In the second year of the programme BSc Health Promotion and Public Health Students have a 4-week placement. The placement provides students with opportunities to demonstrate knowledge and skills to respond to changing priorities and health needs in health promotion and public health practice.

Examples of placements include: 

• Example of placement areas include:
• Integrated Care Board Place Teams
• Headway Brain Injury Charity,
• Local Universities Health Promotion teams
• Housing Choice Learning Disabilities Charity
• Housing and Homelessness teams
• Drug and Alcohol services
• International Mineral Mining Company
• Eco Centre 

Examples of activities that students engaged with include:

• Developing a health promotion schedule of topics with the local Football Club
• Mental health podcasts for students
• Creation of a mindfulness garden
• Healthy heart events
• Health needs assessments for young people’s sexual health

While it is your responsibility to organise the placement, we will guide you as to suitable options locally, nationally and internationally and will be provide relevant contacts. If travel and accommodation is required for the placement, you will be expected to fund this yourself.

In order to undertake a placement, you will need to achieve the relevant academic requirements as set by the university and meet any requirements specified by the placement host.

Career Opportunities

• Health promotion specialist – employed by local authorities to improve the health of communities on specific projects e.g. tobacco control, children’s health or developing community facilities 

• Smoking cessation advisors working one-to-one with smokers wanting to quit 

• Sexual health workers working with young people 

• Mental health specialist working with a homeless project 

• Health trainer working one-to-one with people who want to lose weight 

• Working with ethnic minorities groups to promote uptake of health screening  

• Working with older people to prevent falls in the home 

Hear from Dr Katharine Whittingham about the careers and employability of future graduates of our health promotion and public health course. 

Please note:  In order to undertake a placement, you will need to achieve the relevant academic requirements as set by the University and meet any requirements specified by the placement host. There is no guarantee that you will be able to undertake a placement as part of your course.