The School of Health and Social is based on two campuses, Southwark in London and Havering in Essex. The Southwark Campus is based in landmark building K2, that features specially designed lecture halls and teaching rooms. We have a range of skills labs suitable for a wide variety of professional courses, including practice skills learning. The Havering Campus is based in a purpose built facility with skills labs approximately 10 minutes from Harold Wood station and caters for our pre-registration nursing students, as well as post-registration students undertaking professional development.
Our outstanding simulation facilities allow you to put your skills into practice in real world situations, so that when you are on placements at one of our 60+ NHS partner organisations, you will be ready to hit the ground running.
You should expect to be on campus to focus on small-group teaching, practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. Outside of this, we’ll be teaching you through interactive platforms, such as Moodle, MS Teams and Webex.
We are very proud of the work our students have done on their placements over the last 6 months. We aim to continue to deliver 50% of your training through onsite placements, working alongside our NHS partner trusts to ensure teaching will be delivered in a safe, socially distanced way and, if necessary, full PPE will be provided in accordance to the government guidelines.
We have designed our courses to be flexible and supportive. If the ongoing coronavirus situation means that you can’t make it to campus, we can move quickly between online and face-to-face delivery if required.
Please see below for further details around arrangements in place for each subject area:
Chiropractic
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. The K2 building at Southwark Campus features specially designed lecturing and teaching rooms. You will have access to our state of the art Skills Labs which we invested over £2million on.
Nursing (Adult)
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. The K2 building at Southwark Campus features specially designed lecturing and teaching rooms. You will have access to our state of the art Nursing Skills Labs which we invested over £2million on, our Critical Care Skills Laboratory and Simulator Mannequins: SimMan, Sim Junior, SimBaby and SimMom.
Nursing (Childrens)
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. The K2 building at Southwark Campus features specially designed lecturing and teaching rooms. You will have access to our state of the art Nursing Skills Labs which we invested over £2million on, our Critical Care Skills Laboratory and Simulator Mannequins: SimMan, Sim Junior, SimBaby and SimMom.
Nursing (Learning Disability)
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. The K2 building at Southwark Campus features specially designed lecturing and teaching rooms. You will have access to our state of the art Nursing Skills Labs which we invested over £2million on, our Critical Care Skills Laboratory and Simulator Mannequins: SimMan, Sim Junior, SimBaby and SimMom.
Nursing (Mental Health)
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. The K2 building at Southwark Campus features specially designed lecturing and teaching rooms.
Occupational Therapy
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. We have three Occupational Therapy Laboratories, including an Art and Music Skills Laboratory, Splinting Laboratory and Assisted Daily Living (ADL) Laboratory. You will carry out a range of activities to practice your skills including using art, music and role play as intervention.
Operating Department Practice
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. You will have access to LSBU Operating Department Practice (ODP) Operating Theatre which is designed to reflect hospital acute care environments, preparing you for real world pressures in a safe simulated environment.
Midwifery
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. You will have access to our state of the art Real-time Labour Ward, Nursing Skills Labs which we invested over £2million on and Simulation Mannequins: SimMan, Sim Junior, SimBaby and SimMom.
Physiotherapy
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities. We have a wide variety of skills labs replicating real-life work environments including Adult Wards, physiotherapy suites and critical skills labs. You will be provided with an ideal setting for learning through the use of the latest technologies.
Radiography Diagnostic and Therapeutic
We’ll be delivering the hands-on element of your courses in a safe, distanced approach. You’ll be with us for practical sessions and any activity requiring specialist facilities where you can make use of our Digital Diagnostic X-ray Room, the Digital Interpretation Laboratory or the VERT; Virtual Environment Radiotherapy Training. We’ll also be welcoming you to campus for seminars and small-group teaching.
Social Work
We’ll be delivering seminars and small-group teaching for your course on campus. The School and its facilities are based in the landmark building K2 in the heart of our Southwark Campus. K2 features specially designed lecturing and teaching rooms. We have a range of skills labs suitable for a wide variety of professional courses.
Health and Social Care Foundation Year (Extended Degrees)
To ensure your safety this Semester we are delivering your classes online. Our highly qualified Academic Team will be providing you with timetabled events and online material to support you through your studies. We will be welcoming you to campus using a safe, distanced approach for a face to face session during the Course Induction week to ensure you are given the best start to the course. We anticipate being able to provide you with on-campus activity using the specialist skills labs in semester 2 to introduce you to your professional route. This will be subject to advice on social distancing from Public Health England.
