If you're interested in taking your interest in management or health further, we've a selection of courses for you to take a look at.

Openings Course

Understanding Health and Social Care (K100)
This course offers a broad practical introduction to health and social care, whether you are engaged in supporting, nursing or caring for others, receive services yourself, or simply have a general interest. Using real examples, it explores the nature of modern caring, the effects of technological, social and political change, and the shift to more flexible, interprofessional ways of working.

Undergraduate Courses and Qualifications

Professional Certificate in Management (C31)
This course provides a broad-based, practical introduction to the key ideas, techniques and overall competencies you need in order to manage effectively and productively in modern organisations in any part of the world. It will enable you to use and understand the methods, techniques and language of the various functional areas of your company or organisation.

Professional Certificate in Management (Health and Social Care) (C40)
This course provides you with the knowledge, techniques and analytical tools you need to become an effective manager. It will help you to manage yourself, to ensure that you are doing the work you should be doing, to support your staff in the work that they do and, importantly, to develop the skills that underpin the delivery of modern health and social care services.

Certificate in Business Studies (C63)
This course will introduce you to the different internal and external elements of a business and help you to understand the context in which a business operates.

Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care (GO5))
This inter-diciplinary degree is suitable for support staff working in a variety of health and social care settings such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy and residential care. Students will have the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and competencies which underpin practice across allied health professions in the health and social care sector.  The degree is attuned to the NHS modernisation agenda and the Knowledge and Skills Framework.

BA/BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies (B47)
If you're a nurse and your higher education study ended with a diploma, the OU’s Nursing Studies degree puts an honours degree within your grasp. With your diploma of higher education (in any nursing branch – adult, children, mental health, learning disability, midwifery or health visiting) you can apply to use the credit from your diploma towards a BA/BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies.

Critical Practice in Health and Social Care (K302)
This course offers an all-round foundation for continuing professional development in the fast changing world of health and social care. It is intended primarily for those who are engaged and experienced in practice in health and social care settings working directly with clients or patients, and first-line managers of those staff. It will enable you to examine your own practice and pursue topics that are relevant to the work that you do.

Foundation Degree in Leadership and Management (G08)
This degree will provide you with a general understanding of organisations, their structures and cultures; wider considerations such as environments, markets and processes; and how all these inform leadership and management. It will help you to analyse leadership behaviour and management decision-making in the workplace, and enable you to understand how you can contribute to – and develop skills in – leadership and management in your own working life.

BA/BSc in Health and Social Care (B18)
This degree is designed to enable you to develop a sound and critical understanding of policy, theory and practice in health and social care. It will help you to develop as an independent and reflective learner in the context of health and social care provision, policy and practice. You will examine the context and processes of change in yourself, in groups and in services, including new ways of working across agencies and professional boundaries.

Postgraduate Courses and Qualifications

Managing Performance and Change (B700)
Get the tools and techniques you need to improve performance in your team, department, organisation or project. This course brings cross-functional perspectives – from markets, operations, finance and accounting, and people – to bear on complex management problems. Completing this course will give you a Professional Diploma in Management.

Master of Public Administration (F44)
A leading edge Master of Public Administration qualification for managers throughout federal, national, regional and local government, the uniformed services, public and voluntary agencies, and social enterprises. It will be particularly relevant if you are involved in delivering policy, leading modernisation projects, and supporting innovation.

OpenLearn Weblinks

The Open University has a range of educational resources freely availble online. The following links may be of interest:

Caring in Hospitals
Considers the type of care offered in hospitals, using Leeds General Hospital as a case study.

An Introduction to Business Cultures
Explains the relationship between research on national cultures and the development of the culture perspective in business studies and describes some of the problems of working in, and doing business with, businesses in other countries.

Making Decisions
A few key topics that will help you to think in broad ways about how you and others make decisions; also introduces you to some themes in social science which have direct relevance.

Content last updated: 05/12/2006

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