Postgraduate Prospectus

This course aims to recruit health and social care professionals who are working in, or wish to progress towards, positions of clinical leadership with responsibility for leading innovation and modernisation of health and social care.

The programme will equip its students with the knowledge and skills required to demonstrate effective clinical leadership of their service, implement their organisation’s vision, innovate within their role and lead and motivate their staff within the context of the public and government demand for improving and modernising health and social care services. The development of analytical and critical thinking will be fostered through a student-centred and facilitative approach to teaching and learning within a school environment and ethos or valuing and respecting the student’s existing professional knowledge and experience.

Features of the programme include:

• Focus on the development of clinical leadership skills, which are considered central to the cultural and organisational changes taking place in the health service. This course will increase personal confidence and help students to steer their way through these challenges
• Emphasis on innovative practice, enabling NHS staff to continue to provide high quality care while integrating new ideas and ways of working to deliver ‘best care best value’ in their local practice
• Delivering the contemporary management and leadership theories at a postgraduate level in line with the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework meeting the requirements for career progression.

This programme incorporates a work-based learning module, which encourages immediate application of theory to practice and gives the opportunity for service improvement. The course must be completed within two years.

A flyer for this course can be downloaded here.

 

• We have a powerful research faculty with 350 academic and support staff, as well as 3,500 students
• We are among the top few places to study nursing in the country, according to the Guardian’s University Guide 2011
• We are fifth in the UK for nursing research power following the last RAE results
• Our teaching is rated as ‘excellent’ by the independent Quality Assurance Agency

The courses and research opportunities listed on this website are subject to change. While we will do all we can to ensure the information on these pages is accurate and up-to-date, The University of Nottingham reserves the right to change the content, modules and titles of any courses and research opportunities listed here without prior warning.