Course Overview

This course enables you to develop your personal and professional autonomy, providing you with a comprehensive and critical understanding of professional practice, and ensuring that you are fit for future challenges within health and social care.

The course is flexible for multi-professional individuals from all areas of advanced practice within acute and primary care sectors – you access the same core modules. The negotiated competencies within the first-year portfolio module allow you the flexibility to ensure maximum relevance and application to your clinical area. You have the opportunity to develop advanced and core transferable skills relevant to your area of practice – you develop your advanced clinical decision-making skills, use evidence-based approaches to care, lead innovation and practice, and develop high levels of autonomy.

The course is developed in partnership with key stakeholders from practice and delivered by an experienced team with knowledge and academic credibility both within and outside of the University. This multi-professional team has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modules of this nature for healthcare professionals at all academic levels. You study this course on a part-time basis over three years. You are supported through your studies by an academic supervisor and you also need to identify a practice supervisor.

General Eligibility

You must:

• Have current registration with a relevant professional healthcare bodies such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council

• Have an honour’s degree in a health-related subject (previous experience and evidence of study at Level 6 may be considered)

• Work in a healthcare organisation, normally at the equivalent of band 6 (or above) within an area of advanced practice

• Work in a role which requires diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for a patient caseload for a minimum of 20 hours a week

• Have a minimum of three years, full-time or equivalent in part-time hours, post-registration clinical experience

• Be able to organise for a suitable practitioner (for example, a medical doctor or an active advanced practitioner) to act as a practice supervisor

Part Time Work Details

n/a

Language Requirement

• The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).