Environmental Health with Professional Practice BSc (Hons)

**OVERVIEW**<br/>UWSs BSc (Hons) Environmental Health with Professional Practice is a unique four-year degree within the UK. Nowhere else in the UK has the academic and professional practice in local authority elements of training being incorporated into one seamless learning experience. <br/><br/>This professionally-accredited degree has been developed with input from industry experts, local authorities and the Society of Chief Environmental Health Officers in Scotland and is the only one of its kind in the UK.<br/><br/>You’ll explore how the natural and built environment impacts on human health and learn how to keep people safe and healthy using science, technology, law and professional practice.<br/><br/>This degree will provide you with an underpinning of the basic sciences and environmental health before allowing you to focus on specialist subjects of your choice.<br/><br/>**PRACTICAL FOCUS**<br/>One of the roles of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) is to accredit University courses, as being the academic element of the professional qualification required to practice as an Environmental Health Officer in Scotland. It is an EU/UK Competent Authority for Environmental Health.<br/><br/>A key component of training to become an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) is Professional Practice. Within the degree, this will be completed as placements and will comprise of 39 weeks in terms 1, 2 and 3 of year 3 with a further 9 weeks in Term 2 of year 4 of your studies.<br/><br/>You will engage with the placements to provide them with the practical training in accordance with the REHIS Scheme of Professional Practice. <br/><br/>**PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION**<br/>This degree is professionally accredited by the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) and provision of this course resides exclusively in UWS.<br/><br/>**CAREER PROSPECTS**<br/>The BSc (Hons) Environmental Health with Professional Practice provides a direct pathway for you to become an Environmental Health Officer (EHO), by combining both the academic and professional practice requirements of training into the undergraduate degree, leaving students, upon completion of the degree, ready to sit the REHIS Professional Exams.<br/>**Jobs**<br/>This degree will prepare you for a successful career in Environmental Health, providing you meet the requirements of the employer and employment opportunities, and lead to the following roles after graduation:<br/><br/>// Environmental Health Officer // Public Health Specialist // Noise Consultant // Environmental Specialist // Food Safety - Standards Officer // Built Environment Officer / Housing Officer // Health and Safety Officer // Consultant<br/><br/>**Further Study**<br/>BSc (Hons) Environmental Health with Professional Practice graduates have gone on to undertake taught masters studies (MSc/MPH/MBA) in Environmental Health, Waste and Resource Management, Public Health, Business Management. Some have progressed to research studies for PhD in Environmental Health.