Program Overview

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Occupational Health Nursing) PGDip

Course Summary

This innovative Post Graduate Diploma is delivered live online (Distance Learning), providing practical support to qualified nurses to deliver advanced practice in a community setting, and undertaking quality improvement or service evaluations. On completion of this course, you will have met the NMC requirements of a SCPHN Occupational Health Nurse and will feel confident in your ability to manage complex cases, deliver advanced practice interventions, deliver quality improvement and evaluate changes made.

Course Contents

• MODULES
  • Contemporary Public Health and Wellbeing across the lifespan (20 Credits)
  • Innovative Leadership and Service Improvement in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (20 credits)
  • Advancing SCPHN Practice – Occupational Health Nursing (20 Credits)
  • Autonomous SCPH Practice – Occupational Health Nursing (20 Credits)
  • Advanced Therapeutic Practices and Risk Management in SCPHN Occupational Health (20 credits)
  • Advancing Community Practice through Research, Audit and Quality Improvement (20 credits)

How You'll Learn

• This course offers a variety of teaching methods
• There are a range of assessment methods on the course
• This course is designed around online learning
• Learn from experiences of staff delivering the course

The programme will be delivered live online (Distance Learning), making it accessible to individuals across England and Wales, who may otherwise struggle to access the opportunity to further their careers in Occupational Health Nursing.

You will meet with staff, online, one day/week during the taught element of the programme and use the advantages of technology to create a learning community, whereby you can learn from each other and the different practices and contexts of Occupational Health Nursing, as well as the theoretical understanding and experiences of the staff delivering the programme.

Teaching approaches will include exploration of case studies, development of understanding and support for studying at Level 7. The assessments draw on a range of methods, which reflect the application of theory into practice.

Entry Requirements

• Home Students
  • Registered Nurse or Midwife with the NMC and a degree or recent completion of a level 7 module.

Where You'll Study

• Wheeler, Chester

Fees and Funding

• Home Students
  • £3,585 per year (2025/26)
• Additional Costs
  • Books, printing, photocopying, educational stationery and related materials, specialist clothing, travel to placements, optional field trips and software.

Your Future Career

• Careers service
  • The University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service which provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences; through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice and guidance.
  • Careers and Employability aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.