Health & Social Care

Leadership and service-improvement tools and techniques are key elements in a modern health and social care community. This course uses real-life opportunities to develop these skills and have an impact on service delivery. It is open to a wide range of people working in any aspect of health and social care who wish to lead and develop their service.

Course aims

You'll take an integrated approach to leadership and service improvement by developing advanced personal effectiveness and leading a service-improvement project.

What you study

You explore current drivers of modernisation and service improvement to develop your political awareness and proactive leadership. From the very start you'll work on real-life service-improvement projects so you can apply what you learn to your area of practice. You undertake 360-degree diagnostic appraisal and personal action planning to develop your effectiveness. Action learning will be used to facilitate your leadership of a real service-improvement project relevant to your practice role and the needs of your organisation.

Career opportunities

Enhancement of your leadership and service-improvement skills will enable you to develop further your role effectiveness and professional/career goals.

Entry requirements

Normally applicants should have an honours degree or equivalent in a health or social care or leadership/management-related subject. Alternatively, applicants should be able to demonstrate by qualification and/or experience their ability to undertake and complete the course.

For additional information please see the undergraduate and postgraduate entry requirements in our admissions section

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