MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (advanced clinical practitioner integrated degree route)

Course Overview

• Advanced Clinical Practitioners have experienced clinicians with expertise in their scope of practice, independently managing defined episodes of clinical care from beginning to end.

• Build on your current registrant level of practice through academic and workplace-based learning to attain advanced clinical practice competencies and capabilities in in-line with nationally recognized advanced-level criteria (Health Education England)

• Extend your critical thinking, analytical and reflective skills, and integrate new, as well as enhance existing clinical practice skills, knowledge, and competence, within your practice setting 

• Gain the skills to support the provision of high-quality healthcare through a more autonomous, independent practice role within the multi-disciplinary healthcare team

• Two pathways available: if you are a nurse, you will undertake the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) qualification; if you are an allied health professional, pharmacist, midwife, healthcare scientist, or other registered non-medical healthcare professional, then the MSc Advanced Clinical practice is appropriate for you, in supporting your advanced clinical practice role. 

General Eligibility

• A bachelor's Honours degree with a minimum 2:2 in any subject or equivalent.

• You must have been registered with your respective statutory regulator of health and care professions (i.e., NMC, HCPC) for a minimum of 3 years and provide proof of current registration.

• Level 2 English and Maths. If you do not hold this, you must complete this level before applying for the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice Apprenticeship. In conjunction with your supervisor/assessor and the University, your employer will confirm when you have met the criteria and are eligible to progress to the end-point assessment. 

• The University will uphold all requirements for independent assessment in the end-point assessment as identified by the Institute of Apprenticeships, which you need to complete in a maximum of three months.

• You cannot simultaneously commence another DfE-funded FE/HE program as an apprenticeship.

• You cannot use a student loan to pay for an apprenticeship. Where an individual transfers to training from a further full-time education or higher education course, and that course has been funded by a student loan, the loan must be terminated by the individual and confirmed with the University.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language, you will need to prove that you can understand English satisfactorily. English language requirements for this course usually are IELTS (academic) 7.0 or above, with a minimum of 7.0 in each component.