Health and social care

Health and Social Care

School of Health and Social Care

Throughout your degree within the Health and Social Care School, your learning has been tailored towards a particular career. Because of this these pages will offer a range of information that will help you to have a better understanding of your skills.

What skills have I gained?

Over the course of your Health and Social Care degree you will have developed a range of skills, both relating to your course specifically, and more general skills that you could apply to many different types of jobs. You will have developed the ability to:

Research, analyse and evaluate health issues effectively.
Use health information and data efficiently.
Understand health concerns on a personal, national and international level.
Work in both a multidisciplinary team and as an individual on a wide variety of tasks.
Work with people of all ages, cultures, and ethnic origins in a range of settings.
Manage your time effectively.

For more information on your skills with regards to employability, visit the Higher Education Academy’s pages on Health Studies, which provides a guide to the types of skills you will gain over you degree.

Nursing

Within the field of Nursing at Brookes there are four specific areas that you can specialise in – Adult Nursing, Children’s Nursing, Learning Disability and Mental Health, as well as Midwifery. Despite the differences in these areas, the types of jobs available to these students are often grouped together. See the Options with Nursing page on Graduate Prospects for information about the possibilities with a Nursing degree or the Occupational Profiles to explore each job title.