Ms Denise Thyer

PPS125 Academic and Professional Development

PPS200 Professional Development and Critical Thinking

This module will build upon the employability skills students acquired from the first year Professional Development module. It is designed to encourage students to enhance their employability through a supported program of work experience and achievement of the Advanced Career Development Course (previously known as the SEA award). Students will develop key transferable employability skills and achieve specific employability competencies through a mixture of methods including a Presentation, Mock Interview and a Personalised Placement Learning Record. Developing critical thinking and reflexivity in HEI and employment settings will be a cornerstone of this module. Students are placed within local public, private and third sector companies and organisations. The Placements and Employability team will source and allocate student placements based on answers they provide in a placement preference questionnaire. Placements are designed to develop skills, but also allow students to get a glimpse of environments they may want to explore after graduation. Eligibility/ selection criteria for the module: 1. Completed 5 units of the Career Development Course (previously known as the Bronze SEA award) 2. Completion of placement preference questionnaire 3. Attendance record throughout their degree (If mitigating circumstances have affected attendance, these will be considered during selection). 4. This module can take a maximum of 30 students.

PPS222 Employability Skills and Year in Industry Preparation

Employability Skills and Year in Industry Preparation is a non-credit bearing module that is designed to prepare students for Year in Industry. This module will focus on the underpinning and fundamental requisites required to gain, enter and progress effectively through an industrial placement. The module will offer personal and practical support in the application of Year in Industry placement. TB1 ¿ This will comprise of 5 taught sessions that will allow students to recognise and develop employability skills; understand how to reflect and maximise the placement experience. TB2 ¿ Fortnightly one-to-one meetings with careers consultant for support and guidance in securing a placement, checking on the application progress and completing required Year in Industry paperwork and DBS checks (if required).

PPS223 FMHLS Placement Preparation and Skill Development for Year in Industry / Year in Applied Practice

The Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science (FMHLS) Placement Preparation and Skill Development for Year in Industry / Year in Applied Practice is a non-credit bearing module designed to prepare students for Year in Industry/Year in Applied Practice. This module provides a collaborative and innovative framework of learning and support to students in securing and thriving in industrial placements/ applied practices opportunities and future career aspirations. It covers the core elements of the recruitment process - including job search strategies, networking, CV writing, and interview skills - while offering access to targeted live vacancies through Swansea University¿s business engagement initiatives. In addition to practical guidance, the module emphasises personal and professional development helping students understand their journey in relation to the development of personal/ professional attributes and discipline-specific skills. Through reflective practice and critical thinking, students will be equipped independently to monitor their progress, apply their learning effectively, and maximise both their placement experience and future career aspirations.

PPS317 Professional Development and Critical Thinking

This module starts with a five-day intensive employability boot camp covering the key skills that are essential in the workplace (Self-management, business and customer awareness, team-working, communication, problem solving & reflective practice). Following this, a work-placement (70+ hours) will be undertaken which can be spread-out over a number of weeks (e.g., one day per week) or over a shorter time period (alternative working patterns can be made in agreement with the module leader). Students will be responsible for self-sourcing a placement for this module. Support, including sign-posting, will be available to help facilitate sourcing. This module is a temporary module which will run for one year only. It is only being offered to students who were unable to enrol on PPS200 due to limited numbers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

PPSX00 Year in Industry

This Year in Industry work placement learning programme is specifically designed for students to enhance employability. The placements are embedded within the undergraduate programmes at the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science and are created to equip students with new skills and experience through industry work experience. The placement can be carried out in the UK or anywhere in the world. All placements must be a minimum of 40 weeks and students are expected to work a full working week with a minimum of 30 hours. Placements can begin from June, upon completion of exams. Please note that if you have any supplementary exams, it is your responsibility to inform your employer and book annual leave in order to attend any resits, which will take place in August. The deadline for students to inform us that they have secured a placement is the 31st August. Please note: For students transferring onto the BSc Health and Social Care with Applied Practice - We recommend that you proactively contact your student finance loan company to keep them up to date on whether you are going to be completing a 3-year degree or the 4-year degree with a year in industry. If you have not confirmed a year in industry by the 31st of August deadline you will be removed from the BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care with Applied Practice and will transfer to the BSc (Hons) Health and Social Care programme. Students MUST have their placement confirmed and approved by the Employability team to be able to proceed. The title of the internship `Health and Social Care with Applied Practice¿ reflects the nature of the placement year, with students supported to secure placements in the Health and Social Care environment with associated benefits for future career paths and employment. Such placements will give students greater insight into the opportunities available to them and first-hand experience.

SHS101 Social Enterprise in Health and Social Care

This module will enable students to identify the primary and secondary needs of society, using theoretical tools to identify how social problems are constructed and responded to. Further, it will introduce the concept of Social Enterprise as a community response to gaps in provisions. The module will enable students to explore the political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental factors of responses to social problems to allow them to evaluate the effectiveness of responses and gaps in provisions.

SHS201 Being a Social Entrepreneur

This module will allow students to translate knowledge of social enterprise into action with the development of enterprising skills such as identifying user needs and addressing these needs through collaborative co-design and action, being resourceful and leadership. This is an interactive and practical module aiming to inspire students to social enterprise and entrepreneurship by giving them an experiential introduction to community centered design processes. Students will build upon the knowledge gained in the first year module SHS101 Social Enterprise - An Introduction, progressing through a journey of community centered design, looking at the concept, theory, and design stages of social enterprise, translating this knowledge into a group-based project where they will identify a gap in provisions in their local community, design a social enterprise project as a response to the gap in provisions and pitch their ideas to investors for funding.