Learning Disabilities Nursing, BSc (Hons)

This degree integrates theoretical and practical learning to prepare students for professional registration and a rewarding career as a learning disabilities nurse. These nurses deliver specialized healthcare and support to individuals with reduced ability to process new or complex information, working in settings such as homes, communities, schools, hospitals, and care homes. The course equips students to empower and safeguard people with learning disabilities through holistic care involving individuals, families, and networks.Successful completion enables registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, developing skills for evidence-based care in dynamic environments and multidisciplinary teams. The program features modular learning with five weeks of study followed by one week of assessment, 50% practical placement, and financial support up to £5,000 annually. Delivered by expert professionals, it builds professional identity, critical thinking, and career readiness through collaborations with NHS Trusts. Modules span professional development, care delivery, and complex decision-making across three years.

Year One

• Becoming a Professional Practitioner

• Evidence: Your Profession in a Global Context

• Nursing Assessment and Care Delivery

• Understanding Influences on Health and Care

• Placement 1: Introductions to Nursing Care

• Placement 2: Delivering Nursing Care

Year Two

• Exploring Knowledge Through Curiosity

• Enhanced Approaches in Delivering Holistic Care

• Therapeutic Interventions and Innovations in Learning Disabilities Nursing

• Complex Decision Making Within LD Nursing Environments

• Placement 3: Delivering Enhanced Nursing Care

• Placement 4: Delivering Complex Holistic Nursing Care

Final year

• Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional

• The Evidenced-Based Practitioner: Professional Project

• Complex Care Coordination in LD Nursing

• Preparing for your Career in Nursing

• Placement 5: Coordinating Nursing Care

• Placement 6: Practising Autonomously

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content.