Course Overview

This course offers registered nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals (physiotherapists, podiatrists, paramedics and therapeutic radiographers) an opportunity to enhance their clinical skills and practice and become an independent non-medical prescriber. This increases your potential to access career opportunities and improves the service user/patient and carer experience by offering a timely and responsive access route to treatment.

This is a part-time course with two 30 credit modules starting in September or January. The delivery is a blended learning approach including taught blocks and online study - for both, there is a requirement for learning to take place within your own area of clinical practice. 

Please note 

• September start date commences with the Non-medical Prescribing module followed by Developing Clinical Skills (illness)

• January start date commences with Developing Clinical Skills (illness) 

You will:

• Be taught by a multi-professional team of independent prescribers and clinical experts

• Build the confidence to critically evaluate and challenge prescribing practice with reference to evidence based practice, equality and diversity and clinical governance

• Create and implement new approaches to care delivering that meets the needs of your client group

General Eligibility

Undergraduate degree

• You should have an undergraduate degree in a related discipline.

• Nurses should have 1 year post-registration experience

• Pharmacists require two years post-registration experience

• Allied Health Professionals should have three years post-registration experience.

GCSE

• Applicants must have the equivalent of a grade C or above, GCSE Mathematics and GCSE English.

Subject specific requirements

Current professional registration with GPhC, NMC or HCPC

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• International applicants will be required to show proficiency in English. An IELTS score of 6.5 (no element below 5.5) is proof of this.