MSc Advanced Leadership for Professional Practice / Course details
Year of entry: 2021
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Course description
The course is aimed at registered professionals such as dieticians, audiologists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, paramedics and occupational therapists who seek continuing professional development opportunities.
You will study content that reflects professional, UK-wide government and international benchmarks for advanced level practice in health and social care, enhancing your suitability for revalidation.
This includes contemporary knowledge and skills in clinical and direct care practice, leadership and collaborative practice, improving quality and developing practice, and developing self and others.
You will learn how to develop efficient and ethical ways of working that offer a better quality of life and care by placing service users and carers at the centre of decision-making and service redesign.Special features
Study this course full-time over one year or part-time for a maximum of five years depending on your other commitments.
Interdisciplinary learning
Learn from - and alongside - professionals from various fields of allied healthcare.
Tailor your course
Choose from a range of course units to suit your own interests.Teaching and learning
The course focuses on an active learning approach and is designed to prompt the discovery, processing and application of knowledge through collaboration and cooperation.
You will draw on your own experiences - both academic and work-based - when learning. The course will promote the construction of understanding through task-related activities and reflection.
We have extensive experience and good practice in online learning, with dedicated e-learning technologists to support you and our staff in making the most of the e-learning platform.
Find out more by visiting the postgraduate teaching and learning page.Coursework and assessment
A range of assessments are utilised to assess your knowledge and understanding and to develop intellectual and practical skills.
The dissertation unit enables you to consolidate your learning and demonstrate the achievement of outcomes by undertaking a project focused on a specific aspect of practice.Course unit details
Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) (60 credits)
You will initially develop your specialist knowledge and clinical practice, particularly in relation to leadership and management.
Recognising your key role in practice, these clinically focused units of study will enable you to enhance practice and service delivery.
- 45 credits can be undertaken from a variety of optional course units to best suit your professional specialism.
- 15 credits will comprise one core unit on Leadership in Professional Practice.
Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) (120 credits)
You will further explore and develop advanced clinical practice by selecting further optional units from the portfolio of units available.
- PGCert - 60 credits including compulsory course unit Leadership in Professional Practice
PLUS
- 15 credits can be undertaken from a variety of optional course units to best suit your professional specialism and
- 45 credits comprising two compulsory course units Advanced Evidence Based Practice & Leadership (30 credits) and Developing Practice and Managing Change (15 credits).
Master of Science (MSc) (180 credits)
After successfully completing the 120 credits for the PGDip, you may be eligible to undertake a dissertation from
- full or adapted systematic review;
- report-based dissertation.