Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care Postgraduate Certificate

Develop new managerial and leadership skills to enhance your career and improve your practice in health and social care. You’ll become a skilled decision-maker and problem-solver, able to lead quality and service improvements.

This course has 3 intakes per year: September, January and May.

Increasingly, practitioners are being called upon to lead effective change, implementing key leadership and management skills to improve both clinical and patient delivery within their health and social care organisation.

This programme will equip you with an advanced understanding in applying effective leadership and management theories to your own work setting that’s equally effective and coherent alongside today’s evolving health and social care agenda.

Ideal for health and social care professionals

This Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care will enable you to practice functional and theoretical key managerial skills that are dynamic, forward thinking and practical, allowing you to become strategically involved in today’s rapidly expanding health and social care sector.

The course will develop your skills and knowledge of leadership and management styles whilst also considering the impact leadership and management has on inter-professional issues, policy and change within your practice.

Through studying this course online you will be able to implement new skills into your role as you learn, consolidating specific techniques and expertise that will help you to lead quality and service improvements within your health and social care practice. This course will also enable you to develop a greater understanding of your own leadership styles through critical analysis and a defined set of leadership theories.

What do you study?

Students will study three modules over the duration of one year, studying one module per trimester. In studying this Postgraduate Certificate you will achieve an advanced understanding of leadership and management styles and theoretical concepts that can be applied within a health and social care environment.

You will learn the core aspects of leadership and management in health and social care through studying the following three modules:

• Advanced Integrative Practice
• Leadership in Health and Social Care
• Management for an Integrative Health and Social Care Workforce

Incorporate Integrative Care into your role

This course can be counted towards our Integrative Health and Social Care MSc course which allows you to choose modules on topics that are most relevant to your career or personal interests.

Our full Masters course will further your knowledge on effective integrative healthcare, inter-agency working, policy development, and strategic development to a wide range of clients, families and communities around the world.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

As a health and social care professional, we know that CPD is a vital part of your practice. Although undertaking CPD for your learning and reflective practice is a requirement of maintaining your professional practice, it is also an opportunity to improve the quality of your care. This course offers you the opportunity to develop industry specific, transferable skills while contributing towards your continuous training and CPD.

Interactive and practical learning

This online learning degree is specifically designed by our expert online tutors and contains plenty of opportunities to interact with tutors and other students through online discussion forums, virtual class room sessions and more traditional forms of communication such as email and Skype.

Supported learning

In addition to our academic teams, you’ll be appointed a dedicated online learner advisor who will support you on any non-academic issues throughout your course.

You’ll also benefit from many other university support services such as student wellbeing, eLibrary and resource centre, IT support and careers and employment service.

Ideal for health and social care professionals who are looking to lead change in the provision and delivery of their health and social care setting, this course acknowledges the needs of those in current or developmental managerial roles who are seeking to develop new managerial and leadership skills to enhance their career and improve their practice. Whether you are taking the next step in your career or have a general interest in this area of study, this course will give you the ability to make a real difference in people’s lives.

You will normally need the following:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in an appropriate subject, plus
• Work experience in an appropriate subject area following on from your bachelor’s level qualification, plus
• Current employment in an arena which will enable the achievement of the individual module learning outcomes, eg voluntary, public, private, community, acute health and social care arenas.

If you have an International qualification, it will need to be mapped to the UK equivalent registration to ensure that you are entering the programme with at least 120 academic credits at level 6.

This course will allow you to develop and enhance your career, as well as help you to improve the care of your patients, clients or service users.

You can take this course to stand out from other health professionals, building on your skills and knowledge that can be implemented into your practice. This course will also count towards your CPD, enabling progressive improvement in your role.