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Apply leadership theories to inform, manage, and develop healthcare services. Identify service needs, improvements, challenges, and opportunities. Develop leadership capabilities to improve service and clinical practice.
This 20-credit, Level 7 module will enable you to understand, use, and apply leadership theories to a range of advanced clinical practice roles to inform, lead, manage, and develop healthcare services. You'll develop leadership competency and capabilities and demonstrate these in the context of your developing advanced practice roles.
You'll acquire skills to articulate the advanced clinical practice leadership role to policymakers, decision‐makers, other healthcare professionals, and the public, enhancing understanding of the advanced practice role and optimising advanced clinical practice leadership capabilities in dynamic and unpredictable settings.
You'll also develop leadership capability to improve service and clinical practice working on an individual, systems, and organisational level and identify service needs, improvements, challenges, and opportunities applying real-life problem-solving skills.
This course runs from February to November 2025. The number of face-to-face taught hours for the course is 16, with 20 directed study hours and 164 independent study hours.
Face-to-face teaching is delivered at City Campus every other week, from February to July, with a written assessment due in November.
Assessment takes the form of a written assignment submitted online, assessing all course learning outcomes.
We don’t currently display entry requirements for United States. Please contact the Student Admin team on studentadmin@sunderland.ac.uk or 0191 515 3154.
To be eligible for this course, you must be a registered healthcare professional and working in a clinical, leadership, or managerial role at an advanced level of practice.
The fee for this course is £840.
The employer usually meets these costs – we advise you to speak to your workforce development lead before applying.
We also accept self-funded applicants and encourage anyone wishing to explore their options to contact cape@sunderland.ac.uk.
This information was correct at the time of publication.
This module can also be studied on our MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner (apprenticeship). For further information on either of these courses, contact ACP@sunderland.ac.uk.