| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-16 | - |
| 2025-06-02 | - |
Program Overview
This short course provides post-registration development for cervical screeners, meeting specialist skills requirements. The program includes lectures, work-based learning, and assessments to ensure proficiency in safe cervical sampling practices. It is based on guidance from the National Health Cervical Screening Programme, SQAS, and the Royal College of Nursing.
Program Outline
Assessment:
- Submission of workbooks
- Completion of a practice assessment document
Teaching:
- Lectures
- Work-based learning
- Virtual learning environment
- Clinicians who are qualified cervical screeners
- Experienced external mentors
Careers:
- Expanding career path
- Meeting specialist skills and post-registration development requirements
Other:
- This course is based upon the guidance of the National Health Cervical Screening Programme.
- This specialist skills and post-registration development short course reflects the guidelines for safe cervical sampling practice provided by the National Health Cervical Screening Programme, the Safety and Quality Assessment for Sustainability (SQAS), and the Royal College of Nursing.
This course may be eligible for funding from NHS England. You must have your employer's support in order to access a funded place. Employers can draw on CPD funding to fund this course. Detailed guidance on such funding arrangements is available in their funding guide. If you are not eligible for funding, the tuition fee to study this course in 2024/25 entry is £691.35. Tuition fees will cover the cost of your study at the University as well as charges for registration, tuition, supervision and examinations. Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years of study may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X).
Entry Requirements:
- You must be a qualified Nurse, Midwife, Nursing Associate, Physicians Associate or a Medical Doctor currently registered to practice in the UK.
- Have access to an in-house support health professional who meets the criteria set out by the National Cervical Screening Training Guidance.
- Be able to take samples under the supervision of the in-house support in an environment that meets the criteria set out by the National Cervical Screening Training Guidance.
- Have access to women who are undergoing cervical screening.
