BA (Honours)/DipHE Health and Social Care Leadership and Management
Part-time
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Health and social care management
Related subjects • Diagnostic radiography • Nursing and midwifery • Operating department practice • Occupational therapy
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At a glance
Develop your health and social care management and leadership skills on this work-based course, which is designed to involve minimal university attendance. The skills and knowledge you gain improve your career potential while making a direct impact on your workplace.
Key points
• Improve your leadership and management capability.
• Develop an enquiring, analytical and creative approach to leadership.
• Complete work-based modules and assessments ensuring that learning is directly related to your workplace.
• Enhance your qualifications while improving your workplace performance.
Effective and high quality provision of health and social care depends on well-motivated, high performing staff who can work effectively individually, in teams, across organisations and through multi-agency care pathways. Leadership and management skills play a key role in being successful in these areas.
This course is for leaders and managers in health and social care who have experience of working at an operational level and who have either clinical or non-clinical backgrounds. It enables you to develop as an effective leader and manager within a workplace context.
This course stimulates an enquiring, analytical, resilient and creative approach to leadership and management, encouraging critical thinking, reflective practice and independent judgement.
The course aims to
• improve your leadership and management capability so that you can respond more effectively to meet the changing needs of your workplace
• ensure that your development is in line with business objectives and the organisational needs of health and social care providers
• enhance your qualifications while improving your workplace performance
• ensure that change is led and managed effectively within health and social care environments
All modules and assessments are work based, ensuring that your study directly relates to your leadership and management context. You develop your knowledge and skills by taking part in a range of leadership activities to produce • business plans • systems diagrams • video reports • needs analyses • project management • scenario analyses.
The academic teaching team has extensive knowledge and experience in leadership and management in health and social care and aim to ensure that you reach your career potential by combining academic study with workplace achievement.
Our Collegiate Campus has modern facilities and our teaching rooms are equipped with the latest technology. We use this technology to enhance your learning, using a virtual learning environment to help you complete modules via the internet, together with video teaching and conferencing, wikis and blogs.
The Centre for Leadership has its own learning centre specialists dedicated to our students with backgrounds in health and social care. These specialists provide bespoke support to you throughout your studies.
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Part-time – you typically attend the University for 12 Wednesdays over 17 month for each qualification stage
Starts September
If you are LBR funded, complete the LBR application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/faculties/hwb/cpd/lbr
If you are self funding, complete the Sheffield Hallam application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £9,000 a qualification stage
If you are currently employed by the NHS, Learning Beyond Registration (LBR) funding may be available. Contact your local LBR lead for more information.
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
• business plans • systems diagrams • video reports • needs analysis • project management • scenario analyses
For further information contact the Post-experience and Postgraduate Office, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB. Phone +44 (0)114 225 2373, fax +44 (0)114 225 2394, e-mail hwb-leadership@shu.ac.uk or visit www.shu.ac.uk/faculties/hwb/clhsc
Staff profiles
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