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PgC - Practice Development: Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care

The PGCert Practice Development: Leadership and Management in Health & Social Care has been specifically developed to meet the continuing professional development needs of individuals who are leading, managing, supervising at a strategic level (or aspiring to do so) in health and social care settings. The programme is designed to enable you to apply your learning to your own health and social care context.

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Course Overview

The development of the PGCert Leadership and Management in Health & Social Care programme has been informed by engagement with key employers and NHS commissioners who require a suite of modules to support management and leadership development for staff at all levels within their organisations. This engagement has ensured that content and delivery methods are appropriate for the needs of a diverse workforce (NHS and private and voluntary sectors).
The PGCert Practice Development: Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care includes shared modules with other programmes, affording you the opportunity to learn alongside a wide range of other students who are studying health and social care related programmes. This will provide you with opportunities to encourage the development of interprofessional values and perspectives, and to support the ethos of collaborative working.
The importance of the development and enhancement of management knowledge, skills and behaviours for health & social care leaders & managers is crucial and the programme has been developed with this in mind; TLA’s are designed to enable you to demonstrate application of these skills to practice.
Following completion of the PGCert Practice Development: Leadership and Management In Health and Social Care the Practice Development framework facilitates seamless progression to the MSc Practice Development to further support your continuing professional development.

On this course you will...

  • Study in a transformative, postgraduate learning experience for you to advance your academic and professional development through critical self-reflection and reflexivity.
  • Develop a mastery of complex and specialised knowledge and a critical awareness of issues at the forefront of your field of practice
  • Develop conceptual knowledge and advanced understanding of how techniques of enquiry enable the critical and objective analysis, interpretation and application of research and evidence within your sphere of influence.
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Course Structure

What you will learn

Our aim is to help you enhance your professional prospects and enable you to play an active role in developing your own practice. The facility to study modules online from your own home at a time that will fit around your shift pattern and day-to-day commitments further supports access to this advanced learning. We have extensive experience as CPD distance learning providers. All tutors are experienced in both clinical and academic practice.

Modules

In the case of the PGCert Practice Development: Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care, you will be required to undertake the following core modules:

  • Leadership through Transformative Learning (20 credits)
  • Management Within a Strategic and Organisational Context (20 credits). 

And one optional module, select either:

  • Coaching and Mentoring (20 credits)
  • Professional Advocate (profession aligned – nurse, paramedic, allied health professional, midwifery) (20 credits)
  • Negotiated learning (20 credits)

This programme of study is created to align with workforce development and supports the progression of staff, in accordance with the standards set by professional, statutory and regulatory bodies such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The 3 modules of this programme are contemporary, in that they meet the needs of the stakeholders and will continue to do so in the future.  

Year one

Core modules

  • Leadership through Transformative Learning (20 credits)
  • Management Within a Strategic and Organisational Context (20 credits).
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    Online Learning

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