Key features

The professional educator plans, manages and verifies educational interventions aimed at restoring and developing the potential of those in difficulty, to achieve increasingly advanced levels of autonomy; he/she contributes to promoting and organising social and health structures and resources, in order to implement the integrated educational project; planning, organising, managing and monitoring activities within socio-health services and socio-health-rehabilitation and socio-educational structures, in a coordinated and integrated way with other professional figures within the structures, with direct involvement of the parties involved and / or their families, groups, the community; he/she works with the families and social context of patients, in order to promote reintegration into the community; he/she participates in study, research and documentation activities aimed at achieving the purposes listed above.

Career and employment options

A degree in Professional Healthcare Education qualifies a graduate to practise in public and private structures, also as a freelancer.

A professional educator deals with the design and implementation of educational interventions aimed at overall development of the individual, and social integration of individuals in difficult conditions: psychophysical handicaps, relational difficulties, and problematic family situations.

The professional educator works in residential rehabilitation, socio-educational or social-health structures with a residential or semi-residential format, in day-care services, in reception and integration services for citizens of Third Countries seeking asylum or holders of international protection, in labour integration and social inclusion services, in the hospital system, in regional services, in services aimed at minors or adults subject to judicial authority measures, in health prevention / promotion services, and in university training and research.