MSc/PgDip/PgCert Advanced Practice (Health and Social Care)

The facilitation strategies within the course will prepare you for the development of generic and specific practice at advanced level. In essence this course embraces the concept of learning at work to develop new ways of working and will develop the 'advanced practitioner' as outlined by the NHS North West Concordat for Advanced Practice (2009).

You will engage in critical self-assessment of knowledge and skills against appropriate competency frameworks in order to identify, in negotiation with their employer and academic supervisor, an individual learning pathway within the course.

The facilitation strategies for the course are dependent on sound group dynamics, trust and cohesion. The course will commence with an orientation programme, which will explore your expectations, roles and responsibilities, work based mentors and assessors and learning facilitators, along with confidentiality and other issues.

Facilitation will be complemented by academic and professional supervision.

Assessment

Assessment strategies have been developed to reflect the ethos and learning aims and objectives of individual modules and may include:

• Self assessment
• Peer assessment
• Practice-based assessments
• Critical reflective commentaries
• Portfolio of evidence
• Viva Voce
• OSCA
• Poster presentations
• Service delivery and organisational assessment and redesign
• Assessed essays
• Client management plans
• Written reports
• Unseen examinations

Staff Profile

The programme team includes staff from different professional backgrounds that have both clinical and academic expertise in a wide range of specialist fields. All are members of the Association of Advanced Practitioner Nurse Educators (AANPE) and contribute to the National agenda for advanced practice. Staff regularly publish their work in journals and at conferences.

Where appropriate clinical experts contribute to the delivery and assessment of modules within the course.