Please Note, the BSc Top Up was previously managed by the Organisational Development (OD) Team. All applications are now via SWAST CPD (since May 2023) which is the only route to apply. There is not an additional offering via OD.
The BSc Top Up / BSc (Hons) Paramedic: Practice Development programme will allow you to develop intellectual, analytical, and problem-solving skills, which encourage the development of mature and independent decision-making and reasoned clinical judgement within emergency and urgent care.
You’ll develop conceptual knowledge and a practical understanding of how techniques of scientific enquiry enable the critical analysis, interpretation and application of contemporary evidence within pre-hospital and emergency care. Develop graduate key attributes within the lifelong learning context.
The course will facilitate your development as a leader and change agent, able to respond to dynamic environments and contemporary issues in practice and provide a learning experience which promotes a collaborative approach within learning and training and effective multi-agency working with the patient at the centre of care.
Further information can be found on the programme web page
*Please remember do NOT apply direct via the UoC page unless instructed as your application will be rejected.
By signing up to this programme you will be committing to 120 credits of higher education based on a mix of the following modules.
Please do consider this carefully, as funds can not be retrieved nor reassigned to another staff member if you are no longer able to commit to the programme.
Core Modules:
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- Evidence Based Practice – 20 credits
PLUS
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- Negotiated Learning – 20 credits
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- Dissertation – 40 credits
Optional Modules- (You will need to choose a further 80 credits worth of modules / four 20 credit modules from this list)
Upon enrolment all students will liaise with the UoC admissions tutor regarding module selection.
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- Emergency Clinical Decision Making and Problem Solving – 20 credits
- Clinical Reasoning and Assessment Skills in Healthcare (CRASH) – 20 credits
- Clinical Complexity in Emergency Care – 20 credits
- Emergency Care of Women and Children – 20 credits
- Consultation and Physical Examination: Health Assessment Skills – 20 credits
- Advancing Mental Health Across The Healthcare Spectrum (Intermediate Level) – 20 credits
- Pathophysiology and Diseases in Practice – 20 credits
- Medicines- Therapeutics and Pharmacology – 20 credits
- Care of Minor Illness and Minor Injuries – 20 credits
- Management of Major Illness and Major Trauma – 20 credits
- Acute and Critical Care: Foundations for Practice – 20 credits
- Acute Care: Contemporary Issues Independent Study – 20 credits
- Patient Safety in Acute and Critical Care – 20 credits
- Disaster Response – 20 credits
- Humanitarian Action – 20 credits
- Multi-professional Support of Learning and Assessment in Practice – 20 credits
- Leadership and Change – 20 credits
- Work Based Learning – 20 credits
- Negotiated Learning – 20 credits
- Negotiated Learning – 10 credits
Please note, staff are no longer able to select Clinical Supervision as one of the Top Up module options with UoC.*
*If you are interested in Clinical Supervision, the SWASFT preferred module is the UoP partnership module. You can sign up here. N.B. Credits from the UoP module cannot be used as part of the Top Up programme.
Already completed stand alone modules with UoC?
If you have already completed modules with UoC, or even with another university, as you might be able to APL (transfer) accredited modules across to the BSc Top Up programme. Successful applicants should contact UoC with details of previous modules studied. Contact UoC here.
Academic Year 2024/25: Three intakes available in September 2024, January 2025, and April 2025.
Exact dates TBC, but last years for reference were as follows:
- Sept 2023: Week commencing 25th Sept
- Jan 2024: Week commencing 15th January
- April 2023: Week commencing 22nd April
Deadline for funding applications: Monday 8th July at 9am **Extended to Monday 15th July at 9am**
If there is remaining capacity in subsequent runs following this deadline, applications will be opened up again. But this is not guaranteed.
Please note, successful applicants will also be required to enrol with Cumbria University which is a separate process.
Please wait to receive instructions on this, as any early unapproved applications via UoC will unfortunately be rejected.
Applicants are encouraged to apply early, as spaces are limited. This course will be completed in participants own time.
Please note – once you are enrolled as a student with UoC – ALL UoC communication will be via your UoC student email – they will not contact you on your SWASFT email address.
Please fill in the funding application form below and click submit.
Please note application deadline in the course date section above.
You will be contacted up to approx 2 weeks via email to let you know if you have been successful as the CPD scoring process.
Please ensure you check your emails during this period to ensure your place is not reallocated.
Already completed stand alone modules with UoC?
If you have already completed modules with UoC, or even with another university, as you might be able to APL (transfer) accredited modules across to the BSc Top Up programme. Successful applicants should contact UoC with details of previous modules studied. Contact UoC here.
For further information about this module please contact University of Cumbria Admissions Office by email or call 01228 242912.
For any other queries, please Contact Us.
The protected characteristics monitoring form is separate to the main application form above; completion is optional & anonymous. We ask for information on your ‘protected characteristics’ in order to help us monitor our performance on equality.
If you have already completed this form since April 2024 & nothing has changed, there is no need to complete again.