Program Overview

PgD - Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship

Overview

This course is subject to validation.

Enhanced Clinical Practitioners are qualified health and social care professionals who are working at an enhanced level of practice with specific knowledge and skills in a field of expertise. They manage a discrete aspect of a patient’s care within their current level of practice, which will be particular to a specific context, be it a client group, a skill set or an organisational context. Enhanced Clinical Practitioners work as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team across a wide range of settings, including hospitals, community clinics, individual’s homes and in dental and general practices.

Course Structure

What you will learn

The apprenticeship is designed so that you will progressively acquire subject knowledge and skills, gradually advancing towards more independent learning in the final year, whilst developing a reflective approach to personal progress.

Year one

This course is 18 months long. In the first 12 months, you will develop your assessment skills, patient approaches and leadership skills whilst undertaking development within your practice also.

• Physical Assessment and Consultation in Enhanced Practice
• Complex Patient Care
• Leadership in Enhanced Practice
• Enhanced Clinical Practice: Workplace Learning

Year two

In the second year, you will develop skills in the research arm on enhanced clinical practice through completion of your workplace learning and undertaking a quality improvement project, in order to tie all learning together to put forward to your end-point assessment.

• Developing Practice
• End-Point Assessment Gateway

Teaching & Assessment

How you will learn

Learning takes place both synchronously and asynchronously in the online platforms at the University and in the workplace and uses real work-based activities to inform and evidence that learning has taken place.

How you will be assessed

The assessment methods used throughout the programme are:

• Written Assignments
• Oral Assessment/Presentation
• Report
• Project Work
• Portfolio
• Feedback

Entry Requirements

• Minimum of Level 2 qualification in maths and English.
• A first degree 2:2 or equivalent.

Selection Criteria

• Be in employment, in a role that allows them to develop the competencies in the apprenticeship standard.
• Be paid at least the legal minimum wage.
• Have a contract of employment covering the full duration of the apprenticeship from start to planned EPA date.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council with no restrictions on their practice.
• Have a written and signed agreement for the apprenticeship with their employer.
• At least three years post-registration experience, currently working in a relevant clinical area with access to a suitable coordinating education supervisor/work-based mentor.

Fees & Funding

Tuition Fees

Fees are paid for via the apprenticeship levy - UK.

Additional Costs

Not Applicable.