MSc / PGDip Advanced Clinical Practitioner

This programme is suitable for healthcare professionals working in a range of settings, including hospital, community, primary and mental health care and emergency care settings.

The Advanced Practice programme at the University of Bradford offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced mentor.

It develops skills designed to meet the challenges of delivering and advancing quality healthcare within a global context.

Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes as well as demonstrate impact and value. There is a focus on patient safety, risk assessment and risk management within a clinical governance context.

The programme is intended to:

• Provide a flexible educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs, as well as the organisational needs of employers
• Provide opportunities for inter-professional teaching and learning to share the knowledge, skills and experience common to a range of different health and social care disciplines
• Provide a framework within which the curriculum, where required, meets the regulatory needs of professional bodies such as the NMC, GPhC and HCPC and recognised National benchmarks
• Stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning
• Develop your clinical skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level, applicable to your own field of practice
• Further develop your cognitive and practical skills to undertake data synthesis, complex problem solving and risk assessment
• Prepare you to become an autonomous practitioner, to work in advanced and specialist roles with high levels of accountability
• Develop you as a practitioner who will innovate, promote evidence informed practice and improve service user outcomes
• Develop you as a leader with skills and confidence, to act as a role model, supporting the professional development of colleagues and the work of your organisation
• Develop you as a critically reflective, competent leader who will manage service development towards effective, sustainable, inclusive, fair and ethically sensitive service provision