Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Science with Honours - BSH
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit

Accreditation

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-JMU-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

This programme aims to provide students with a learning experience in environmental health, which will develop their employability skills and their ability to articulate those skills within environmental health practice and places the student on the road to demonstrating their competency as an Environmental Health Practitioner. In particular students need to understand the stressors on the environment, how these affect health and the range of interventions and enforcement options that exist to eliminate or reduce the impact of these stressors. It aims to prepare students to react and intervene, and actively promote health and be advocates for public and environmental health. The programme also aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to evaluate the impact of their own professional work. The more general programme aims are to: 1. Develop knowledge and understanding of the discipline of environmental health. 2. Develop the knowledge and skills needed for employment in environmental health practice which is designed to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of the population and reduce inequalities in health. 3. Raise awareness of the population approach to environmental health that will enable the students to bring an enhanced public health dimension to their work with any future employing organisation. 4. Enhance the development of students interpersonal, team working, time management, computer, literacy, problem solving, numeracy, analytical / critical thinking, flexible thinking and communication skills. 5. Provide guidance on personal development planning at all levels, and thereby facilitate students development as independent lifelong learners. 6. Provide a supportive and collaborative learning environment, which is sensitive to the needs of learners, and widen access to learners from a range of backgrounds and abilities. 7. Produce proactive, flexible graduates who can respond effectively to change in environmental public health policy and practice. 8. Provide opportunities for the students to learn from work based placements and projects 9.To encourage students to engage with the development of employability skills by completing a self-awareness statement.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Understand mechanisms for the surveillance and assessment of population health and wellbeing at practitioner level.
2.
Understand legal principles and the use of legislation to protect health.
3.
Understand the principles of ecology and their relationship to aspects of environmental health, including the biosphere and its processes
4.
Explore and evaluate environmental and public health policy and practice.
5.
Critique public health related policy and governance at national, international and global levels, and assess the impact of public health policies and practice on the health, environment and wellbeing of populations.
6.
Analyse, interpret and communicate information and knowledge about environmental health, public health and wellbeing appropriate to the practitioner level.
7.
Draw upon published research, reports, case studies and documents to pose a environmental health related research question.
8.
Act as an advocate for communities, by involving them as active partners in all aspects of improving social, economic and environmental health.
9.
Support communities to develop their own capacity to advocate for health and well being and improve their own communities and health.
10.
Respond to direction and working in partnership to assist the development of cross-sectoral working to improve social, economic and environmental well-being.
11.
Reflect on their own cultural preconceptions and giving consideration to the views of others when working with individuals and communities.
12.
Understand key determinants of health and the development of environmental health programmes and services to protect the publics health and reduce inequalities in health.
13.
Conduct appropriate research to assist understanding, and the delivery of environmental and health programmes and the application of the findings to improve environmental health and wellbeing.
14.
Assist in the improvement of quality public health services, whether from local authority, voluntary or healthcare providers, through audit and evaluation.
15.
Advise others on environmental health and related issues and their impact on the environment and human health.
16.
Enforce legislation through application of the full range of interventions and mechanisms available for securing compliance with legislative provision, statutory requirements, and standards.
17.
Take responsibility for their own personal development and career planning.
18.
Identify and critically evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses as learners in different environments.
19.
Demonstrate leadership by working independently and as part of a team to improve the publics health and the wellbeing of individuals and communities.
20.
Communicate effectively using in a variety of tools and settings, both orally and written, with a range of individuals, social and professional groups about improving the environment and public health.
21.
Use basic numerical reasoning and interpretation skills to analyse data from a variety of sources.
22.
Use information and communication technology to store, retrieve and analyse relevant information from a wide variety of sources relevant to the environment and public health.
23.
Demonstrate the theory and practice of health protection, health promotion, health improvement and environmental wellbeing.
24.
Show initiative and flexible thinking when applying problem solving skills and analytical / critical thinking skills to improve environmental health and wellbeing.
25.
Manage own work, including time management
26.
Demonstrate an understanding of the nature and impacts of climate change and sustainability
27.
Explore and evaluate policies and strategies to promote sustainability and mitigate climate change.
28.
Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of risk and important contemporary environmental risks to population health.
29.
Develop an awareness of partnership working and participatory approaches to investing in health.
30.
Understand the rationale for political, economic and moral decisions in environmental public health policy and governance, including policy and strategy development, legislation and its implementation to improve health and environmental wellbeing.
31.
Demonstrate knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods to improve health and wellbeing.
32.
Demonstrate an knowledge of the impact of biological, chemical, physical, social and psychosocial stressors on the environment and how they affect human health.
33.
Demonstrate a knowledge of human biology and physiology, sufficient to enable basic understanding of the effects of disease on individuals and populations.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The teaching and learning is delivered through modules designed to engage students and facilitate the development of their knowledge and understanding and the learning is reinforced when key themes are revisited at each level. Teaching is delivered via lectures (including the broken lecture format),group work, tutorials, supervision, online activities, field trips, self-directed research and independent study. Lectures provide the foundations of and models for students to develop and consolidate their intellectual skills, while group work and tutorials provide opportunities for students to practice and apply these intellectual skills with feedback from tutors and peers. Individual supervision meetings support students in developing and writing their dissertation. All of these methods are complemented by staff and student use of and interaction within the virtual learning environment to support and facilitate student learning. These approaches are consistent with the learning outcomes of each specific module. Learning through assessment plays a major part in the development of these outcomes with assessments designed to help students achieve the module learning outcomes. Many of the modules employ diagnostic and formative assessment tasks as well as summative assessments. These are carried out at strategic points in the module to enable feedback and learning to take place. Assessment methods across the programme include: essays; reports; case studies; dissertation; interviews; reflection; presentations (both individually and as part of a group); online tests and exams (seen and unseen).

Opportunities for work related learning

Work based learning is a core module at Level 5 (5000ENVCPH). Students have opportunities to prepare for this module within the module 4000ENVCPH at level 4, where career searching and goal setting take place. The placement is self negotiated but assistance will be provided by the programme leader and the process is linked to the personal tutor system. Wherever possible students will be placed in a setting where they can experience professional environmental health practice. Students will be required to work on a project or a series of small pieces of work. The nature of the work will be described and agreed between the workplace, the University tutor and the student in a negotiated work based learning agreement. In addition students undertake a Practical Skills module at level 4 (4006envcph) where they work as a group to help resolve or contribute to a "real life" issue.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

The programme will offer the opportunity for students to study abroad following the end of Level 5. However, in order to comply with CIEH accreditation students cannot study abroad for a single semester and must take an additional year for their study abroad option. Students who select the study abroad … For more content click the Read More button below.

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

LJMU has approved the following variances to the Academic Framework to comply with the accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. 5003ENVCPH – students must pass all assessment elements of the module (minimum pass mark for each component is 40%) (Approved 28/10/20) 6001ENVCPH – module to be offered as … For more content click the Read More button below. Compensation is not permitted for any core module within the programme. (Approved 20/03/24)

Entry Requirements

A levels
Alternative qualifications considered
BTECs
International Baccalaureate
NVQ
Other international requirements
UCAS points

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH02-06) allied health