Public Health Practitioner (Public Health Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship)

This module will provide students with an introduction to evidence-based health promotion.  This will include how interventions are planned, designed and developed and evaluated.  Alongside this, students will learn how to access and use the evidence base, from which informed advice can be provided and research carried out.

This module will introduce you to population and community-based health promotion approaches, explore theoretical underpinnings to behaviour change and how public health interventions are developed and evaluated.

This module will give students knowledge and understanding of infectious disease, and the challenges and successes of disease prevention and management.  Students will also learn about the range of environmental hazards that can pose a risk to the public’s health and an understanding of how to mitigate these risks.

This module will introduce students to methods for classifying health and disease. Students will also learn about the technical, legal, and ethical issues that relate to using routine health surveillance data.

This module will provide students with knowledge about health care service design, planning, delivery and evaluation, drawing on best practice guidance and quality assurance frameworks.  Students will also develop an understanding of the complexities of measuring health improvement and of setting performance indicators.

This module will focus on developing your academic and reflective skills to capture evidence of core public health skills gained, in line with the Public Health Practitioner (PHP) framework. You will develop skills in recording and reporting on evidence of skill development to support portfolio development.

On this module, students will learn skills for communicating health messages using different platforms, including the increasing use of digital health communications.  Students will also learn about the barriers and facilitators to health communication within different population groups.

This module focuses on developing your understanding of collaborative working across agencies involved in public health. You will explore the boundaries which impact on health outcomes and health inequalities.

This module will provide students with knowledge and understanding of how policies and strategies are proposed, adopted and used locally and nationally.  It will also look at the role of policies in bringing about change (including the use of behavioural change theories) to impact health and wellbeing.

In this module you will develop an understanding of key ethical considerations that impact on public health and health inequalities. You will learn how ethical frameworks can support decision making and explore ethical issues in relation to a particular area of public health you find interesting, such as smoking, inactivity, poor nutrition, or mental health and wellbeing.

This module will provide students with the knowledge of how health and care services are funded, commissioned and procured.  Students will also learn about measuring health improvement progress against key performance indicators.

This module will focus on developing academic and reflective skills to capture evidence of core public health skills gained, in line with the Public Health Practitioner (PHP) framework. You will develop skills in recording and reporting on evidence of skill development to support portfolio development, collaboration with others and critical analysis and synthesis of personal evidence.

This module will provide students with an understanding of the role of leadership in decision making and change management within organisations applicable to public health. You will learn about the principles of project management, corporate governance and accountability and the importance of evaluation, audit and quality assurance.

This module will provide students with an understanding of how to manage resources to achieve value for money and equitable health outcomes at a population/systems level.

This module will consolidate the work developed at L4 and L5 and reflect and review on your skill development across all of the Public Health Practitioner (PHP) framework. You will engage in reflective activities relating to stakeholder engagement and public health programme development and implementation. You will continue to develop skills in recording and reporting on evidence of skill development to support portfolio development.