Course Overview

Advance your personal growth as a leader of education so that you can deliver excellent health and social care now and in the future. Effective leadership and management do not happen by chance. This practice-related course will help you develop the knowledge, skills and qualities to be an effective educational leader.

What is becoming increasingly apparent is the correlation between the highly skilled health and social care workforce that has the right skills, behaviours and education, and the delivery of excellent health and social care and an ability to transform services. There is clear recognition of how the educated workforce can effectively contribute towards the transformation of services and support the implementation of health and social care reform.

This course is aimed at all professionals including allied health professionals, health care scientists, nurses, midwives, doctors, and social workers who want to develop the knowledge, skills, qualities and behaviours to be effective leaders of health and social care education. The course combines education, leadership and service improvement and reform.

You will:

• Develop yourself within three areas: education; leadership; and service improvement, transformation and reform

• Be able to lead an education based project for the benefit of service user and or service improvements

• Learn how to deal with complex leadership situations

• Learn to base your education and leadership practices on sound research and evidence based practice

• Learn the skills to empower yourself and others to deliver health and social care reform and transformation through the leadership of health and social care education

• Gain the confidence to try new and creative approaches

General Eligibility

Undergraduate degree

An equivalent Bachelor’s degree normally with a 2:2 honours or professional qualification (if applicable) from the UK or elsewhere.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.5 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).