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Education For Healthcare Professionals

Develop your learning and teaching skills in a variety of state-of-the-art facilities, including the University's Clinical Simulation Centre and Hydra Simulation Centre.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    March

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

The Postgraduate Certificate in Education for Health Care Professionals is specifically designed to prepare registered health care professionals to develop and adopt an educational role across a range of settings, both academic and practice based.

DESIGNED FOR

Participants will have a genuine interest in supporting learning and the development of effective learning environments.

Career Paths

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  • Practice Educator
  • Lecturer
  • Clinical Skills Tutor

Skills Taught

  • Ability to facilitate learning 
  • Ability to plan sessions
  • Greater understanding of supporting learners with specific needs
  • Enhanced confidence in assessing learners
  • Ability to enhance the learning environment  

We make a difference in practice, not just on paper. Our courses are designed by people who offer jobs - and taught by people who have real work experience.

Lecturer and students taking part in a practical session
Student nurse treating a patient in the clinical simulation centre with a lecturer overseeing
A group of nursing students stood in a line taking instructions from a nursing lecturer in the clinical simulation centre
A lecturer using a stethoscope on a patient in a simulated practical session.

Course Highlights

Career Progression

Previous participants have been very successful in gaining promotion and new roles as educators.

Supportive Course Team

The course team will support you throughout your journey.

Outstanding Facilities

Our state of the art Clinical Simulation Centre replicates an NHS environment

Module Overview

This course commences every April and runs through until the following March. There are two modules to complete with a total of 60 credits. On-campus study days are on a Friday 10am to 3pm.

Facilitating Learning, Teaching and Assessment in the Context of Practice

This module aims to develop knowledge, skills and competence to effectively facilitate and support learning and undertake the assessment of students and others within the context of the participants’ area of practice.

Enhancing the Learning Experience in the Context of Practice

This module aims to explore and develop the quality of the student experience and student learning in the context of practice and to critically examine their role in effectively enhancing the learning experience.

Course Highlights

How you'll learn

Theoretical learning will be managed through facilitated learning processes that include
tutorial, workshops, role-play, participant-led learning activities and use of simulated learning environments.

Work-based–practice learning will focus on supporting learning and student assessment within the context of the participant's practice. Participants will have two summative observed facilitations of learning / assessment opportunities with students.

The participants will critically reflect and develop from the feedback on these sessions and develop a supporting portfolio of the sessions. A further element of assessment will focus on developing and leading an initiative within the participant's context of practice to enhance the students and others learning experience.

Teaching staff

There is a core team of very experienced senior lecturers who are also registered healthcare professionals that will support you through this course and facilitate your learning and development.


Participants will be allocated a Personal Tutor to offer support and guidance with all aspects of the course. Personal tutors will also offer academic supervision to help the participant prepare for summative assessments and undertake observations of the participant's facilitation of learning and assessment.

Placements

There is not an element of placements or work experience attached to this course but
participants must be in a role whereby they are able to facilitate learning and assessment of learning.

Facilities

This course is delivered on Glyntaff Campus whereby participants will be able to experience a range of teaching and learning facilities including the Clinical Simulation Suite, the Hydra Minerva Suite and other facilities.

Careers and Employability

Graduate careers

Participants on this course will already be employed as healthcare professionals, however as education is a key pillar for advancing practice, successful completion of the course may open opportunities for career development and progression.

Possible career paths

  • Practice Educators
  • Practice Facilitators
  • Lecturers
  • General Educators

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

Applicants must hold a 2:2 or above in a degree and have evidence of recent engagement with CPD activities. They must also be in a role whereby they are able to facilitate learning and assessment of learning.

Alternative Leave Permissions

Applicants with leave to remain in the UK, may be considered for this course depending on the type and duration of your leave. Please email [email protected] to obtain confirmation of how to proceed.

Unfortunately, this course is not currently open to international applicants who require a Graduate Route visa due to visa restrictions.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be tequired or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

Studying at USW

Our courses are designed with industry leaders and provide the practical skills and experiences industry demands. Our flexible courses reflect the need for life-long learning. If you value education in practice, not just in theory, then USW is for you.

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How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.

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