PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) with Integrated Nurse Prescribing

Program Overview

Course Details

The Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) (Health Visiting) course from the University of Bolton is designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the health visiting profession, with the aim of equipping you with both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to succeed in your career. Our programme was the first in the country to be accredited by the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative, which recognises programmes that support mothers in effective breastfeeding. We also provide training in the Solihull Parenting Approach, which supports practitioners in promoting emotional health and wellbeing in children and families.

Studying a course curriculum developed in line with the professional standards of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), you’ll cover subjects like leading health promotion practice, collaborative working for health improvement, safeguarding children, young people and families, early intervention, critical evaluation for evidence-based practice and V100. You’ll also have the opportunity to get hands-on and build your practical skills in partnership with our practice learning partners.

On successful completion of this course, you’ll be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) and have your name registered on part 3 of the NMC's professional register.

Highlights

Key Features

Program Outline

This Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course is designed to prepare practitioners for the role of health visitor. If you’re a nurse or midwife and wish to further develop your career through working with children, young people, families and communities to improve health it should be of interest to you.

Health visiting consists of developing, leading and managing activities that aim to promote health and social well-being, prevent health breakdown and improve ill health through working with individuals, families and communities. Health visitors seek to help individuals and families take control of their lives and protect vulnerable members of society, by promoting social inclusion and reducing inequalities.

The course aims to help you gain a wide range of skills and supporting knowledge, including leadership, communication, enquiry, advocacy, critical reflection and analysis skills. We’ll support you as you learn how to think, read and write critically around contemporary issues, in order to become a flexible, autonomous and highly-skilled practitioner.

What can I do with this qualification?

This course is designed to support the development of future health visitors. As a successful graduate, you'll have your name registered on part 3 of the NMC's professional register.

Health visitors are employed mainly by the NHS. Health visitors undertake home visits and see children, young people and families in clinic settings. The role may also involve organising and attending clinics and sessions in community and children's centres.

Universities and other academic institutions employ experienced health visitors to work as lecturers or tutors. Some health visitors decide to go into clinical academic research, which is a fast-growing career pathway for healthcare workers. Types of clinical research programmes include master's in clinical research, clinical Doctoral research fellowships and clinical lectureships.

On successfully completing the PgDip, you'll be eligible to progress to the MSc Community Public Health Nursing (Top-up), which comprises a 60-credit research dissertation module.

Alternative career options

Graduates can also use the qualification to enter a range of other careers. For some of these roles, relevant experience and/or postgraduate study may be required. Some of these careers include: