Essential Massage Skills: Integrative Healthcare, Soft Tissue and Sports Therapy SCQF Level 5/6

What is special about this course?

The Essential Massage Skills course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required for progression to further and higher academic qualifications in:

• Integrative Healthcare
• Complementary Therapies
• Soft Tissue Therapy
• Sport Therapy

This course is suitable if you have an interest in hands on therapies and/or integrative healthcare or if you are looking to enter the healthcare sector whether you:

• are a school leaver
• are returning to education
• are looking for a career change
• have an interest in hands on therapies
• have an interest in Integrative Healthcare

Special features: 

• You will study a variety of subjects preparing you for further study
• You will gain practical skills in body massage treatments
• You will gain knowledge in health, nutrition and anatomy of the body
• An ideal starting point for returners to education.
• There is an opportunity for volunteering during the time of study.

You will have the opportunity for field trips and external engagement during the course.

Entry requirements

• Three National 4s OR
• A SCQF Level 4 or 5 course or equivalent.
• Applications are encouraged from prospective students without the standard entry requirements as listed above.

Course content includes: 

A variety of units will be studied, providing you with underpinning knowledge of many aspects of

• complementary therapies
• soft tissue therapy
• sports therapy
• nutrition and wellbeing
• academic and study skills
• clinical skills, resilience, and self-awareness

The core units of this course link with the BSc (Hons) Integrative Healthcare degree, the HNC Soft Tissue Therapy, and the HND Sports Therapy programmes, enabling a smooth transition if you wish to progress into a higher education course.
 

Equipment

You will be required to purchase a uniform for this course (Approx. £130). If you are eligible for a bursary these costs will be covered.

Fees

Normally, if you are studying full time for the first time and are Ordinarily Resident in Scotland your course fees will be covered through the information you provide on your course application.

If you are studying part time and are on low income or in receipt of certain benefits your course fees may be covered by a fee waiver.

If you are not Ordinarily Resident in Scotland, you may need to pay course fees.

Please refer to our Fees and Funding section for more information.

* Fees for 2024/25 are still to be confirmed.

Funding

Our Student Finance Advisers can advise you on all aspects of student funding. The support available depends upon your personal circumstances.

Please refer to our Fees and Funding section for more information.