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Anderson Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme

About the course

Final Awards:

Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship

PG Diploma Healthcare Leadership

MSc Healthcare Leadership

This holistic programme includes a part-time level 7 Apprenticeship in Senior Leadership and a Masters (MSc) qualification in Healthcare Leadership from the University of Hertfordshire, with an NHS Leadership Academy award in Senior Healthcare Leadership (the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award). It is aimed at those with senior management responsibilities within health and social care settings, both clinical and non-clinical, who are looking to develop clear, inclusive, and strategic leadership capability relating to their area of responsibility within their organisation.

The course focuses on three key areas:

  • Leadership that promotes equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Leadership focused on the quality of care provided to patients, service users and carers
  • Leading sustainable improvement of services and processes.

Within the level 7 apprenticeship (and PG Diploma Healthcare), learners will navigate through six interconnected modules, supported by a team of expert tutors offering regular reviews, development and coaching. Each module focuses on one of the core themes of leading self, leading teams and leading organisations and systems. The final top up modules of the programme involves writing a healthcare leadership case study (dissertation) leading to a Masters (MSc) healthcare leadership.

Learners will also benefit from work-based mentorship, peer-peer support through action learning sets, on-campus workshops and self-paced online courses. A unique collaboration between The University of Hertfordshire’s Business School and School of Healthcare and Social Work allows you to open up networks that provide real-world input into learning, which is valuable towards future job opportunities.

Why choose this course?

  • you’re a leader in a health and/or social care setting with senior management responsibility, looking to apply your learning to challenges within your organisation
  • you aspire to become a transformative leader and gain expert knowledge, skills and behaviours to enhance your career within a health and/or social care environment
  • you want to study a course which leads to eligibility for Chartered Manager Status (from the Chartered Management Institute)
  • you want to study part-time, benefiting from a flexible and blended learning journey, with a mixture of online and on-campus delivery.

Experienced apprenticeship training provider: Our apprenticeships are underpinned by research, led by experts and designed in close collaboration with your employer. Our robust support services will ensure you get the assistance you need to thrive.

Flexible part-time blended study: Balance study and work through employer focused assignments, which address real challenges within your organisation. You’ll put your learning into practice by applying your knowledge, skills and behaviour to your current role.

Excellent support: Feel empowered by a high level of pastoral and academic support. These include a wide range of student wellbeing services, practical help from our staff in the Centre for Academic Skills Enhancement which provide all the skills support that you need to improve your assignments and study habits, and access to the Learning Resource Centre which includes a space to study with a range of technology available to support your studies. Your programme leader, module leader and academic tutor are all on hand to support you. Plus, you’ll have a dedicated work-based learning tutor to help you maximise learning opportunities in your workplace.

What will I study?

You will study a range of modules which incorporate theoretical knowledge and understanding with the practical application of skills and behaviours in the apprentice’s workplace. This includes:

  • Understand how you, as a leader, can make a difference to improving care quality and patient experience
  • Enabling others to give their best to improve care quality and patient experience
  • Embedding behaviours that improve care quality and patient experience
  • Making patient-centred co-ordinated care happen
  • Making decisions based upon the best available evidence to improve care quality and patient experience
  • Creating value for patients and the public.

How you will learn

  • Coaching and leadership development from a specialist academic tutor
  • Work-based mentor support
  • Our Virtual Campus, an online learning environment including useful resources
  • Action Learning Sets
  • Critical and reflective assignments
  • A strategic business proposal
  • Professional discussion.

The programme consists of six compulsory modules leading to the PG Diploma Healthcare Leadership and the Level seven senior leader degree apprenticeship followed by a zero-credit apprenticeship module and then two dissertation modules leading to the MSc Healthcare Leadership. All modules are delivered online and are supported with an online group tutorial in the first week.

These modules are accompanied by seven compulsory on-campus experiential workshops (16 days in total) which take place across the duration of the programme, and 10 compulsory full days (six on campus and four online) of working in small action learning sets to apply learning to the workplace.

Careers

This course is ideal for you if you aspire to step into a senior leadership role within a healthcare setting, aiming to make a broader impact. It is designed for you if you are committed to enhancing your leadership skills and behaviours while pursuing an academic qualification. You should be motivated to apply newly acquired skills, insights, and behaviours directly to real-time improvements in your professional work environment.

Upon completion of the course, you will receive the NHS Leadership Academy Award in Senior Healthcare Leadership and become eligible for Chartered Manager status with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). This would validate your expertise in healthcare leadership and boost your credibility in the job market.