Course overview
In modern healthcare systems, leaders need to be able to influence and support a multicultural workforce and to lead innovations and improvements within their area of practice. As a healthcare leader and manager you need skills in flexibility, adaptability, critical thinking, creativity and confidence to work within complex, interconnected and global influenced healthcare environments.
You develop these skills, knowledge and behaviours required to embrace a global mindset and to lead and manage safe, high-quality and effective healthcare.
This course is not available to international applicants who require a visa under the UKVI Sponsored Student status.
Supporting information for applicants
Course details
Course structure
Core modules
Advanced Personal Effectiveness
You evaluate your personal effectiveness, leadership and management capabilities and develop an action plan to meet your learning needs.
Leadership, Culture and Context
This module explores how the organisational culture impacts on the leadership style and effectiveness of clinical areas. You consider how the context of where you work impacts on the safety of patients
Leading and Managing Improvement
You consider the functional and technical side of change management and develop your knowledge and understanding of how to effectively identify, plan, lead and manage an improvement project. You also develop your willingness to think flexibly, work collaboratively and seek creative, innovative and practical solutions when leading or managing change.
This final module offers a choice between a systematic review or a place-based project. You may choose to implement the project that you identified within the Leading and Managing Improvement module. You are allocated a supervisor in the semester before starting your major project, with the opportunity to discuss your needs and preferences for the major project.
Managing the Human Dimension of Change
You examine the soft skills side of managing change – the impact of change on people and approaches and behaviours that engage with others in improvement activities. These two modules are taught concurrently as they reflect the two complementary sides of change management.
Positive Organisational Behaviours
You consider how you work with others at an individual level and the processes, approaches and structures that exist within organisations to enable organisational effectiveness.
This module considers the policies, frameworks and procedures that enable organisational efficiency – the management aspect of organisations to enable organisational stability, safety and governance. This could be considered to be the hard organisational processes, whilst the Positive Organisational Behaviours module can be considered the soft organisational processes.
Modules offered may vary.
How you learn
Two of the modules during the course (The Well Led Organisation and Leadership: Context and Culture) are delivered through online distance learning with recorded lecturers and collaborative online learning activities. You enhance your digital skills through engagement with online learning activities, communities of practice, peer support networks and through a professional online presence.
The course uses action learning and facilitated coaching conversations to develop your skills in presenting ideas, supportive critical questioning and facilitating reflective and solution-focused practice. You develop a professional portfolio which evidences your leadership and management knowledge, experiences and competencies.
Independent and self-directed learning is a feature of master level courses. Your Major Project is a self-managed piece of work with support through one-to-one supervision sessions. Throughout the course you have opportunities to share your experiences and perspectives of working within healthcare environments and consider the application of concepts to practice.
How you are assessed
The course uses a range of formative and summative assessment approaches which include a reflective essay, case study analysis, presentations, oral examinations, management reports and a major project. The assessment strategy assesses your subject-specific knowledge, cognitive and intellectual skills and transferable skills applicable to the workplace. All of your assignments are submitted electronically.
Entry requirements
You must normally have an honours degree (2.2 classification or above) in a health-related subject or in leadership or management.
In line with Teesside University’s language requirements, you will need to satisfy the English language requirements if English is not your first language – you need a minimum overall score of IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
This course is not available to international applicants who require a visa under the UKVI Sponsored Student status.
If you have other qualifications and experience, you may be able to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning if you can evidence your ability to study at master’s level. In this situation you would be invited to discuss your experience and abilities with the course leader.
For general information please see our overview of entry requirements
Employability
Career opportunities
This course enables you to develop core transferable skills, knowledge and behaviours required to effectively lead and manage within healthcare organisations.
Work placement
You have opportunities to develop your employability skills through Teesside University’s volunteering scheme.