Education In Healthcare

This unit provides a sound theoretical underpinning to your practice as a healthcare educator. It supports the development of a full range of healthcare educator skills and opportunities to develop your practice as part of an innovative, informed and forward thinking community of healthcare educators.

The unit seeks to address the key question - How can I develop an informed approach to teaching, learning and assessment in order to be an effective and innovative healthcare educator? 

In addressing this question, the unit provides you with opportunities to promote best practice and innovation in learning, teaching and assessment while developing your role as an educator.

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.11

Pillar 2:  2.4

Pillar 3:  3.1,3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

Pillar 4:  4.5.

Research Methods In Healthcare

This unit is about engaging critically with, or evaluating, the claims made by writers, commentators and researchers about a particular field of study. This critical evaluation involves asking about the findings and the evidence that people have to support their claims. This unit focuses on examining the process of research and assisting postgraduate students to gain a wide range of knowledge and skills necessary to conduct research in the health sciences in general.

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.11

Pillar 4:  4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5.

Work-Based Learning 1 (Assessment And History Taking)

The aim of this unit is to enable you to experience advanced clinical practice both in your usual workplace and in other settings surrounding concise physical and psychosocial history to enable for you to develop as an autonomous practitioner.

You will have the opportunity to explore body systems in more depth.

The unit will assist you to then improve your clinical decision making process to plan care provision for the client 

Through this unit you will be shown how to use a range of structured and semi structured tools to assess the client’s physical, mental and social health status and make an appropriate referral.

As practitioners you will be expected to appreciate the implications of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for the assessment process.

You will work under the supervision of a practice based supervisor/assessor who will help you identify opportunities to develop your skills and to practice them safely and in accordance with the values enshrined in healthcare and within the NHS Constitution, professional codes of practice and national and local policies and legislation thus ensuring safe and compassionate care delivery.

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.11

Pillar 2:  2.11

Pillar 3:  3.2.

Leadership And Supervision In Healthcare

The aim of this unit is to provide you with the knowledge and skills to provide effective leadership, management and supervision of others within the healthcare team and the wider health and social care sector through a critical reflective account of yourself

This unit will challenge and develop your current leadership and management practice. This syllabus is based upon the current challenges   in healthcare delivery in the 21st century.  The unit seeks to address a key question: what are the strategies to enable healthcare leaders balance the requirements of an increasingly complex and evolving healthcare environment with the challenges of meeting patient expectations?

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.9 and 1.10

Pillar 2:   2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7  2.8, 2.9, 2.10 and 2.11

Pillar 4:  4.4, 4.5 and 4.6.

Work-Based Learning 2 (Planning And Evaluation)

The aim of this unit is to enable you to experience advanced clinical practice both in your usual workplace and in other settings surrounding diagnostic, interpretation and evaluation of care provision for clients. 

You will have the opportunity to explore body systems in more depth. The unit will then assist you to analyse the data you have collected, to enable a reflective approach to future interventions. The Unit will enable you to be more reflective in you care of clients and yourself as an autonomous practitioner.

You will work under the supervision of a practice based supervisor / assessor who will help you identify opportunities to develop your skills and to practice them safely and in accordance with the values enshrined in healthcare and within the NHS Constitution, professional codes of practice and national and local policies and legislation thus ensuring safe and compassionate care delivery.

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:   1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11

Pillar 2:  2.6

Pillar 4:  4.2.

Non-Medical Prescribing

The aims of this course are to:

•    Prepare you to successfully meet the standards set out by your professional, statutory, and regulatory body within the context of prescribing practice.  Allowing you to apply for registration to practice as independent prescribers upon successful completion.
•    Provide advanced, challenging, and meaningful education and develop skills, knowledge and attitude required for safe and effective prescribing practice.
•    Ensure you are prepared to practice safely and effectively to such an extent that the protection of the public is assured.
•    Develop a critical understanding of the role and management of effective prescribing within your scope of practice and practice environment.

This unit also adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.7,

Pillar 2:  2.11

Pillar 3:  3.2

Pillar 4:  4.3.

Mental Health Skills For Healthcare Practitioners

The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) and the NHS: People Plan for 20/21 highlight the need for healthcare professionals to advance their skills and knowledge surrounding mental health.

Mental health conditions and psychological distress often co-exist with physical illness and impact negatively upon quality of life/work and health outcomes.  

This unit will equip practitioners with the core mental health skills to support themselves, staff/colleagues and patients or their carers with their mental health needs. No prior knowledge of mental health is required.

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6,1.8 and 1.9

Pillar 2:  2.6, 2.7 and 2.9. 

Service Improvement Project

The ability to critically analyse issues and evidence from a variety of perspectives along with the ability to negotiate with staff and service users is essential in the development of a quality healthcare environment. The unit provides the opportunity to argue rationally for change and then devise and evaluate an appropriate strategy, including consideration of the impact of the proposed change and budgetary requirments A central question in this unit is: How do healthcare practitioners evidence their ability to critically analyse the existing evidence for current practice, and formulate views and judgments about how future practice might be developed and evaluated?  This unit will provide you with the opportunity to develop and exercise these skills in improving practice. The project you undertake will result in planned change for better and safer health care. 

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1:  1.1, 1.2 and 1.11

Pillar 2:  2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8 and 2.9 

Pillar 3:  3.2 and 3.7

Pillar 4:  4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7 and 4.8.