BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science with Integrated Foundation Year

• ambulance crews
• air ambulance
• Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART)
• minor injury units
• event work (e.g. festivals, equestrian events, motorsports and rugby matches)
• primary care settings such as GP surgeries
• hospital settings (e.g. advanced clinical practitioner roles)
• forensic paramedics working in prison and police custody areas
• education
• research
• leadership and management.

• Benefit from our experienced teaching team's range of academic and clinical areas of special interest and research.
• Study a contemporary curriculum focusing on providing quality patient care.
• Develop leadership and management skills.
• Access our fully equipped clinical skills suites, simulation areas and student ambulance.
• Train and practice your professional healthcare skills in an inspiring purpose-built environment, InterCity Place .
• Learn on a course that has service user and carer involvement at its core.
• Take advantage of the University’s excellent online resources, library, IT facilities and support services.

Within the foundation, we aim to build a picture of the circumstances that may have adversely affected an applicant’s education and academic potential. When assessing an application, we will consider a range of educational, social, family, and individual characteristics and experiences. Applications for this course will therefore only be considered if contextual entry requirements are met alongside the required academic criteria. The contextual factors will be noted from your submitted UCAS application, so it is key that these areas are completed on your application. Applicants for this course must not meet the A level and GCSE grade requirements for the three year BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science (B784) course.

• English (Consideration may be given to equivalent literacy qualifications)
• Mathematics (Consideration may be given to Functional Skills Level 2 in Mathematics)
• Science

• Applicants must also submit a strong personal statement in order to be considered.
• Before any offer can be made, successful applicants are interviewed as part of a values based recruitment process.
• All applicants for professional health programmes must undergo additional screening to ensure their suitability. We are typically unable to accept those with criminal convictions/cautions that were issued in the preceding two years of an application (not including fixed penalty offences, such as speeding or parking infringements). Similarly, we are typically unable to accept those who have had fitness to practise concerns raised within the last two years by an employer, regulator or another university. After a two year period, all applications that involved criminal convictions/cautions or fitness to practise concerns are considered by our professional issues committee to ensure fitness to practise on a healthcare programme. Screening includes assessment of disclosure and barring service (DBS) status as well as occupational health checks. Occupational health assessments ensure that applicants are fit to fulfil the demands of placements. As students undertake ‘exposure prone procedures’, successful applicants must be vaccinated against a number of diseases.
• Students must be 18 years old or over at the start date of this programme.

• Enhancing your application
• Values based recruitment
• Driving

* UK Government announcement on tuition fees

On Monday 4 November 2024, the UK Government announced a proposal to increase tuition fees for home undergraduate students from £9,250 to £9,535 per annum from September 2025 onwards. The University of Plymouth intends to apply this new fee from September 2025. However, implementation of this increase will be subject to parliamentary procedure. This change applies to new students starting their studies in September 2025. For current and returning students, the University is reviewing fees and will update you as soon as possible.