Foundation Degree (FdA) Children, Young People & their Services Foundation Degree (awarded by UCLan)

18392W1 | Centre for Advanced Technical Studies
Start Date | 10/09/2024
Time/Day | 09:00 - 19:00 TUE

Is this course for me?

This course is suitable for people who want to develop their career working with children and young people from 0-19 years old in education and/or care settings.

ALIGNED WITH INDUSTRY

Tutors have a wide range of professional experience in youth mental health services, nursery management, teaching and training.

Partnerships with social services and schools and the dedicated placement officer supports those seeking work placements.

WORK PLACEMENTS

You must have a satisfactory DBS to carry out a work placement of 48 days. This is funded by the University Centre.

INDUSTRY RELEVANT

You will develop transferable skills for many different settings, working with children and young people in family centres to children's care, training and teaching sectors.

EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

Established links with teaching programmes, such as Kingsbridge and Skills Direct, benefit those who want to teach. Most students who join us without a job, secure employment following their placement.

Students have recently taken trips at home and abroad to examine children's services in Prague and Budapest.
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What will I study?

Modules include:

• Social Construction of Children & Young People in Society & Children's Services

• Professional Practice 1: Exploring Professionalism

• Children & Young People's Development: Introduction to Theories of Development

• Supporting Children & Young People's Transition

• Play, Pedagogy, Risk & Resilience

• Children & Young People's Development 2: Adverse Experiences of Children & Young People

• Diversity, Inclusion & Rights of Children & Young People

• Professional Practice 2: Exploring Professionalism

• Safeguarding Children & Young People

• Global Perspectives on the Lives of Children & Young People

• Researching with Children & Young People

• Work-based Learning in Children & Young People's Services

How long is the course?

Full-time for two academic years - attendance is one day a week plus placement.

How will I be assessed?

Assessments include: interpreting observations; case studies; reports; presentations; essays; research projects; and the production of professional development portfolios.

What qualifications do I need?

80 UCAS points.

You must have a satisfactory DBS (provided by the University Centre). You will need to work 48 days on placement.

Mature students with experience, a portfolio of work and employer references will be considered. Students must also have at least a Grade 4 English at GCSE or equivalent.

What can I progress onto?

Positions working with children and young people in the public and private care sectors, social services, schools, teaching in the education and training sector, family centres and children's homes.

With one further year of study you may achieve the BA (Hons) in Education Studies awarded by UCLan and delivered at the University Centre, or the BA (Hons) Children, School and Families, awarded and delivered at UCLan. Alternative top-up courses are offered at universities nationwide.

Other Information

As a student on a course awarded by UCLan you have access to their facilities including libraries, social facilities and the Students' Union.

You will be taught by a professional team of tutors with a range of specialist expertise in youth mental health services, nursery management, teaching and training.

Course Fees

£7500.00
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Nursery Education Teaching Professionals

Nursery education teaching professionals care for and teach children up to the age of entry into primary school.

Requirements: Honours, Bachelor's degree

Opportunities

2.02%
RISE in employment in 5 years

What could you earn

£13,420
Entry
£32,179
Median
£47,519
Potential

Typical Tasks

  • Assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties.
  • Observes and assesses students and discusses their progress with parents and/or other education professionals.
  • Supervises teaching assistants and trainees.
  • Undertakes pastoral duties.
  • Supervises and cares for children, provides a secure learning environment and ensures their health and safety is maintained during all activities.
  • Teaches simple songs and rhymes, reads stories and organises various activities to promote language, social and physical development.
  • Prepares and delivers lessons in accordance with early years foundation stages curriculum and encourages and stimulates children's learning.

Knowledge

Education and Training English Language Psychology Mathematics

Skills

Learning Strategies Monitoring Reading Comprehension Speaking Active Learning Active Listening Writing Critical Thinking Mathematics
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Special and Additional Needs Education Teaching Professionals

Special and additional needs education teaching professionals organise and provide instruction at a variety of different levels to children who have emotional, behavioural or learning difficulties or physical disabilities. These professionals may also work with exceptionally gifted pupils.

Requirements: Honours, Bachelor's degree

Opportunities

2.78%
RISE in employment in 5 years

What could you earn

£13,116
Entry
£31,255
Median
£46,766
Potential

Typical Tasks

  • Discusses student’s progress with parents and other teaching professionals.
  • Updates and maintains students’ records to monitor development and progress.
  • Liaises with other professionals, such as social workers, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists.
  • Supervises students in classroom and maintains discipline.
  • Prepares, assigns and corrects exercises to record and evaluate students’ progress.
  • Encourages the student to develop self-help skills to circumvent the limitations imposed by their disability.
  • Develops and adapts conventional teaching methods to meet the individual student’s needs.
  • Gives instruction, using techniques appropriate to the student’s disability.
  • Assesses student’s abilities, identifies student’s needs and devises curriculum and rota of teaching duties accordingly.
  • Creates a safe, stimulating and supportive learning environment for students.

Knowledge

Education and Training Psychology English Language Customer and Personal Service Therapy and Counselling Computers and Electronics Mathematics Clerical

Skills

Learning Strategies Monitoring Active Listening Reading Comprehension Speaking Writing Active Learning Critical Thinking Mathematics
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Pest Control Officers

Pest control officers investigate the presence of pests that are hazardous to public health or cause nuisance, lay traps to capture pests and treat areas of infestation.

Requirements: Level 3 NVQ; A Levels

Opportunities

1.13%
FALL in employment in 5 years

What could you earn

£8,741
Entry
£22,962
Median
£38,181
Potential

Typical Tasks

  • Treats wood for effects of termites, woodworm and other infestations of timber.
  • Returns to sites to examine contents of traps laid and the continued presence of reported pests.
  • Liaises with environmental health officers, housing officers and other relevant authorities where measures on a large scale are required to remove pests.
  • Advises property owners on courses of action to prevent the return of pests.
  • Lays traps to capture pests, and fumigates and disinfects areas to remove infestations.
  • Visits sites to investigate the presence of rodents, infestations and other pests that may be hazardous to public health.
  • Receives reports from public, property owners and authorities regarding the presence of pests and infestations.

Knowledge

Customer and Personal Service Law and Government English Language

Skills

Active Learning Learning Strategies Speaking Critical Thinking Reading Comprehension Active Listening Mathematics
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