Contemporary Approaches to Integrated Care & Service Delivery - PgDip full-time

You will enhance your critical awareness of current issues within health studies and health and social care practice and develop an in-depth knowledge of a range of health and social care topics and the principles and theories which underpin them. You will achieve high levels of proficiency in the key skills relevant to your personal and professional development planning needs including team skills, problem solving, numeracy, oral and written communication skills, and information and communication technology.

You will learn to take responsibility for the extension of your learning and to exercise independent judgement in the investigation, analysis and evaluation of health care fields that you perceive as relevant to your own practice, and you will develop the confidence to apply your knowledge and reflect on experience in the independent critical analysis and evaluation of health and social care practice.

You will also learn about the biological basis of disease and therapeutics and leadership concepts including theories and styles. You will enhance your research skills and learn to develop evidence-based concepts and explanations from law, psychology, social policy and sociology. You will also gain an insight into working within the community setting.

You will study the core compulsory modules of: 1) Clinical Examination Skills, 2) Biological Basis of Disease and Therapeutics, 3) Leading and Managing People, 4) Principles of Community Practice, 5) Postgraduate Preparation for Research Design.

You will also study a further elective module. There is a wide range of modules available from which you can choose such as: Multidisciplinary End of Life Care; Safeguarding Children; Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults; Risk and Root Cause Analysis; Clinical Diagnostics and Decision Making; Contemporary Approaches to Dementia Care; Developing a Culture of Compassionate Care – to name but a few.