Leading Education in Practice
Postgraduate
MSc
Leading Education for Health and Social Care Reform
School of Health and Society
Attendance
Full-time
Part-time
Course
One year
Next enrolment
September 2023
In a nutshell
International applicants: please check the international intakes page for the latest information and application dates.
Advance your personal growth as a leader of education so that you can deliver excellent health and social care now and in the future.
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 dynamic, UK and international 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.
You will:
- Develop yourself within three areas: education; leadership; and service improvement, transformation and reform.
- Learn to base your education and leadership practices on sound research and evidence based practice.
- Be able to lead an education based project for the benefit of service user and or service improvements.
- Learn the skills to empower yourself and others to deliver health and social care reform and transformation through the leadership of health and social care education.
International
students accepted
This is for you if...
1.
You want to advance your personal growth and self-belief as a leader of health and social care education.
2.
You want to support your career progression within the field of educational leadership (NMC Practice Teacher, Teacher and Stage 1 Practice Educator (The College of Social Work)
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Advance your personal growth as a leader of education so that you can deliver excellent health and social care now and in the future
All about the course
This Masters course will provide you with real opportunities to develop your educational leadership skills and confidence for the benefit of practice; service; workforce development and themselves personally, professionally and academically. The strength of this course lies in its application to practice enabling you to apply new knowledge and skills to work. The range of knowledge, skills and attitudes required of an effective leader of health and social care education have been carefully developed into specialist modules.
You will be supported by an experienced leadership mentor who will help you analyse, reflect upon and develop as an educational leader. Your development will be targeted and evidenced against a recognised leadership quality framework and other educational frameworks such as NMC Practice Teacher (as applicable). We will also develop your skills of evidence-based practice including searching for, appraising, implementing and evaluating the evidence. For added value, the course also offers master classes, giving you the opportunity to further explore and develop the knowledge, skills and qualities required to effectively lead within an education context.
If you want to implement education focused quality improvements that are locally led, patient-centred and clinically driven, this course will help you:
- Explore the challenges and opportunities to influence educational policy that impacts on patient and service outcomes
- Understand yourself as a leader of education and to enhance your knowledge, skills and qualities
- Develop the skills to manage an education-focused change in complex and changing health care settings
- Develop project management skills and implement an education-focused change management project
The strength of the course is that it can be attended on a full or part-time basis and there are options for you to use credits from any existing postgraduate educational studies (NMC Stage 3 Practice Teacher and Stage 4 Teacher Award) towards the master's programme.
Year one
- Critically examine the theory, research base and impact of the drivers for health and social care reform on leading practice education
- Identify a clear theory and/or research base in the design of practice learning, teaching and assessment
Leading Education in Academic Practice
- Critically apply the theoretical underpinning to leading classroom based or academic learning
- Lead and facilitate learning within a professional and inter-professional learning and working environment
Enabling Change through Educational Leadership for Patient and/ or Service Improvement
- Enable change and service improvement through educational leadership
- Develop the skills to manage change in a complex and changing health and social care setting
Project Management and Methods of Inquiry
- Develop project management skills for an individually defined educational project
Dissertation
Implement an education-focused change management project
Please note that it may not be possible to deliver the full list of options every year as this will depend on factors such as how many students choose a particular option. Exact modules may also vary in order to keep content current. When accepting your offer of a place to study on this programme, you should be aware that not all optional modules will be running each year. Your tutor will be able to advise you as to the available options on or before the start of the programme. Whilst the University tries to ensure that you are able to undertake your preferred options, it cannot guarantee this.
The School of Health and Society
The School of Health and Society is a forward-thinking, dynamic school with a commitment to lifelong learning and real-world impact.
We live in a rapidly changing world, and we’re keen to leave a productive legacy of helping people at all stages of their lives, improving their physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
Teacher profile
Dr Jacqueline Leigh
"I am the programme leader for the Leading Education in Practice: NMC Stage 3 Practice Teacher Award and MSC Leading Education for Health and Social Care Reform. I have expertise in the field of practice-based education and teaching and learning in Higher Education. An interest of mine is pedagogical approaches that support creative approaches to teaching and learning. I have a track record of publications that support clinical leadership development and curricula design that supports the development of the healthcare leader and leader of health and social care education. I have introduced into the educational and leadership curriculum the Patchwork Text Assessment that is used by students to effectively demonstrate their ongoing health and social care leadership development."
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.
- Modules are aligned to the College of Social Work’s Professional Capabilities Framework ASYE, Social Worker, Experienced Social Worker, and Advanced social worker levels.
- Successful completion of the course demonstrates your capability to become a Strategic level social worker.
- The course supports The College of Social Work developmental pathways of Professional Social Work Educator, Advanced Social Work Practitioner and Social Work Manager.
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. Indeed this is a real strength of attending the programme.
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.
English language requirements
International applicants will be required to show proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.5 (no element below 5.5) is proof of this.
Standard entry requirements
Undergraduate degree
An equivalent Bachelor’s degree normally with a 2:2 honours or professional qualification (if applicable) from the UK or elsewhere.
You will be a health and/or social care professional.
Alternative entry requirements
Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL)
We welcome applications from students who may not have formal/traditional entry criteria but who have relevant experience or the ability to pursue the course successfully.
The Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) process could help you to make your work and life experience count. The APL process can be used for entry onto courses or to give you exemptions from parts of your course.
Two forms of APL may be used for entry: the Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL) or the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL).
How much?
| Type of study | Year | Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time home | 2023/24 | £8,280per year |
| Full-time international | 2023/24 | £15,300per year |
| Part-time | 2023/24 | Your annual fee will be calculated pro rata to the full-time fee according to the number of credits you are studying. |
| Full-time home | 2024/25 | £8,550per year |
| Full-time international | 2024/25 | £15,750per year |
Additional costs
You should also consider further costs which may include books, stationery, printing, binding and general subsistence on trips and visits.
Scholarships for international students
If you are a high-achieving international student, you may be eligible for one of our scholarships.
We have a range of scholarships available for students applying for courses in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Our Global Gold Excellence Scholarship is worth £3,500 and our Global Silver Excellence Scholarship is worth £3,000 - both are available for students studying in our 2021/22 intakes.
See the full range of our International Scholarships.