**Note: Due to the course delivery location and visa restrictions, this course is NOT available to international students requiring a Tier 4 visa.** **Location**: This is an award of Teesside University delivered in partnership with Stockton Riverside College (01642 865400). Indicate your point of entry as Year 3 when applying for this one year top-up. **Course overview**: This one year full-time top-up degree aims to provide further development opportunities for counsellors and meet continuing professional development requirements. You acquire a sound theoretical framework, and develop practitioner skills by reflecting on your practice and undertaking relevant research. You need to both demonstrate a high level of academic competence and the ability to think critically about your own counselling practice. This is achieved through a variety of written academic assignments, oral presentations, observation & reflection of practice together with a research dissertation exploring a topic relevant to your practice.

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: C895

Institution code: T20

Campus Name: Stockton Riverside College

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

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Level 5 (NQF) Foundation degree in Counselling or an equivalent qualification. Any candidate who has already completed a research study as part of a different degree programme at level 5 or above and who has a NQF level 4 Diploma in Counselling may be considered for entry onto the programme. Due to the nature of the programme candidates will need to provide written references from two sources. One of these should be an academic reference with the other being their clinical advisor in order to demonstrate their appropriateness to undertake and cope with the academic requirements. Levels of maturity and commitment to the course and professional development will be evaluated from reference material and during the interview process. The BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice supports equality of opportunity whilst recognising responsibility and change as an on-going process. During the application process the counselling team will be referring to the ethical principles of counselling and the course fitness to practice policy to promote open and honest dialogue. Suitable candidates will be invited for interview.

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Student satisfaction : 80%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 70%

Go onto work and study: 86%

England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1

Find out more about fees and funding if you are from the UK here: tees.ac.uk/fees. If you live in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man contact your education authority: gov.uk/student-finance. Fees for EU applicants will be confirmed soon. Note: Due to the course delivery location and visa restrictions, this course is NOT available to international students requiring a Tier 4 visa.

Teesside University
Middlesbrough
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Tees Valley
TS1 3BX