HA7012 - Commencing the Apprenticeship Journey

You will develop through learning and development opportunities that arise in the context of your work supported by learning opportunities curated across the leadership curriculum. This unit has been designed to enable you to seek out and to pursue such opportunities by providing a platform for knowledge exchange and skills development, which while tutor-led is focused upon the distinctive learning needs of Higher Apprentices. These opportunities will introduce you to the leading knowledge in the field, current practices across sectors, and provide time and space to discuss with tutors and your peers how these relate to your own work-based experiences and practice.

You will be guided in your learning and development by a team of academics, practice tutors, workplace coaches and, of course, your workplace mentor. You will work with these individuals to develop a portfolio of learning that demonstrates that your appreciation of the manner in which the knowledge, skills and behaviours outlined in the HA standard allow you to perform the 12 core duties that underpin leadership and management at this level.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1.You will demonstrate a critical knowledge and understanding of key concepts relating to leadership as defined in the standard.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2. You will demonstrate skills and abilities relating to leadership as defined in the standard.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
3. You will demonstrate behaviours relating to leadership as defined in the standard.

This module will assess the evidence you are developing for your Higher Apprenticeship, to award academic credit. Therefore, you are not required to do anything further than your apprenticeship. The award of academic credit will be made on the basis of:

1. Satisfactory evidence of progress reviews to date, with records of these agreed by the workplace coach and mentor. (MLO1, 2, 3) (MLO1, 2, 3)
2. Satisfactory evidence of ‘personal development reflective learning account’ to date, with records of each learning opportunity undertaken, across the range of opportunities offered on-programme and in the workplace environment. (MLO 1, 2, 3)
3. Satisfactory evidence of six holistic workplace evidence narratives. These should have completed narratives, supporting artefacts and witness testimony, and are agreed by the workplace coach and mentor. (MLO 1, 2, 3)
4. Evidence of engagement with English and Maths at level 2 (if required) (MLO 2)

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This six-month module introduces you to the Senior Leader Higher Apprenticeship programme. Over the duration of this period, you will develop knowledge, understanding, and practical skills central to senior leadership roles, in addition to key skills essential for academic learning.

Themes covered will include:
1.People at Work: The Nature and Limits of Managing
2. Managing Communications in Organisations
3. Strategy and the strategy processes
4. Markets and Marketing
5. Innovation and Change
6. Managing Operations
7. Digital: Challenges and Opportunities
8. Managing Resource and Finance
9. Ethics and Enterprise
10. Managing and Developing People
11. Developing self as a leader
12. Big data in organisations

You will engage in learning within your own workplace, attend university masterclasses and practice development sessions, conduct independent study across a range of curated resources, and reflect on the learning and experience of this journey.