Program Overview

Leadership in Advanced Clinical Practice Level 7

Overview

This 20-credit, Level 7 module will enable you to understand, use, and apply leadership theories to a range of advanced clinical practice roles to inform, lead, manage, and develop healthcare services. You'll develop leadership competency and capabilities and demonstrate these in the context of your developing advanced practice roles.

You'll acquire skills to articulate the advanced clinical practice leadership role to policymakers, decision‐makers, other healthcare professionals, and the public, enhancing understanding of the advanced practice role and optimising advanced clinical practice leadership capabilities in dynamic and unpredictable settings.

You'll also develop leadership capability to improve service and clinical practice working on an individual, systems, and organisational level and identify service needs, improvements, challenges, and opportunities applying real-life problem-solving skills.

Why us?

• The course is directly mapped against the Multi-Professional Framework (NHSE) for Advanced Clinical Practice

Course structure

This course runs from February to November 2025. The number of face-to-face taught hours for the course is 16, with 20 directed study hours and 164 independent study hours.

Face-to-face teaching is delivered at City Campus every other week, from February to July, with a written assessment due in November.

Assessment takes the form of a written assignment submitted online, assessing all course learning outcomes.

Course topics

You will gain knowledge and skills in the following, in line with the Leadership pillar of Advanced Clinical Practice:

• Theories of management and leadership and their application in healthcare
• Change management models and their application to healthcare
• Leadership framework history and theory
• Leadership theories in healthcare provider service transformation, quality improvement, and continual service development
• Theories of emotional intelligence and the context of effective leadership

Facilities

The course is predominantly taught in a classroom environment in Fleming Building in The John Dawson Sciences Complex.

Entry requirements

To be eligible for this course, you must be a registered healthcare professional and working in a clinical, leadership, or managerial role at an advanced level of practice.

Fees and finance

The fee for this course is £840.

The employer usually meets these costs – we advise you to speak to your workforce development lead before applying.

We also accept self-funded applicants and encourage anyone wishing to explore their options to contact.

Career ready

This module can also be studied on our MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner (apprenticeship). For further information on either of these courses, contact.

Related courses

• Advanced Clinical Management of Chronic Disease
• Advanced Clinical Management Skills
• Advanced Paediatric Clinical Management Skills