Entrants will be experienced practitioners and currently working in health, social care or education settings. You will usually be expected to have a first degree or be able to demonstrate ability to study at post degree level through previous study or CPD at level 6 or 7.
As this is a progression programme, you will be expected to have:
Ielts 6.5 (with minimum 6.0 in all components)
These negotiated professional practice work-based learning programmes are purposely flexible and are designed to be responsive to the changing work force development needs of the health, social care and education sectors and to the professional development needs of individual practitioners.
This course is delivered entirely online.
Why study MA/MSc/PGCert Advanced Professional Practice (Negotiated Specialism) at Middlesex University?
This is a flexible, work based route to gaining a postgraduate qualification in a particular area of professional practice, that can be customised to meet your needs and those of your workplace. It is ideal for those who have completed previous accredited activity/qualifications/CPD as well as for those who have significant prior experience of work in the health, social care and education sectors.
You will be supported to reflect and build upon your prior experience and experiential learning to develop advanced situated knowledge based around your workplace context. You will develop your advanced practitioner inquiry, leadership and project skills to develop your own practice and practice in your organisation. You will also be able to design and lead a work based project that has the potential to transform your own practice and that of others.
Course highlights
You can negotiate your own programme and specialist award title
It is not always necessary to attend the campus as workshops are repeated online
You will be supported to undertake a real practice improvement project in your work place
You will gain peer support through a community of learning as well as 1:1 academic supervision
You will develop your confidence in presentation and dissemination through group seminar presentations as well as written reports.
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MA/MSc modules
All modules are delivered through online distance learning.
Modules
Advanced Review of Learning (10 credits)
Advanced Personal and Professional Development (10 credits)
Advanced Practitioner Enquiry (30 credits) - Compulsory
Advanced Work Based Project (60 credits) - Compulsory
As this programme gives you the skills and experience you need to apply directly into your current service or practice, the range of projects can vary. Below are just some examples of previous student projects:
Improving compliance to clinical guidelines (2016)
Developing strategies to improve workforce retention across North London Clinical commissioning groups (2016-19)
Developing a Direct Referral pathway into the Camden Rapid Response Team (2018)
Production of a toolkit for disseminating learning from Mental Health homicides for NHS England (2017)
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
