BSc (Hons) Specialist Complex Needs Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment) (Top-up) 24 months Undergraduate Programme By Birmingham City University |TopUniversities

BSc (Hons) Specialist Complex Needs Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment) (Top-up)

Programme Duration

24 monthsProgramme duration

Main Subject Area

Medicine Related StudiesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Medicine Related Studies

Degree

BSc

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Our BSc (Hons) Specialist Complex Needs Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment) is a top-up course designed for qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialists who wish to take their expertise to the next level. It is the ideal progression from our FdSc Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (Adults). The course will help you to develop specialist techniques to enhance your current practice with adults who have a wide range of complex needs including deafblindness, dementia, mental health conditions and learning disability.

What's covered in this course?

The course is designed to equip you with the specialist capabilities required to support your individual role within a multi-disciplinary setting which will benefit a wide range of service users. Modules focusing on working with people who are Deafblind, Dementia and Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders will equip you to deliver specialist assessment and service provision for people with different needs.

You will establish competence in specialist assessment approaches, travel training techniques, supporting independent living skills and incorporating positive behaviour strategies in your practice as well as developing appropriate techniques to facilitate communication and key strategies for working with different groups.

Orientation and mobility are a key strand of the course, which you will learn through practical application. You will also explore specialist areas of service delivery such as rural travel and echolocation and how they might be used to increase independent travel.

The course encompasses a range of key concepts that are pertinent to enhancing visual impairment rehabilitation work practice within a multi-disciplinary setting. You will explore skills such as counselling techniques, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and evidence-based practice.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Medicine Related Studies

Degree

BSc

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Our BSc (Hons) Specialist Complex Needs Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment) is a top-up course designed for qualified Vision Rehabilitation Specialists who wish to take their expertise to the next level. It is the ideal progression from our FdSc Vision Rehabilitation Specialist (Adults). The course will help you to develop specialist techniques to enhance your current practice with adults who have a wide range of complex needs including deafblindness, dementia, mental health conditions and learning disability.

What's covered in this course?

The course is designed to equip you with the specialist capabilities required to support your individual role within a multi-disciplinary setting which will benefit a wide range of service users. Modules focusing on working with people who are Deafblind, Dementia and Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders will equip you to deliver specialist assessment and service provision for people with different needs.

You will establish competence in specialist assessment approaches, travel training techniques, supporting independent living skills and incorporating positive behaviour strategies in your practice as well as developing appropriate techniques to facilitate communication and key strategies for working with different groups.

Orientation and mobility are a key strand of the course, which you will learn through practical application. You will also explore specialist areas of service delivery such as rural travel and echolocation and how they might be used to increase independent travel.

The course encompasses a range of key concepts that are pertinent to enhancing visual impairment rehabilitation work practice within a multi-disciplinary setting. You will explore skills such as counselling techniques, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and evidence-based practice.

Admission Requirements

The key entry requirement for this programme is the attainment of level 4 and 5 qualifications in Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment).

Candidates must hold one of the following:

  • Foundation Degree in Rehabilitation Work (Visual Impairment): 240 credits with 120 at level 5
  • Diploma in Higher Education in Rehabilitation Studies (Visual Impairment): 240 credits with 120 at level 5
  • Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care in Rehabilitation Studies (Visual Impairment): 240 credits with 120 at level 5

Candidates who do not hold one of the above but have evidence of a level 4 certificate (e.g., Rehabilitation Officer Certificate; Mobility Instructor and Technical Officer Certificates) will be required to submit a CPD portfolio (worth up to 60 credits) and successfully complete the level 5 (15 credit) module ‘APL/Advanced Writing Skills’ module with an associated profile of experiential learning worth up to 45 credits in advance of an offer being made.

Applicants will be selected on the basis of the information provided in their application forms and two submitted references. 

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