Health & Social Policy (Dumfries Campus)

Career Destinations

Why study health and social policy?

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_health_studies_your_skills.htm

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_public_administration_social_policy_your_skills.htm

Careers in health and social policy:

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_health_studies_job_options.htm

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_public_administration_social_policy_job_options.htm

Graduates from the degree have taken up the following roles:

• Project Worker, Enable Scotland;
• Sexual Health Advisor, NHS D&G;
• Smoking Cessation Officer, NHS D&G;
• Housing Officer, Loreburn Housing;
• Service Manager, Alzheimer Scotland;
• Team Manager, Richmond Fellowship;
• Project Worker, Crannog;
• Network Coordinator, Dumfries and Galloway Health Council;
• Project Worker, Prince’s Trust;
• Better 4 Walking Coordinator, Annandale & Eskdale Leisure Trust.

Other students have capitalised on their transferable (graduate) skills to take up employment in the wider graduate marketplace or as a foundation for Post Graduate Diploma studies in for example Primary and Secondary Teaching and Social Work.