**Subject to Review and Approval**
The Masters Health and Social Practice programme is suitable for
practitioners working in health or social fields to further develop and enhance
existing knowledge, skills, understanding, values, behaviours and attitudes
within their professional area of practice. The programme will encourage you to build upon previous clinical,
educational, or leadership knowledge and experience, and academic learning in
relation to key ideas such as the acquisition and uncertainty of knowledge, its
ambiguity and limitations, and critical reflective thinking. On
successful completion of the programme you will be able to:
- Critically synthesise theoretical perspectives and disseminate the evidence base for contemporary health and social practice
- Critically apply reflective theory to your own and others practice
- Evaluate and explore expertise and act autonomously within your discipline of health and social practice
- Manage risk assessment to deal with complex situations systematically and creatively within health and social practice
- Develop and utilise a flexible approach to your practice arena and contextualised within local and national policy and guidelines
- Demonstrate self-direction and autonomous planning for the development of lifelong learning
- Critically evaluate health and social practice provision to work effectively as part of the wider team utilising own and others leadership roles
If you want to advance your knowledge,
understanding and skills in the areas of health and social practice through
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) or as part of Continuous Workforce
Development (CWD) this programme, delivered at Northumbria University is an
opportunity to study a bespoke and newly developed curriculum specifically for
those working in health or social practice. To enter the programme you are
required to have a degree at 2:2 or above or equivalent. In addition, certain
modules also require appropriate
registration as a health or social practice professional with an appropriate
licensing board / health department. Other qualifications, equivalent
professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be considered
on an individual basis. The programme reflects contemporary health and social
practice, and you will learn alongside other practitioners from a variety of
professional backgrounds. This level 7 programme will enable you to develop
understanding of theory related to your field of health or social practice and
explore the impact of this within your organisation, team and as an individual
situated in practice. It will enable you to enhance your practice at the same
time as gaining an award. On completion you will be awarded a MSc Health and
Social Practice. (Bracketed Award) (Clinical, Education, or Leadership and
Management). The programme provides a
flexible method of study for you to that fits around your health or social
practice role. Its flexible design will
enable to step on and off the framework as you progress between points.
Entry Requirements:
To enter the programme you are required to have
a degree at 2:2 or above or equivalent and appropriate registration as a health
or social practice professional with an appropriate licensing board / health
department. Other qualifications, equivalent professional qualifications and/or
relevant work experience will be considered on an individual basis
For applicants who wish to undertake V300 (non-medical
prescribing) in their first semester of their Health and Social Practice
Framework programme, please click on apply now and choose the application for
the correct starting month. Once your application is complete we will contact
you in order to confirm whether or not you have been allocated a place. Please
note for the January 2024 intake, your application must be complete i.e. with
all required documentation, by 20th November 2023 if you wish to undertake V300 (non-medical
prescribing) as your first optional module.
To discover more about the Non-Medical Prescribing course
requirements please visit the below course pages:
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) – Level 6
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) – Level 7
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) - Recognition of Prior Learning - Level 6
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) - Recognition of Prior Learning - Level 7