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Intake Dates
Start Date
22 Apr 2025 (Available)
Apply by: 08 Apr 2025
Details
Attendance
22 Apr 2025 (On Campus), 29 Apr 2025 (On Campus), 06 May 2025 (On Campus), 13 May 2025 (On Campus), 20 May 2025 (On Campus)
Course details
This is a core module for the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice. It may be taken as an option module within MSc Healthcare Practice or as a free-standing module. It is designed to support the learner to establish a comprehensive foundation in clinical leadership, which will support the ongoing development of self and others as leaders in advanced clinical practice. The module draws on contemporary research, opinion and wider leadership theory to equip aspiring advanced clinical practitioners with the knowledge and skills which underpin effective clinical leadership, including approaches to operational and strategic service configuration and quality improvement within and across traditional professional and operational boundaries. Opportunities to learn with, and from, colleagues include membership of multi-professional learning sets, alongside individual tutorials which support learners to plan and contextualise learning within clinical specialty.
Aims
The module will extend students’ capacity to synthesise and critically apply relevant management, leadership theories/frameworks and co-design principles to their clinical practice leadership role, including the evaluation of service quality, effectiveness and service improvements.
What and how you will learn on this module
How you will learn:
This module is delivered using a blended learning approach which integrates a variety of on-campus and online activities, supported by Canvas, the University’s virtual learning environment. A complementary range of activities are employed to engage you in the critical exploration of key topic areas, and the completion of formative tasks during the module also helps to keep you on track with the learning and gain feedback on your understanding of the content. A sense of community is developed and maintained with frequent opportunities for peer learning, enabling you to share your practice experiences and to learn from each other.
Academic writing and critical thinking skills are developed through ‘The Critical Thinking Skills Toolkit’ and other academic practice activities embedded within the module, that have been designed to nurture the skills needed to facilitate you to become a thoughtful, objective and reasoned thinker. This will help you tackle the assignment(s) confidently, understand marking criteria, use evidence, take a reasoned approach, make structured arguments and engage with other points of view.
What you will learn:
• Seminars will be used to introduce material, to provide guidance for further independent study and to summarise and set in context topics studied through guided pre-reading and knowledge acquired through professional activity.
• Workshops will offer learners the opportunity to engage in problem solving activities which will be designed to help learners to solve their own leadership practice questions.
• Scheduled discussions with the module leader and participation in learning sets will enable learners to explore topics in depth, sharing experiences and ideas, and developing their evaluative cognitive skills as well as their communication and negotiation skills, both in discussion and presentation to the class.
• The CANVAS virtual learning environment will be used to support the teaching and learning with interactive and online materials, including discussion boards and journal articles in the pre-reading resources list. The learning materials will remain available to the learners throughout the self-directed learning.
• Formative feedback will be offered by the teaching team throughout the module; this will include feedback after seminars and workshops and feedback via discussion boards/ email.
Course length: 5 Teaching days
Assessment
Preparation and presentation of proposal, including leadership plan and plain English summary (3000 words)
Learning outcomes
Communicate understanding and critical awareness of management and leadership principles, theories and frameworks in relation to own practice-based setting and with reference to both organisational priorities and wider policy context.
Draw critically on management and leadership principles, theories and frameworks to support and empower a compassionate multi- professional workforce in the context of advanced clinical practice, with a focus on patient benefit and personalised care.
Demonstrate critical awareness of the application of principles, theories and frameworks for service evaluation, quality improvement and implementation science.
Demonstrate confidence and self-awareness in motivating others and providing a leadership role model to promote a culture of continuous professional and organisational learning for patient benefit.
Course Information
Administrator
Course Leader
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Course delivery
Kingston WFD Admissions Team
Jane Dundas
Blended Learning. On-Campus sessions subject to change. If government advice changes, we may need to update our plans. If we do so, we will update this information, and will keep current students and offer holders informed by email.
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Course pre-requisites
Programme entry requirements
Fees
£1,156.00
Self-funding students will need to make a one-off payment for the module via our secure payment portal before the online enrolment process.