PHYSIOTHERAPY at Canterbury Christ Church University

The BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy is a full time, three-year single honours programme that integrates theory and clinical practice. The aim is to develop high levels of academic and professional competence, preparing you for working as a physiotherapist fit for the future, contributing to public health and health promotion as well as in co-developing personalised, patient-centred approaches to care and treatment. Promoting interprofessional working is a central concept across the programme and in practice.

The programme aims to develop you as an effective, safe, autonomous health professional, who is able to work flexibly in the changing context of health and social care, applying leadership skills and technology as appropriate.  

You will be encouraged to be proactive and innovative, taking responsibility for your own learning during the three years at the university and your continuing professional development thereafter. Fundamental to your development as an effective practitioner will be your ability to draw on varied sources of evidence and clinical reasoning, skilfully applying the principles that underpin physiotherapy practice and the ability to transfer learning to other practice contexts. Interprofessional experiences will allow you to explore the roles of other health and social care colleagues to understand not just the service users’ journey, and that of carers in different contexts, but also recognising the importance of optimal services/agency integration.  

Why Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is a science based profession which aims to empower individuals to maximise their quality of life by restoring, maintaining and improving function and movement. With service users’ needs at the heart of care, engagement with physical approaches is promoted to optimise health and wellbeing and prevent illness. Physiotherapy is an innovative service and is founded on a strong, evolving evidence base and deploys its skills to meet user needs across all sectors and in all health and social care settings.

Canterbury Christ Church University has a well-respected, long-standing reputation for delivering interprofessional education to support you in developing interprofessional working skills. You will be joining other health professional students which can help you establish a professional network for life. Christ Church has extensive knowledge, understanding and considerable success in health professional education programmes.  We have validated two highly regarded professional programmes in subject areas new to the University over recent years, and you will join past students as pioneers for our new BSc Hons in Physiotherapy programme.

What will i study?

Our BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy programme meets the requirements of the UK HCPC (the Regulatory Body) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (the Professional Body). On successful completion of the programme, you will be eligible to apply to the HCPC as a physiotherapist; this is the same for all UK HCPC-registered programmes.

You will study an integrated mix of theory and practice, with academic learning at University and professional practice in a variety of placement settings in Kent and at times other sites in the south east of England. Clinical placement constitutes a minimum of 1000 hours, with increasingly autonomous practice as your knowledge, skills and understanding develop through the programme. During your third year, there may be an opportunity for a 1-2 week international experience, or to experience a completely different health/care/wellbeing setting in the UK.