Leadership and Management for Healthcare Practice

Entry requirements

This practice-related, master's course is aimed at all healthcare professionals including nurses, midwives, doctors, physiotherapists, radiographers and healthcare scientists who want to develop the knowledge, skills and qualities to be an effective healthcare leader.

Typically, an applicant is normally a qualified healthcare professional currently working in middle management or wanting to move up to middle/senior management within or outside of the current organisation. Some applicants are already managers and want the formal qualification to support the role they are already doing.

A Bachelor’s degree with honours from a UK university or an equivalent academic or professional qualification (if applicable) from the UK or elsewhere i.e. incorporating study at least comparable to 120 credits at honours level as so deemed by the Board of College or a Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate from a UK university.

The University requires that applicants must have satisfactory references related to the intended vocational course regarding their ability to complete the course and appropriate position within their organisation.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Effective leadership and management do not happen by chance. This practice-related course will help you develop the knowledge, skills and qualities to be an effective healthcare leader. This leadership and management course is designed to give you the confidence to try new and creative approaches to the workplace, deal with complex leadership situations and provide effective patient and service outcomes.

The course is aimed at all healthcare professionals including nurses, midwives, doctors, physiotherapists, radiographers and healthcare scientists who want to develop the knowledge, skills and qualities to be an effective healthcare leader.

If you want to implement quality improvements that are locally led, patient-centred and clinically driven, this master's course will help you:

• Transform patient and service outcomes at a local level.
• Understand your organisation and become an effective leader.
• Explore the challenges and opportunities to influence policy that impacts on patient and service outcomes.
• Understand yourself as a leader and enhance your knowledge, skills and qualities.
• Develop the skills to manage change in complex and changing healthcare settings.
• Develop project management skills.
• Implement a change management project.

Information for international students

English language requirements

If you are an international student and not from a majority English-speaking country, you will need IELTS 6.0 with no element below 5.5.