College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare...establish their career pathways. Opportunities for...

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College ofNursing, Midwifery and Healthcare We are a leading institution for professional healthcare education, working in close partnership with healthcare providers and employers to develop courses that help you become a fully qualified healthcare professional or develop in your current role.

The College has been extremely successful in providing high quality education and vocational training courses for the NHS, and independent and voluntary sectors.

We offer a wide choice of pre-registration and post-registration courses, which you can study around work and other commitments.

You will learn from highly skilled staff, many of whom conduct leading-edge research in specialist areas, ensuring

your period of study is both challenging and rewarding. Learning takes place in a wide range of settings, working with a variety of people – patients, clients and expert practitioners.

In conjunction with NHS Hospital Trusts, Out of Hospital Providers, the independent and voluntary care sectors, the College offers a wide range of excellent facilities to support teaching and learning.

By combining your academic study with a strong focus on practical skills, we will support you to become a registered healthcare professional/develop personally and professionally if you are already a qualified healthcare professional.

We look forward to welcoming you to the College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare.

A connected education:Our links with NHS Trusts provide excellent learning opportunities.

Enhanced career prospects: Our state-of-the-art simulation facilities will support your learning.

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The lecturers are highly knowledgeable, enthusiastic and friendly. All my clinical placements provided great

learning opportunitiesand the mentors were

very supportive.”Alice Texeira

Graduate

15University of West London • Postgraduate Prospectus 2018

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Award Masters

DurationUp to four years (part-time)

Start dateSeptember

MScAdvanced Practice

This innovative course has been designed for experienced health and social care practitioners who are preparing for or currently undertaking an advanced role.

Course overviewAdvanced practice is recognised as central to the delivery of health and social care, both within acute and out of hospital care settings.

The course promotes development ofthe knowledge and skills practitioners require to work effectively in these roles and provides the opportunity for valuable inter-professional learning and networking. Innovative modes of delivery are utilised (eg Microsoft Lync, Skype for Business, Facetime for webinars, individual tutorials, Xerte and Storyline).

There is some flexibility in the order in which you complete the modules, and we may be able to accept Level 7 academic credits (awarded from other UK universities), if they map to the learning outcomes of the course

You can opt for a generic award in Advanced Practice or have the focus of your advanced practice studies recognised through a badged award:

• MSc Advanced Practice (Leadership)

• MSc Advanced Practice (Midwifery)• MSc Advanced Practice

(Mental Health)• MSc Advanced Practice

(Healthcare Education)• MSc Advanced Practice

(Infection Prevention and Control)• MSc Advanced Practice

(Substance Misuse).

Modules• Role Development• Becoming an Advanced Practitioner• Research Methods• Dissertation.

You will choose the remainder of the modules. If working towards a badged award, your choice may be limited. Examples from our portfolio* include:

Optional modules• Tissue Viability: Delivering

Harm Free Care• Diabetes: Improving

Health Outcomes• Early Recognition of the

Deteriorating Patient, Critical Care and Intensive Care

• Advanced History Taking and Physical Examination with Clinical Reasoning

• Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

• Infection Prevention and Control• Leadership Strategies to

Improve the Patient Experience• Caring for Frail and Older People• Making a Difference

to Dementia Care.

* Subject to availability. Please visit our website for the full list of modules.

Entry requirements

Career options

Completing the Masters programme will give you the skills and confi dence to stand out in the graduate market. Since the introduction of the Graduate Curriculum in Nursing in 2010, a Masters degree will be the next stepping stone for career development for current cohorts of student nurses, so will be an advantage to those nurses currently looking to get ahead and establish their career pathways.

Opportunities for further study include progression to our MPhil programme, and onwards to a Professional Doctorate or PhD.

Find out more at: uwl.ac.uk/ postgraduate

See the entry requirements page for the key

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ModulesA wide range of optional modules will be available, reflecting the diversity of programmes available within the University. Please see our website for further information.

Course overviewIf you are working or planning to work in the health care or social care sector as a manager, leader, specialist or as a senior care worker then this course is ideal for you.

The course will enable you to design, lead and manage delivery of an effective healthcare and wellbeing service. It focuses on applying research, service design and quality improvement skills and theories in a healthcare setting.

The course is currently being redesigned. Please see our website for further information.

This course has been designed for practitioners working in management or leadership positions in a healthcare setting. The course promotes development of the knowledge healthcare practitioners require to provide quality healthcare services.

MSc Healthcare Management(subject to approval)

Award Masters

Duration18 months (full-time)

Start dateSeptember and January


Entry requirements

Career options

Students who have undertaken this course have pursued careers in management and leadership, health service design and development, healthcare enterprise, public health prevention and management of substance misuse services.


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MSc Public Health and Wellbeing

Award Masters

DurationTwo years (part-time)

Start dateSeptember This innovative MSc provides an excellent grounding in

public health, health promotion and wellbeing. It provides a career-relevant range of modules and assessment methods in a stimulating learning environment. It has supportive lecturers who have real-world experience of working in UK and international public health.

These final two modules are an opportunity for students to develop their judgement and creativity by shaping their own project.

A choice of two further options is also included. Options may include areas such as Global Public Health and Sexual Health.

Course overviewThe course runs part-time over two years. It is delivered in intensive one-day-a-week sessions, over two semesters, per academic year.

ModulesThe core modules are:

• Public Health Perspectives, which focuses on key debates and concepts

• Public Health Policy, which takes an in-depth look at the policies that impact on health and those that public health staff implement

• Measuring Public Health and Wellbeing, which provides a solid grounding in public health data analysis and evidence-based practice using a wide range of examples from practice

• Leadership for Public Health, which supports the development of public health workplace skills

• Research Methods and Dissertation for Public Health and Wellbeing.

Career options

Employers, including the NHS, local authorities, charities and non-government organisations (NGOs), recruit public health practitioners and specialists. Roles are wide-ranging and draw on management and leadership skills. Jobs may include, for example:

• multi-agency co-ordination work to promote sexual health commissioning and project management work to promote healthy lifestyles

• providing support and advice to patients and service users in health and social care settings

• analysing data and working to improve immunisation and screening rates

• working in community development and community needs assessment.


Entry requirements Find out more at: uwl.ac.uk/ postgraduate

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Award PgCert/PgDip/MSc

DurationUp to four years (part-time)

Start dateSeptember and January This course is delivered by the Collaboration for Leadership

in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) Northwest London, specialists in improvement science and is designed for experienced, qualified healthcare staff, working both in the UK and internationally.

PgCert/PgDip/MSc Improvement Science

Career options

The course is designed to provide you with a high level of pragmatic research capability and knowledge that is directly applicable to your professional setting and applicable in the workplace. Professionals with an independent, proactive, problem solving attitude with extensive knowledge bases are highly sought after in the workplace, and valued by employers.

Course overviewThe CLAHRC delivered course focuses on:

• Understanding care from the perspective of patients and carers through engaging patients and members of the community with the design and development of care

• Bringing research more rapidly into everyday practice, utilising rapid-cycle research, improvement methodologies and rigorous evaluation of clinical and cost effectiveness

• Adopting an industrial standard of quality in healthcare services through utilising information to drive evidence based implementation and support evidence based practice

• Increasing staff capacity to implement change and improvements across professional and organisational boundaries.

As such the course will enable you to meet the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) and Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) agendas.

ModulesThe modules will provide you with the skills, competence and underpinning knowledge to be truly effective in your role and build your capability to apply the latest improvement models and tools to your work.

They include:

• The Policy Context of Improvement

• Leading and Sustaining Improvement

• Engaging Patients and Relationship Management

• 40 credits of option modules focusing on current issues of organisational and/or professional relevance

• Implementation of Improvement Methods

• Improvement Project.



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This course has been designed for recently qualified healthcare professionals and those working in a new clinical area/specialist area of practice, wishing to enhance their clinical skills and knowledge and gain a postgraduate award, as recognitionof their continuing professional development.

PgCert/PgDip/MSc Professional Practice Award

PgCert/PgDip/MSc

DurationPgCert Two years (part-time)PgDip Three years (part-time)MSc Up to four years (part-time)

Start dateFlexible

ModulesWe have a wide range of exciting modules available for you to choose from, examples include*:

• Mentorship• Tissue Viability: Delivering

Harm Free Care• Diabetes: Improving

Health Outcomes• Early Recognition of the

Deteriorating Patient, Critical Care and Intensive Care

• Advanced History Taking and Physical Examination with Clinical Reasoning

• Independent and Supplementary Prescribing

• Range of Infection Prevention and Control modules

• Leadership Strategies to Improve the Patient Experience

• Caring for Frail and Older People• Making a Difference to Dementia Care• Nutrition and Hydration:

Delivering Harm Free Care• Range of Substance Use

and Misuse modules• Range of Mental Health modules• Early Recognition of the Acutely

Unwell Child/Young Person,History Taking and Assessment

• Range of Midwifery modules• Ophthalmic Nursing• Supporting Student Learning

and Enhancing Student Learning.

Course overviewThe flexible nature of this course means you can opt for a postgraduate certificate (PgCert), 60 academic credits, postgraduate diploma (PgDip) 120 academic credits or a Masters (MSc) degree, 180 academic credits.

The PgCert and PgDip is made up entirely of optional modules, meaning you can choose modules which are relevant to your area of clinical practice. The MSc only has two core modules (Research Methods and Dissertation). Again you choose the remainder of the modules pertinent to your area of clinical practice/those which reflect your developmental goals.

You can opt for a generic award in professional practice or have the focus of your studies recognised through a badged award in one of the following areas:

• Complex Mental Health Needs• Acute Care• Intensive/Critical Care• Frail and Older People• Out of Hospital Care• Dementia and Nutrition• Children and Young People• Midwifery• Substance Misuse• Independent and

Supplementary Prescribing (only available as a PgCert). * Choice will be limited if you choose to work

towards a specifi c badged award.


Entry requirements

Career options

This course provides practitioners with the opportunity to further enhance clinical knowledge, skills, confi dence and leadership ability, preparing you for promotion.

Find out more at: uwl.ac.uk/

cpd


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This innovative, skills focused course has been designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and competence to work collaboratively with service users with a serious mental health problem, using evidence-based interventions.

PgCert/PgDip/MSc Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis

Award PgCert/PgDip/MSc

DurationPgCert Two years (part-time)PgDip Three years (part-time)MSc Up to four years (part-time)


ModulesPgCert:• Assessment and

Case Formulation• Family Intervention • Medication Management

and Physical Wellbeing.

PgDip:The PgCert modules PLUS:• Evidence-based Psychosocial

Interventions for Psychosis

OR • Brief Interventions in

Acute Mental Healthcare

AND• Practice-based

Innovation Project.

MSc:The PgDip modules PLUS:• Research Methods• Dissertation.

Course overviewThe flexible nature of this course means you can opt for a Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert), 60 academic credits, Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) 120 academic credits or a Masters degree (MSc), 180 academic credits.

If undertaking the PgDip or MSc award, you can choose an acute or longer term focus to your studies, making it relevant to the practice area you work in.

The course is delivered by a practising and highly experienced Mental Health lecturer practitioner, ensuring clear integration of theory with contemporary practice. Clinical supervision is a core component of the course, enhancing your personal and professional development.

Career options

Practitioners completing this course will be able to demonstrate advanced clinical, organisational, communication and interpersonal skills, enhancing the client and carer experience and outcomes.




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PgCertStrategic Workforce PlanningThis course has been developed in response to the increasing demand for specific training and education of those who are involved in workforce planning. It has been specifically designed for workforce planners by workforce planners and was one of the first qualifications of its kind in the UK.

Award PgCert

DurationOne year (part-time)

Start dateFebruary

The course is underpinned by the UK-wide Workforce Planning Competence Framework and Options for Excellence: Building the Social Care Workforce of the Future.

Students who successfully complete this award can use this credit towards an MSc award such as MSc Improvement Science.

Further information on modules available is available on our website. Those choosing to take a Masters degree would have to complete a Research Methods module and Dissertation.

PgCert Modules• The Context of Strategic Planning • Workforce Planning for

Service Improvement• Leading Workforce Planning.

Course overviewWorkforce planning is recognised as one of the key areas of development within health and social care. Effective workforce planning not only benefits good patient care, but can play a key role in supporting sectors in meeting their service and productivity targets through ensuring the right people are in the right jobs at the right time.

Demands from service have highlighted the need to integrate the workforce planning function with service and finance, the focus on long-term strategic planning and to enable health and social care planners to access a shared development course to raise the profile and improve perceptions of the role of workforce planning. This course aims to provide workforce planners with skills, competence and underpinning knowledge to be truly effective in their role.

Career options

This course provides practitioners with the opportunity to further enhance their knowledge, skills, confi dence and ability to carry out workforce planning, preparing them for promotion.


Entry requirements Find out more at: uwl.ac.uk/cpd

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ModulesIn semester 1, you will study:

• Introduction to Genetics and Genomics

• Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

• Introduction to Programming or option 1.

The Introduction to Programming module is optional for students with substantial prior computing programming skills. Such students may study an alternative module from the optional modules list.

In semester 2, you will study:

• Advanced Bioinformatics and Genome Analysis

• Knowledge Management • One optional module from

the optional module list.

In semester 3, you will undertake a substantial supervised bioinformatics project.

Optional modules • Introduction to Programming • Healthcare Research Methods • Leadership and Management

Competence in Healthcare • Information Systems in healthcare • Data Management in Healthcare.

NB: Optional module availability is subject to cohort viable numbers.

Our MSc in Bioinformatics is an exciting course that develops your skills and competence to effectively analyse, interpret and use the vast amounts of biological data generated by modern high-throughput technologies such as genome sequencing, next-generation sequencing and microarray expression technology to support and improve health care and health outcomes.

Course overviewThe course provides flexible full time or part-time learning opportunities to develop your career in Bioinformatics. The MSc in Bioinformatics course is designed to expose you to the skills, strategies, use, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of genetics and genomics data in the context of ethico-legal, social impact and healthcare. It covers principles, statistics, computing, knowledge management, skills and the technical know-how for analysing genetics and genomics data, and the underlying health and associations between gene variants, disease susceptibility and drug response.

This course uniquely provides students with the practical knowledge and skills to bridge the computo-healthcare interface in the context of genomics and bioinformatics.

We welcome students and professionals from a range of academic and employment backgrounds, including biomedical sciences, nursing, midwifery, medicine, psychology, public health, pharmaceutical, forensic science.

MSc/PgCert/PgDipBioinformatics Award

MSc/PgCert/PgDip

DurationOne year (part-time)Two years (part-time)

Start dateJanuary and September

Career options

Our MSc Bioinformatics is aligned with workforce development needs in industry, healthcare, public research establishments and university research. Therefore our students follow careers in:

• Clinical Bioinformatics• Pharmaceutical and

Biotech companies• Personalised Medicine

and Wellbeing• Agricultural science

and research• Animal research institutes• Academic research institutes• Food industry • Public Institutions• IT companies• Public Health.


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Career options

Clinical academic careers, Senior NHS management positions, Non-medical Consultant posts.

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)/Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Our MPhil/PhD programme provides you as an experienced healthcare practitioner/professionals, with high quality research training enabling you to design, manage and complete an applied research project that extends knowledge (MPhil) or makes an original contribution (PhD) to your field.

You will usually enrol for a MPhil with the option to transfer to the PhD at an appropriate stage of your research. In some circumstances it is possible to enrol directly as a PhD student.

MPhil/PhD opportunities are available in the following research areas:

• Infection Prevention and Control• Mental Health Practice• Nursing Practice• Midwifery Practice• Healthcare Epidemiology

and Infection• Healthcare Management• Healthcare Education.

For further information please contact Professor Heather Loveday ([email protected]).

Professional DoctorateOur professional doctorates have been specifically designed for healthcare practitioners:

• Professional Doctorate in Nursing (DNurs)

• Professional Doctorate in Midwifery (DMid)

• Professional Doctorate in Health Science (DHSc)

• Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA).

Learning has been designed to be directly applicable to your workplace. The course is designed to support you to reflect at an advanced level on your profession, your practice and enable you to develop new and original ways in which you can contribute to the professional knowledge base in your area of practice.

For further information please contact Professor Heather Loveday ([email protected]) and Rowan Myron, Associate Professor Healthcare Management ([email protected]).

Award MPhil and PhD

DurationThree to fi ve years

Start dateSeptember, January, May

The University has an outstanding national and international reputation with regards to practice-based research. Our doctoral (Level 8) courses have a strong focus on improving health outcomes and the experiences of patients and their carers through the transformation of care and service delivery.

MPhil and PhD Doctorate programme


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This course has been designed for qualified nurses who have completed a pre-registration PgDip in Nursing at the University of West London and wish to ‘top-up’ their award to a Masters degree.

MScNursing (Top-up) Award

Masters

DurationOne to two years (part-time)


Modules• Research Methods (Level 7)• Dissertation.

Course overviewAs you have completed your postgraduate award and are now a qualified nurse you have the opportunity to ‘fast-track’ to a complete Masters award.

To achieve this you will complete a Research Methods module and then undertake either a primary piece of research, pertinent to your area of practice or undertake a systematic literature review as part of the dissertation module.

Career options

Practitioners with an independent, proactive, problem solving attitude (enhanced through undertaking the Research Methods and Dissertation modules), are highly sought after in the workplace, and valued by employers.




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PgDip Nursing (Adult)

This course has been designed for graduates (from any degree subject background) who would like to become a nurse. The course will prepare students to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a registered Adult Nurse.

Award Postgraduate Diploma

DurationNormally two years (full-time) following Accreditation of Prior Learning

Start dateSeptember

Career options

On completion of this course graduates will be skilled, autonomous practitioners able to:

• practice as a registered adult nurse

• deliver high quality, compassionate, evidenced based patient centred care in a range of health care settings

• offer enhanced leadership, management and research skills to infl uence practice and initiate change.


Entry requirements

Modules• Developing Foundations

of Nursing Care• Promoting Health and Wellness• Developing Foundations

of Nursing Practice• Biomedical Science

Applied to Nursing• Enhancing Nursing Practice

through Effective Decision Making• Enhancing Innovation in Nursing• Meeting Complex Health

and Social Care Needs.

Work experience requiredRelevant work/voluntary experience in a health or social care environment, ideally within the field of chosen practice is desirable.

InterviewApplicants who meet the entry criteria will be invited to a values based recruitment event which includes; a maths and English test, group discussion and individual interview (with practice staff, the University and service users).Applicants are also required to have a satisfactory occupational health check and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and two satisfactory references.

Course overviewThe aim of this course is to prepare a registered nurse who is able to offer a high level of care, enhanced leadership, management, inter-professional and research skills to influence practice and initiate change. The course recognises that as a graduate you will bring with you a range of attributes, these include not only expertise in your subject, but also the ability to manage your own learning, including making use of sources of evidence to make judgements, which is essential to 21st Century nursing.

Upon successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma there will be an option available to ‘top-up’ to a Masters Degree post-qualification.

Find out more at:uwl.ac.uk/prereg

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Career options

You will have acquired the NMC competencies to practice as a registered Mental Health Nurse.

In addition you will be able to:• use initiative and

take responsibility• solve problems in creative

and innovative ways• make decisions in

challenging situations• deliver compassionate,

person centred and evidenced-based care using a recovery-focused approach.

Award Postgraduate Diploma

DurationNormally two years (full-time) following Accreditation of Prior Learning

Start dateSeptember

Modules• Developing Foundations

of Nursing Care• Promoting Health and Wellness• Developing Foundations

of Nursing Practice• Biomedical Science

Applied to Nursing• Enhancing Mental

Health Nursing Practice through Effective Decision Making

• Enhancing Innovation in Nursing• Meeting complex Mental

Health and Social Care Needs.

Work experience requiredRelevant work/voluntary experience in a health or social care environment, ideally within the field of chosen practice is desirable.

InterviewApplicants who meet the entry criteria will be invited to a values based recruitment event which includes; a maths and English test, group discussion and individual interview (with staff from practice, the University and service users). Applicants are also required to have a satisfactory occupational health check and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and two satisfactory references.

This course has been designed for graduates (from any degree background) who would like to become a nurse. The course will prepare you to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a registered Mental Health Nurse.

Course overviewThe aim of this course is to prepare a registered nurse who is able to offer a high level of care, enhanced leadership, management, inter- professional and research skills to influence practice and initiate change. The course recognises that as a graduate you will bring with you a range of attributes. These include not only expertise in your subject, but also the ability to manage your own learning, including making use of sources of evidence to make judgements, which is essential to 21st century nursing.

Upon successful completion of the postgraduate diploma there is an option available to ‘top-up’ to a Masters degree post-qualification.

PgDipNursing (Mental Health)


Entry requirements Find out more at:uwl.ac.uk/prereg


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