Program Overview

Work-based Learning for Individual and Organisational Transformation

Overview

This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive skill set and knowledge base to drive positive change within their respective fields. Through a focus on education, leadership, and service improvement, transformation, and reform, participants will enhance their expertise while contributing to the advancement of their practice area.

Course Details

Attendance

• Part-time
• Nine month
• 18 month

Next Enrolment

• June 2025

Introduction

This work-based learning programme will help you to:

• Develop and equip you with the knowledge and skills to create and transform your area of practice
• Develop yourself within three areas: education; leadership; and service improvement, transformation, and reform
• Allows you to focus on developing your knowledge and skills to enhance your area of practice
• Be able to lead a work-based project for the benefit of service users and/or service improvements
• Learn how to deal with complex problems through work-based learning, development, and project leadership
• Learn to base your practice on sound research and evidence-based practice
• Learn the skills to empower and develop yourself and others to deliver organisational change through your transformation of practice
• Gain the confidence to try new and creative approaches
• Opportunity to learn and share knowledge and skills with other professionals for individual and service transformation

This is for you if...

1. This programme is for professionals in practice from a range of public and private sector providers including health care practice, policing, education, third sector and local authority.
2. This programme reflects the diversity of each organisation and individual members of staff.
3. It is delivered in partnership with your organisation through negotiated work-based learning where you are supported, enabling you to advance your practice.
4. It values workplace learning, and the expertise developed in your area of practice.
5. It develops and equips you with the professional knowledge and skills needed to enhance and transform your area of practice.
6. It offers you the option for flexible study, which enables you to combine work and learning, so that you can co-ordinate your study around your work and other commitments.

Modules

Evidencing Personal and Professional Development (30 credits)

The purpose of the module is to help you reflect on your prior personal and professional experiences. You will utilise frameworks and tools to capture and record these experiences and develop a portfolio of evidence demonstrating your personal and professional development which will be assessed and valued.

Independent Learning Studies (30 credits)

The purpose of the module is for you to be guided through the learning process that enables you to assess, plan, implement and evaluate your own learning and performance. This will be achieved through work-based activities which address your needs and interests with support from your tutor and work-based mentor.

Work-Based Project (30 credits)

The purpose of this module for you to manage a work-based project to support you in developing skills for managing change and guide you in undertaking research to transform and develop your area of practice and your organisation.

Finding and Disseminating Evidence (30 credits)

This module focuses on preparing you to write for publication, in a peer-reviewed journal on the work-based learning project above. You will take a critical approach in searching for research findings from practice, use available literature and your work-based learning project.

Assessment

A range of formative and summative assessments will cater to your individual learning style. These include:

• Portfolio
• Project Proposal
• Project Report
• Reflective Essay
• Peer Presentation
• Electronic Poster Presentation

Teaching

A range of teaching strategies is used, including masterclasses, action learning, online learning, guided study, work-based learning, independent learning, and peer-supported learning. This course is offered as a blended teaching-learning approach and can be delivered virtually; however, face-to-face is highly recommended.

Programme Leader

Jo Sullivan

Jo Sullivan is the Programme Lead for the PG Diploma in Work-Based Learning for Individual and Organisational Transformation.

Employment and Stats

This programme will support you in career development and application for leadership roles within your area of practice. It will develop your project management skills and change management skills, allowing you to lead service transformation. Through the advancement of critical thinking skills, this programme will enable you to influence sectoral best practice, through publication and dissemination.

Further Study

The programme will interface with a range of other programmes offered by the school, as part of an Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) route.

• MSc Nursing
• MSc Leadership and Management for Health Care Practice
• MSc Leadership and Management in Education
• Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care

Career Links

The programme team are linked into a variety of employers. As examples of organisations who have approached us to discuss their staff developments and are keen to use the programme as part of their staff and organisational development, discussions have taken place with:

• Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
• The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
• Greater Manchester Training Hub
• Working Well Matters
• Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
• Health Education England (HEE) and the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Requirements

Applicant Profile

This course will only be offered through your organisation. In addition, you must be engaged in paid and/or unpaid work and where a written agreement with your employer for support in undertaking this module/programme is agreed. There will be identification of a Learning Guide / Mentor who can support you in your place of work.

Standard Entry Requirements

• Undergraduate degree: A minimum of a second-class honour's degree 2:2 or above.
• An equivalent academic or professional qualification from the UK or elsewhere i.e., incorporating study at least comparable to 120 credits at level 6.

English Language Requirements

International applicants will be required to show a proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.5 (with no element below 5.5) is proof of this.

Alternative Entry Requirements

Accreditation of Prior Learning

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).

Tuition Fees

The tuition fees for this programme are on a per-module basis.

Enrolment Dates

• June 2025
• September 2025
• January 2026
• June 2026
• September 2026