Program Overview

Specialist Clinical Practice CPS [Level 7]

Course Options

• Part Time (3 months)

Study Type

• Part Time

Course Length

• 3 Months

Campus

• Oxstalls, Gloucester

UCAS Code

• N/A

Course Overview

This core module will enable you to engage with a programme of learning designed to meet your individual specialist advanced clinical practice needs. You’ll work in collaboration with your clinical and academic supervisors to critically reflect on your existing knowledge, skills and expertise to identify a series of objectives, organised into an individual learning plan that addresses your learning objectives and meets the module learning outcomes. Over the course of the module you’ll engage with your clinical mentor as you work to fulfil your learning contract.

Study Style

• Assessment: 100% Portfolio: Individual: 3,000 words
• Contact Hours: Scheduled Contact Hours: 105, Independent Learning Hours: 45
• On-campus Delivery Dates:
  • 1 October 2024
  • 15 October 2024
  • 29 October 2024
  • 12 November 2024
  • 26 November 2024
• Submission Date: 21 December 2024

Transition to Full MSc

You can undertake modules individually then move to the full MSc at a later date, taking the results of previous modules with you via the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) process.

Funding Options

If you’re being sponsored to do this module, please get in touch with the Admissions Team.

Entry Requirements

• Registered UK healthcare professional
  • To study this course you must be a registered UK healthcare professional from any discipline with a track record of delivering high-quality healthcare and having a positive impact on clinical practice.
• Ideally, you will be working in a Band 7 level clinical post. However, we’ll also consider clinicians working in Band 6 posts with appropriate experience and clinical impact. You should demonstrate that you have a robust, significant and appropriately varied clinical practice experience.
• Applicants should be graduates or able to evidence a high level of CPD.

Course Modules

• Specialist Clinical Practice (AP7003)
  • This core module will enable you to engage with a programme of learning designed to meet your individual specialist advanced clinical practice needs. You will work in collaboration with your clinical and academic supervisors to critically reflect on your existing knowledge, skills and expertise to identify a series of objectives, organised into an individual learning plan that addresses your learning objectives and meets the Module Learning Outcomes. Over the course of the module you will engage with your clinical mentor as you work to fulfil your learning contract.
  • Scheduled Contact Hours: 105
  • Independent Learning Hours: 45
  • Assessment: 100% Portfolio: Individual: 3000 words

Fees and Costs

• Start Date | Location | Course Code | Fee (UK) | Total Fee | Fee (International) | Total Fee
  • May 2026 | Oxstalls, Gloucester | — | £710 | TBC
  • May 2026 | Online | — | £710 | TBC
  • Sep 2025 | Oxstalls, Gloucester | — | £710 | TBC

Teaching Staff

Academic Course Leader

• Dr Liz Berragan
  • Academic Course Leader for Specialist Clinical Practice
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