Advanced Clinical Practice Apprenticeship

This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.

Overview

This MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice (Apprenticeship) is suitable for registered healthcare professionals appointed as Advanced Clinical Practitioner Apprentices working in a range of settings including hospital, community, primary care, mental health and emergency care.

The programme offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced mentor.

The programme prepares Apprentice Advanced Clinical Practitioners in readiness to meet the apprenticeship End Point Assessment (EPA) and thereby complete the award.

Advanced Clinical Practitioners will develop expert clinical skills with research, education and clinical leadership within their scope of practice. They will work innovatively on a one-to-one basis with individuals as well as part of a wider team. They will work as part of the wider health and social care team and across traditional professional boundaries in health and social care.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements are based on the degree apprenticeship standard advanced clinical practitioner level set out by the Institute for Apprenticeships.

Candidates must hold:

A first degree
Current registration with one of the statutory regulators of health and care professions
GCSE English and Maths or equivalent

Apprentices without level 2 English and Maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the End Point Assessment (EPA).

Learning and assessment

Learning activities

Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes as well as demonstrate impact and value. There is a focus on patient safety, risk assessment and risk management within a clinical governance context.

Assessment

Learning will be applied and assessed in practice as well as by theoretical assessment.

Facilities

The purpose-built Faculty of Health Studies building represents a £10 million investment in health at Bradford.

Our state of the art facilities provide learning environments and simulation equipment that mirrors those found in the NHS.

They are designed to provide the closest possible ‘real-life’ practical experience, under the guidance and supervision of our academic team of experienced healthcare professionals, allowing students to develop their clinical skills ahead of practice placements and employment in the health sector.

Fees, finance and scholarships

Tuition fee

Apprentices do not pay course fees. An Apprentice is employed by an organisation into an Apprenticeship job role this entitles them to earn as they learn.

By studying a Degree Apprenticeship, Apprentices can obtain a degree at no cost to them as individuals.

By employing Apprentices, organisations can make the most of their Apprenticeship levy fees and train staff in a cost effective way.

There are currently two funding models:

Fully funded:

If the annual pay bill of your organisation exceeds £3m you can pay for your apprenticeships training through your levy account.

If you have exceeded your levy contribution, you can fund apprenticeship training through the co-funded model. To better understand how this will work please make contact with us.

Co – funded:

If you are a non-levy paying organisation or you are a levy organisation who has exceeded your levy contribution, the government will financially co-fund your apprenticeship training. The government will contribute 90% of the costs. As the employer, you will contribute 10%.

For example:

Government contribution £24,300
Employer contribution £2,700
Apprentice contribution £0

Career support

The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the Careers website.

Discussing options with specialist advisers helps to clarify plans through exploring options and refining skills of job-hunting. In most of our programmes there is direct input by Career Development Advisers into the curriculum or through specially arranged workshops.

Career prospects

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner you will:

Have a high level of autonomy and freedom to make decisions about how people should be cared for a treated and act in complex and unpredictable situations
Use person-centred approaches to taking an individual’s detailed history and examine body systems to help you make a diagnosis
Select, undertake or request a range of appropriate clinical tests and assessments to help you make a diagnosis
Initiate and evaluate a range of interventions, which may include for example prescribing of medicines, therapies and care
Apply a skillset that may have traditionally been the remit of other disciplines so that you can enhance the care and experience of individuals
Analyse, interpret and act on the results of clinical tests and assessments and formulate a plan of care, which may include admission to a care setting such as a hospital, referral to settings for another opinion or discharge from services
Drive service improvements, educate others and provide consultancy services within your scope of practice
Undertake research activities to develop new knowledge and undertake audit to evaluate and further develop your area of expertise to improve care and services for the people you are treating

(Source: Institute for Apprenticeships)

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This is the current course information. Modules and course details may change, subject to the University's programme approval, monitoring and review procedures. The University reserves the right to alter or withdraw courses, services and facilities as described on our website without notice and to amend Ordinances, Regulations, fees and charges at any time. Students should enquire as to the up-to-date position when applying for their course of study.