Designed to support healthcare and healthcare science professionals to work towards a post qualifying award by undertaking units of study building on your work experience and qualifications to enhance your career progression.
Developed in partnership with a number of healthcare organisations to ensure that it meets their workforce development requirements. If you’re looking to work at a higher level within your existing field these courses might be for you.
Learn under the guidance of working professionals and experts of their disciplines, add valuable contemporary skills to your real-world experience. These courses are flexible so that you can complete them alongside your existing work and lifestyle. If you’re looking to widen your career opportunities and gain additional skills to complement your existing health sciences experience, these could very well be the courses for you.
Build on the knowledge and skills from Consultation and Clinical Assessment for Advancing Practice, progressing towards competence in relation to the critical clinical reasoning, diagnosis and management of patients, following comprehensive clinical assessment.
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This is a core unit for the Advanced Clinical Practice programme. It is also available as a standalone CPD unit for experienced healthcare practitioners working at an appropriate level of practice across a range of clinical practice settings where advanced clinical assessment skills are required.
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Enhance your understanding of the identification, assessment and management of patients who present with a range of mental health issues. This standalone unit will explore management plans that incorporate effective use of therapeutic interventions to promote mental health and wellbeing in your patient caseload.
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This standalone professional development unit is aimed at registered healthcare professions working in clinical in an environment with people with frailty.
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Enhance your understanding of medicines management to maximise your patients benefit. This standalone unit will develop your knowledge of pharmacological interventions to allow you to empower your patients to make informed choices and promote autonomy.
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Explore and understand the theoretical elements for applying simulation for learning, teaching and assessment of hands-on practical and technical skills.
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High quality supervision for healthcare professionals is essential for supporting the development of confidence and capability and underpins patient and practitioner safety.
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This unit will develop the healthcare practitioners’ skills beyond the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2).
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This unit will develop your knowledge, understanding and skills of Motivational Interviewing, an evidence based psychologically informed approach recommended to support and increase sustainable change.
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Healthcare educators play a vital role in our universities, workplaces and public services. Develop your competence and learn how to teach more confidently and effectively.
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The unit explores the complexities of building educational interventions. From planning to delivery, this will offer effective learning and teaching with a focus on health and/or social care education.
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Healthcare education leaders are required to work effectively and collaboratively across discipline and organisational boundaries. This unit will explore current theories of leadership, and leadership skills and roles within the context of healthcare education.
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This unit is focused upon the development of knowledge and understanding of the radiographic appearances of pathology in order to inform clinical practice and decision making.
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Designed with the Dorset Innovation Hub, this unit equips health and social care professionals to drive innovation and improvement, building on the Fundamentals of Innovation Adoption training.
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Play is children’s occupation and clinicians and teachers working with children at risk and with challenges need to have clear frameworks, working models and child centred interventions to build best practice.
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Take your career to the next level and expand the scope of your practice, to enhance patient care and improve healthcare service delivery in your own workplace, with the practical knowledge skills and behaviours and theoretical understanding you’ll need as an HCPC-annotated non-medical prescriber.
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Explore your understanding of consultant practice, and start your experiential journey of transformative learning, the vehicle to becoming a transformational systems leader.
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Play is children’s occupation and clinicians and teachers working with children at risk and with challenges need to have clear frameworks, working models and child centred interventions to build best practice.
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As diagnostic imaging services continue to become increasingly dependent on digital technologies and computers, the ability to engage with informatics has become an essential skill for innovation. Prepare yourself as a current or future professional to confidently evaluate and analyse informatics in clinical imaging.
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The development of enhanced skills in clinical assessment and reasoning are essential for allied health professionals, enabling practitioners to synthesise complex clinical information, interpret nuanced patient presentations, and exercise finely tuned professional judgement.
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This unit aims to support experienced practitioners to develop skills in integrating relevant patient data through appropriate and systematic history taking, physical examination and investigations to examine and diagnose patients with a wide range of presenting conditions across primary, community and social care settings.
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This unit develops the knowledge, clinical skills, critical thinking, and reflective practice needed to assess, manage, and coordinate person-centred care for individuals with complex and acute health needs across multidisciplinary healthcare settings.
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This unit aims to support and further develop your knowledge, competence and capability of supporting older adults at an enhanced level.
Learn MoreThe Centre for Workforce and Systems Innovation aims to drive positive change in healthcare systems.
We promoting knowledge exchange, and offering comprehensive professional development programs for healthcare professionals, healthcare educators, healthcare leaders and policymakers.
You can take units of study over a period of five years to complete your award, which may be a PGCert (60 credits), PG Dip (120 credits) or an MSC (180 credits) – not applicable to MSc ACP. The delivery of the units is designed to fit around your working life, taking one unit at a time. You can choose from a variety of units in various subjects, some specialist and others generic in nature, building an award to reflect your professional career.
Students wishing to progress to the full MSc will be required to take 60 credits of core units, consisting of 2 units. The first is Research Methods (20 credits) followed by a dissertation (40 credits) or a Service Improvement for Healthcare (40 credits). The decision of pathway may be discussed with your employer/sponsor (if appropriate) and your academic supervisor. NHS applicants may be eligible for funding through their employing organisation. Applicants for the full MSc may be eligible for a Post-Graduate Loan.
– With over 50 years’ experience in musculoskeletal health and wellbeing, we are a specialist provider of health sciences subjects, offering excellent specialist facilities, equipment, teaching and research.
– We recognise the industry’s need for high-quality health care workers. Our multi-disciplinary environment gives you the experience, key skills and knowledge to take away and apply directly into practice.
– Be amongst likeminded individuals, collaborate and take your place in our close-knit community of health sciences students, researchers, academics and practitioners.
There’s always something to keep you busy when you’re not studying, whether it’s catching up with friends in our on-campus gym or bar, or getting involved in our clubs and societies.
With an active Students’ Union there’s loads you can do to make the most of your university experience. We know health and well-being is important, so you’ll also get free treatment in the training clinic. And best of all, you’ll be surrounded by like-minded individuals who all care about the same things you do.
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Health Sciences University is seeking additional Lay Members to join its Institutional Research Ethics Committee (IREC). This is a voluntary, unpaid role, open to members of the public. You do not need any experience of research or of university committees to take part.
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