PgC - Healthcare and Medical Leadership: Practice Development
At present, this programme is delivered under contract only. Please view our course page for PgC Management and Leadership in Health and Social Care which is available to independent candidates and includes two modules common to both programmes.
You will be required to undertake the following modules: Coaching and Mentoring (20 credits), Leadership through Transformative Learning (20 credits), Work-based Learning (20 credits). This programme of study is created to align with workforce development and supports professional progression. The 3 modules of this programme are contemporary, and have been tailored to ensure that they meet the needs of the Healthcare and Medical Service stakeholders, and will continue to do so in the future.
Reflection and reflexive practice are core skills that students will develop over the duration of this PGCert using a reflective workbook to record their personal and professional progress and provide iterative evidence for each module and beyond the taught elements of the programme. The PGCert Practice Development: Healthcare and Medical Leadership is one of a suite of programmes within the Practice Development framework. This programme has been specifically developed to meet the continuing professional development needs of individuals who are leading, managing and supervising at a strategic level (or aspiring to do so) within a variety of settings. The programme is designed to enable you to apply your learning to your own professional context.
The development of the PGCert Practice Development: Healthcare and Medical Leadership has been informed by engagement with key stakeholders 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. The importance of the development and enhancement of management knowledge, skills and behaviours for current and aspiring leaders and managers is crucial and the programme has been developed with this in mind.
- Study a course with a new and exciting approach to leadership. The focus is on self and how you impact the world.
- Be part of a wide network of fellow students.
- Receive supportive help and advice – we cater for all educational needs.
- Advance your academic and professional development through self-reflection and reflexivity.
Throughout this course, you will be required to undertake a review of yourself using reflection and reflexive practice.
How you will learn
A variety of teaching and learning methods are designed to match learning outcomes and to provide you with different styles to enable you to match what is best suited to your own learning style. We support your move to become an independent and mature learner.
Teaching and learning will include tutor-led classroom learning, including discussions and small group work. The course is underpinned by reflective practice and reading. Part of this course also includes flexible distributed learning using Blackboard.
How you will be assessed
We use a range of assessment styles, enabling you to perform to the best of your ability and representing the breadth of skills necessary to succeed in your chosen career. Assessment will consist of group work, presentations and reflective assignments.
At Level 7 (Usually Master’s level), you will be able to demonstrate that you have the ability:
- To display a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of your academic discipline, field of study or area of professional practice.
- Employ advanced subject-specific and cognitive skills to enable decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations.
- Generate new ideas and support the achievement of desired outcomes.
- Accept accountability for decision making including the use of supervision.
- Analyse complex concepts and professional situations by means of synthesis of personal and workplace reflection and data drawn from scholarship and research in the field.
To be confirmed.
Tuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.
Location
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