PgD - Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship

Year one

This course is 18 months long. In the first 12 months, you will develop your assessment skills, patient approaches and leadership skills whilst undertaking development within your practice also.

In order to meet nationally set criteria, the minimum required Off the Job learning hours will take place for example in lectures, seminars, job shadowing and industrial visits.

• Physical Assessment and Consultation in Enhanced Practice
  This module aims to support clinicians into theories associated with developing their physical assessment skills, with support of pathophysiology, diagnostic referral and onward patient care. The module will acknowledgement of deterioration and evaluative techniques whilst maintaining within scope of practice.
• Complex Patient Care
  This module aims to support clinicians into theories associated with developing their practice, including an understanding of patients with complex clinical presentations, the pathophysiology, acknowledgement of deterioration and evaluative techniques whilst maintaining within scope of practice. The module will also aim to support development of advanced communication skills, de-escalation and challenging conversations with patients with complex needs and their carers.
• Leadership in Enhanced Practice
  This module will enable the development of the knowledge, skills and behaviours associated with effective clinical leadership, reflected in the leadership pillar of practice. It will allow learners to develop and instil skills to support innovative and progressive thinking in response to the need for delivering safe, patient-centred care within changing and dynamic practice environments.
• Enhanced Clinical Practice: Workplace Learning
  This module will run alongside the length of the entire programme and will enable you to undertake work-based learning in alignment to your field of practice, tying all of your taught theoretical module and applying this to real world tasks to undertake, developing experience and contributing to reflexivity.

Year two

In the second year, you will develop skills in the research arm on enhanced clinical practice through completion of your workplace learning and undertaking a quality improvement project, in order to tie all learning together to put forward to your end-point assessment.

• Developing Practice
  With support of a supervisor, you will independently undertake a Proposal for Change project which outlines an area for quality improvement within the field of practice. This includes developing the ability to outline key objectives, argue or refute argument with support of current evidence, participate in a peer-review process, evidence understanding of research methodology, consider and anticipate impact and success measurement and ethical considerations whilst also making allowance for real-world practice application.
• End-Point Assessment Gateway
  This non-credit baring qualificatory practice unit will allow you to ensure all competencies are met and you are on track to undertake your end point assessment.