Program Overview
The Safeguarding in Health short course from the University of Birmingham equips health professionals with advanced safeguarding expertise, covering national policies, theories, case analysis, and effective communication skills. Offered as a stand-alone course or microcredential, it empowers participants with the knowledge and practical skills to enhance child and adult safeguarding practices in healthcare settings.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Safeguarding in Health short course is a postgraduate microcredential offered by the Institute of Clinical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. It aims to set the benchmark for health safeguarding provision in Birmingham, Solihull, and beyond. The program is designed for health professionals with a substantive safeguarding role.
Objectives:
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of relevant national and international policies relating to safeguarding in health.
- Critically evaluate theories and models underpinning child and adult safeguarding while demonstrating an in-depth understanding of the processes required to ensure application of this knowledge into practice.
- Interpret and critically analyze adverse events and serious or significant case reviews in practice, using appropriate theoretical frameworks, to identify learning and inform future practice.
- Demonstrate and reflect upon effective safeguarding communication skills in complex and challenging situations.
Program Description:
The program offers an innovative blend of strategic safeguarding, contemporary safeguarding evidence and trends, and active application to practice. New and developing safeguarding professionals will build on and acquire the skills, knowledge, and competency to deliver safe and thoughtful child and adult safeguarding practice. This will include challenging current practice, interrogating health safeguarding systems, team building, networking, and managing relationships. Participants will engage with practical instances of safeguarding in health in the real world, carry out investigative work around quality improvement, and review how policy applies to local practice.
Other:
- The microcredential will take place over seven weeks: full-time over an intensive five days, with an assessment to be submitted within the following six weeks.
- The microcredential can be taken as a stand-alone assessed or non-assessed course.
- Applications must be received a minimum of one month before the start date of the module.
- The course is led by Julie Taylor (Professor of Child Protection and Director of Research, School of Nursing and Midwifery) and Jane Powell (Director of Safeguarding at BWC).