Advance your personal growth as a leader of education so that you can deliver excellent health and social care now and in the future. Effective leadership and management do not happen by chance. This practice-related course will help you develop the knowledge, skills and qualities to be an effective educational leader.

What is becoming increasingly apparent is the correlation between the highly skilled health and social care workforce that has the right skills, behaviours and education, and the delivery of excellent health and social care and an ability to transform services. There is clear recognition of how the educated workforce can effectively contribute towards the transformation of services and support the implementation of health and social care reform.

This course is aimed at all professionals including allied health professionals, health care scientists, nurses, midwives, doctors, and social workers who want to develop the knowledge, skills, qualities and behaviours to be effective leaders of health and social care education. The course combines education, leadership and service improvement and reform.

WHAT ABOUT AFTER UNI?

• Completing CPD is now an essential part of maintaining your professional registration.
• By undertaking CPD modules and courses, students demonstrate to employers a commitment to the profession.
• Undertaking modules lead to better career prospects and promotion.

Following completion of the course, you will have developed the expertise to lead education in health and social care contexts. There are opportunities for you to use credits from any existing postgraduate educational studies (NMC Stage 3 Practice Teacher and Stage 4 Teacher Award) towards this Master’s programme. This provides you with a flexible and dynamic educational leadership career pathway.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

This course is suitable for all UK and international health and social care professionals: Allied health professionals, health care scientists, nurses, midwives and doctors who want to develop the knowledge, skills and qualities to be an effective leader of health and social care education.

Students can also exit with PGDip award