MSc Advanced Clinical Practice Degree Apprenticeship

This degree apprenticeship enables the apprentice to develop their personal and professional autonomy, providing them with a comprehensive and critical understanding of professional practice, and ensuring that they are fit for future challenges within health and social care.

The apprenticeship is flexible for multi-professional individuals from all areas of advanced practice within acute and primary care sectors – apprentices access the same core modules. The negotiated competencies within the first-year portfolio module give the apprentice flexibility to ensure maximum relevance and application to their clinical area. The apprentice develops their advanced and core transferable skills relevant to their area of practice – they develop their advanced clinical decision-making skills, using evidence-based approaches to care, lead innovation and practice, and develop high levels of autonomy.

The apprenticeship is developed in partnership with key stakeholders from practice and delivered by an experienced team with knowledge and academic credibility both within and outside of the University. This multi-professional team has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modules of this nature for healthcare professionals at all academic levels. The apprentice studies this course on a part-time basis over three years. They are supported through their studies by an academic supervisor and they also need to identify a practice supervisor. To access the apprenticeship route the apprentice must be working in a healthcare setting with relevant registration and be sponsored by their organisation.

To be accepted onto a degree apprenticeship course you must have support from your employer, and also meet the course entry requirements - you can find these below.

Apprentices must:

• Have current registration with a relevant professional healthcare body such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council

• Have an honour’s degree in a health-related subject (previous experience and evidence of study at Level 6 may be considered)

• Work in a healthcare organisation, normally at the equivalent of band 6 (or above) within an area of advanced practice

• Work in a role which requires diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for a patient caseload for a minimum of 20 hours a week

• Have a minimum of three years, full-time or equivalent in part-time hours, post-registration clinical experience

• Be able to organise for a suitable practitioner (for example, a medical doctor or an active advanced practitioner) to act as a practice supervisor

• Hold Level 2 qualifications in English and maths before starting their Teesside University apprenticeship.