About the course

If you are a practising, registered healthcare professional ready to take your career to the next level, then this part-time, three-year course will give you the skills to become an advanced practitioner who can lead, innovate and improve healthcare across a wide range of settings.

This Master’s course covers all areas of your practice, and uses your current work and development needs to build on your existing skills and experience. You study key areas such as understanding advanced practice in today’s profession; exploring the opportunities of the workplace and how advanced practitioners challenge and lead change; and developing specialist expertise as an independent learner.

To be eligible for this course, you must be registered with the NMC or HCPC and working as a healthcare professional in your chosen discipline (and remain so for the duration of the course).

Why choose this course?

• Benefit from a course developed by experienced health professionals who will prepare you for your return to study and support you to operate at an advanced level
• Explore mentorship, people management, patient safety and resilience as well as clinical and theoretical practice
• Gain sound knowledge and experience in a range of areas, enabling you to progress to more senior roles and be recognised as a well-grounded and capable individual
• Develop critical thinking skills through learning how to evaluate and present evidence from a range of sources within your area of practice
• Undertake a research project that will contribute to advancing your practice