and social care through advocacy and education 

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems 

This module enables you to apply your learning disability knowledge and skills to lead holistic care for people across the lifespan, in a variety of settings. You’ll engage with core theories, considering how you can collaborate and thrive as a leader to challenge and improve practice. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Bio psycho-social theories and methods of intervention 
• Critical reflection on ethics and values  
• Developing increased autonomy and professional authority  
• Professional judgement and decision-making 
• Clinical decision-making and diagnostics 
• Managing increased levels of uncertainty, complexity and risk 
• Conflict resolution and managing behaviour 
• Motivational theories 
• Person-centred approaches 
• The role of the nurse in prescribing 

This module spans year three and supports achievement of part three of the programme by completing the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD). You’ll further develop your knowledge, skills and practice in preparation for registration with the NMC and SWE – including skills of leading, co-ordinating care working towards and responding flexibly to a range of complex situations.  

You’ll apply your learning and skills to: 

• Supervised assessed practice of 100 days  

• Meeting NMC, SWE and PCF requirements  

• Demonstrating a range of communication skills  

• Working towards becoming an autonomous practitioner 

This module enables you to undertake a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning, demonstrating a critical understanding and applying appropriate research methods within a piece of work. This work will challenge and contribute to improvements in areas of practice through the dissemination of findings to professional communities. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as:  

• An individual independent project/dissertation 

• Creating and contributing to research and evaluation for practice 

• Application of approaches to research 

• Research, improvement and evaluation methodologies 

• Addressing inclusivity in your research process 

• Dissemination of project outcomes 

• Challenges in applying research outcomes to practice