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HSFC Careers

This is the Posterous site of Havant Sixth Form College Careers Service and the content is intended for our current students primarily, but we hope that students considering to apply to the college along with our ex students will also find it useful. We also have a Parent Space for the parents and guardians of our students to make use of.

NEW BSc (Hons) Healthcare: Management, Policy and Research launched at the University of Southampton

NEW BSc (Hons) Healthcare: Management, Policy and Research

Dear Student,

I’m writing to introduce you to a new course we have starting in September 2013: BSc (Hons) Healthcare: Management, Policy and Research.

This degree is an innovative and pioneering course, which has been developed in response to a need for more highly skilled leaders, policy makers and researchers in healthcare.

Healthcare systems are highly complex environments.  This degree will give students the skills they need to understand this complexity and use this knowledge to solve problems and make decisions around healthcare delivery and design.

The programme lasts four years and includes a one year paid work placement, which will give students the confidence, competence and track record of work experience that they need to make a successful start to their career. This will also prepare graduates for a wide range of employment opportunities by emphasising quantitative skills and independent critical thinking and decision making.

In addition, the student showing the highest research potential following successful completion of the degree will receive a fully funded three year PhD studentship in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

 There will be an opportunity for prospective students to learn more about this course at our Open Afternoon on 28th November 2012. 
  
 
Kind regards,
Lizzie

Lizzie Denyer
Senior Administrative Officer – Recruitment

Student and Academic Administration
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Southampton
Room 2029 | B67 University Road | Highfield Campus
Southampton | SO17 1BJ

 

Health Sciences Open Afternoon


28 November 2012 
Nightingale Building, Highfield Campus

16:00 Nursing & Midwifery
            Occupational Therapy

17:00 Healthcare:
             Management, Policy 
             & Research

 18:00 Nursing & Midwifery
             Healthcare Science

To book your place on one these sessions and for more information on this event, please contacte.denyer@southampton.ac.uk

Will the new ministers understand the link between social care and health?

from: http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/11/new-ministers-link-social-care-health?cat=society&type=article

There is hope that at least Norman Lamb, who replaces Paul Burstow as care minister, will appreciate that cuts in social care will have a significant impact on health
Norman Lamb MP
Norman Lamb – now Jeremy Hunt's deputy in the Department of Health – has a keen grasp of health issues. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian
David Brindle

The Guardian, Tue 11 Sep 2012 17.30 BST

Comment

The social care world has not always been convinced that the health world "gets it" when it comes to the interdependency of the two systems. With more than nine in 10 respondents in the Guardian's healthcare network survey recognising that cuts in social care will have a significant impact on health, it appears the message is now heard loud and clear in the NHS. But will it also be heard in government?
Last week's reshuffle included the departure from the Department of Health of ministers who, whatever their weaknesses, did show signs that they got it. An unprecedented £4bn of NHS money is being transferred to social care or earmarked to support integration of the systems, recognising that local authorities are being clobbered by cuts, and that investment upstream in care and support in the community saves much more downstream in costly hospital admissions.
Will the new health ministers get it too? Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is on a steep learning curve and there will be concern that his presumed brief – to make the NHS reforms of his predecessor, Andrew Lansley, better appreciated – will tempt him towards populist policies. These would not include being seen to take money from hospitals to spend on social care.
On the other hand, Hunt's deputy Norman Lamb, who replaces his Lib Dem colleague Paul Burstow, comes with a keen grasp of the broader agenda, having been his party's health spokesman before the general election. And Dr Dan Poulter, a new junior minister (impressed as a backbencher and continuing part-time hospital doctor), with his understanding of the health and social care system as a whole.
Lamb was a key player in the ill-fated cross-party negotiations on long-term care funding in the runup to the election. His top priority will be for the coalition to commit to implementation of the reform proposals tabled subsequently by thecommission led by economist Andrew Dilnot. Although some journalists were briefed in August that David Cameron had resolved belatedly to do so, having indicated in July that the issue was parked in the long grass, no detail has been forthcoming.
The reshuffle, and the Treasury's deepening problems, throw fresh doubt in this direction. A report on NHS spending by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Nuffield Trust put the options starkly: an unreformed social care system would cost an extra 3.3% a year between 2014 and 2022; implementing Dilnot's £35,000 cap on individual lifetime liability for care costs would cost an extra 5.4% a year – about £3bn more annually by 2022.
Yet the wisest heads know that maintaining the status quo would be a false economy. In a report published last week, the King's Fund health thinktank says there needs to be "a major shift" in how and where health and social care is delivered. "Nowhere is the need for fundamental change more apparent than in social care, where arrangements rooted in the 1940s have not kept pace with social and demographic changes."
Sarah Pickup, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, welcomes the conclusive verdict of health professionals in our survey, but she would like to see the underlying logic applied to positive investment in care and support.
"We need to be taking [what people in health have learned] about the effect of reduced spending in social care and saying that if you actually increase spending, you will have a positive impact on health," Pickup says. "I'm not sure that message is fully understood yet."
• David Brindle is the Guardian's public services editor

Social Work Event - 10th October 2012 at Portsmouth Uni

University of Portsmouth have contacted us with the following invite.  If you are interested please contact Careers to book and we will coordinate the booking.

 

Dear colleague
 
Please find attached and below a reminder of our Social Work event we are hosting on the 10th October, I do hope your students will be able to join us.
 
The University of Portsmouth would like to invite you and your students to attend an afternoon event focussing on preparing students for application to the BSc (Hons) Social Work degree. This will be held on Wednesday 10th October, 1pm-5pm.
 
The event is aimed at students planning to apply in Autumn 2012 to give them additional information, tips for their application and allow them an opportunity to speak with Social Work professionals and current students.
 
Please find attached further details and a booking form. If you would like to book places please return the completed booking form to me at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
 
Kind regards, Charlotte Wheatland
 
 

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Welcome to the new Health & Social Care careers space

This is the HFSC careers space for students interested in careers in the Health & Social Care sector including Social Work.

Have a look at our "sites I like" for useful websites.  We will be posting information about events both on and off campus and interesting articles relating to this sector.

If you become a follower of this page you will be emailed new posts.

Best wishes

HFSC Careers team.