Caring for people living with frailty, in the health or social care sector is influenced by multiple complex factors and demands skilled assessment and management. Building on your existing knowledge from clinical practice, this course is designed to help you develop a solid understanding of best practice in the assessment and management of frail adults.

Key information

Award:

Cert(CPD)

Mode of Study:

Part-time

Duration:

14 weeks

Location:

University of Bolton

Start date:

To be confirmed

Course Details

This course is for practitioners who are currently working with frail adults in an assessment or caring capacity. It aims to deepen your understanding of the physical and psychological impact of frailty on a person’s health and wellbeing.

We’ll guide you to explore and evaluate evidence-based methods for detecting frailty and encourage you to consider appropriate theoretical principles as part of your decision making process. Examining the theories surrounding frailty can help you understand the causes of frailty and the long term impact frailty has on health and social care outcomes. We’ll also support you to develop skills in frailty assessment and care‐planning for patients living with frailty.

Highlights

Our dedicated academic team brings their extensive health and social care experience to the course content. Along with their passion for service excellence in health and social care settings, the team engages with highly relevant research, which means they can add valuable context and insight to your learning.
The course is part of a professional development framework, enabling you to use the credits you’ll gain by completing the course successfully towards the BSc (Hons) Professional Studies (Health and Social Care).
The course is designed to provide the flexibility to fit in with busy home and working lives.
As you study this course, we’ll encourage you to develop the skills, values and behaviours so popular with employers. These include action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, social and ethical responsibility, respect, and commitment to quality.

Key Features

The University of Bolton has been offering high-quality courses designed to meet the health and social care sector’s needs for over 30 years, so we have the knowledge and experience to anticipate and respond to changes in the health and social care sector.
We review the course curriculum regularly to ensure we include and apply contemporary theories.
This programme is a product of a strong commitment by the University of Bolton and Pennine Acute Foundation Trust, and represents an opportunity to develop and maintain consistently high standards of care of the frail adult and end of life care across our healthcare economy.
This collaborative programme brings together the expertise of highly regarded clinicians, educationalists, patients and carers, researchers and academics who are all specialists in their field, ensuring your experience is highly engaging, current and always centred around the pursuit of individualised care for frail adults.
On successful completion of this course you will be awarded a Professional Development qualification in Care of the Frail Adult worth 20 credits at Level HE5.

You should be working in a health and social care setting in a role where you can gain experience of working with frail adults.
You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
If English isn't your first language, you'll also need IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band (or equivalent).

Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.

This course offers academic progression in the specialist field of adult frailty and end of life care.

Course fees

Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £800 for the academic year 2023/24.

Overseas students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Overseas fee of £800 for the academic year 2023/24.

Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2022-2023 academic year: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.

The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.

Bursaries

Click here for more information about the scholarships and bursaries available to University of Bolton students.

For details of how to apply for this course, please choose your status from the options below:

Please contact Admissions by telephone on 01204 903903 or email enquiries@bolton.ac.uk

Admissions
University of Bolton
Deane Road
Bolton, BL3 5AB
United Kingdom

Tel: 01204 903903
Email: enquiries@bolton.ac.uk

International applications are not possible for this course

As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.

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We aim to deliver effective learning and teaching that is relevant to you both as a student and an individual working in practice. Using a number of strategies, including classroom work and interactive learning activities, we hope to stimulate debate and discussion that help you master the core concepts. In addition, we’ll focus on your individual needs by offering scheduled tutorial support where you receive personalised advice and guidance.

E-learning is also available through our virtual learning environment (Moodle) so you can complete further study when or where it’s convenient to you.

Modules

Care of the Frail Adult

Assessment methods

Level	Assesment method
Level one	Coursework 100%

Learning activities

Level	Learning activity
Level one	Guided independent study 82%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 18%

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

Meet the team

Lucy Doherty

Apprenticeship Lead - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Sue First

Senior Lecturer, Programme Lead, CPD Lead

Hayley Carr

Senior Lecturer

Martin Samangaya

Senior Lecturer - Nursing

Siobhan Doolan

Senior Lecturer

Danielle Ellis

Senior Lecturer - Nursing

Julie Fletcher

Senior Lecturer - Programme Placement Learning

Lynda Drummond

Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery

Barbara Dyer

Lecturer in Nursing

Bhuvana Senthilvel

Lecturer

Kath Newlands

Lecturer

Maya Nair

Lecturer

Phil Downing

Programme Lead

Sheryl Halliday

Lecturer

Tracey Williams

Lecturer

Julie Martin

Lecturer

Katie Bannister

Programme Lead in Pre-Registration Nursing - Child

Karen Bennett

Lecturer

Professor Russell Gurbutt

Teaching Professor

Helen Lord

Senior Lecturer

Julia Marsden

Lecturer

Stephanie Westall

Lecturer/ Clinical Educator Trainee Nursing Associate Programme

Ben Hughes

Lecturer - Health

Susan Coupland

Lecturer

Matt Smith

Associate Lecturer - Clinical Simulation

Clare Hough

Lecturer - Nursing

Aleeza Khan

Senior Lecturer

Emma Thoms

Shaun Kershaw

Dr Trish Houghton

Head of School - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Donna Kelly

Suzanne Masterman

Zena Bleasdale

Hannah Kerry

Programme Lead for Mental Health Nursing - Senior Lecturer

Hannah Perry

Rhianne Gould

Kirstine Bowden

Becky Stringer

Lecturer in Nursing

Rizwana Adia

Senior Lecturer

Chrissie Barker

Lecturer in Nursing

Nicola Greenlees

Associate Lecturer

Gina Lewis

Lecturer- Operating Department Practice (ODP)

Gemma Moss

Senior Lecturer/Programme Lead

Hannah Sheldon

Work-Based Apprenticeship Trainer (WBAT)

Kim Kelly

Lecturer

Jo Wroe

Lecturer

The academic staff detailed above teach across a range of courses in this subject area and may not teach on this course specifically.

Programme Contacts

Sue First

Programme Leader

S.R.First@bolton.ac.uk

+44 (0)1204 903755

Enquiry Team

University of Bolton

enquiries@bolton.ac.uk

+44 (0)1204 903903

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Course Details

Highlights

Key Features

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Bursaries

International applications are not possible for this course

Modules

Assessment methods

Learning activities

Meet the team

Lucy Doherty

Sue First

Hayley Carr

Martin Samangaya

Siobhan Doolan

Danielle Ellis

Julie Fletcher

Lynda Drummond

Barbara Dyer

Bhuvana Senthilvel

Kath Newlands

Maya Nair

Phil Downing

Sheryl Halliday

Tracey Williams

Julie Martin

Katie Bannister

Karen Bennett

Professor Russell Gurbutt

Helen Lord

Julia Marsden

Stephanie Westall

Ben Hughes

Susan Coupland

Matt Smith

Clare Hough

Aleeza Khan

Emma Thoms

Shaun Kershaw

Dr Trish Houghton

Donna Kelly

Suzanne Masterman

Zena Bleasdale

Hannah Kerry

Hannah Perry

Rhianne Gould

Kirstine Bowden

Becky Stringer

Rizwana Adia

Chrissie Barker

Nicola Greenlees

Gina Lewis

Gemma Moss

Hannah Sheldon

Kim Kelly

Jo Wroe

Programme Contacts

Sue First

Programme Leader

Enquiry Team

University of Bolton

Related courses

AdvDip(CPD) Care of the Frail Adult (HE6)