PG Cert Health and Social Care Education

Nurses and Midwives who intend to take on the role of teacher must fulfil the following criteria: 

1. Be registered in the same part or subpart of the NMC register as the students they support.
2. Have completed at least three years post-registration experience, gained additional professional knowledge and skills, and have experience in an area where students are gaining practice experience relevant to their registration.
3. Have extended their professional knowledge, relevant to their field of practice, to at least first degree level.
4. Be working as a lecturer in a higher education setting or demonstrate relevant and appropriate role responsibilities in practice, working with students undertaking recordable programmes of study.
5. Have the support of their line manager in order to achieve 360 hours of logged teaching activity.

Students from other professional health and social care backgrounds must fulfil the entry criteria for teaching determined by their professional body, and must also be able to fulfil criteria three to five above.

UK/EU: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/study_here/fees_and_finance/uk-eu-tuition-fees.php
International: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/study_here/fees_and_finance/international_tuition_fees.php

The course is designed to develop the practitioner in their role as a teacher, able to support learning of health and social care practitioners on courses approved by professional bodies, in both academic and practice settings. On successful completion of the programme students will be able to have the teacher qualification recorded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and will be able to register with the Higher Education Academy (pending accreditation).

EH4100 Introduction to  Learning and Teaching in HE
EH4101 Teaching, Learning and Assessment (This follows EH4100)
MW4102 Preparation of Teachers: Health and Social Care Professionals
( NMC Portfolio development continuing throughout the course)