Professional development courses

A full list of our professional development courses is given below, with links to more information about each course and how to apply. For more information about our subject areas please visit our support for employers| pages.

Please note that courses marked * are subject to validation.

Community Studies

Level HE4 courses
  • Culture and Community [HE4]
  • Working in Groups [HE4]
Level HE5 courses
  • Cultural Diversity within the Community [HE5]
  • Disability and Society [HE5]
  • Dynamics for Community Development [HE5]
  • Young People in the Community [HE5]
Level HE6 courses
  • Children in the Community [HE6]
  • Children's Learning and Their Development [HE6]
  • Neighbourhood, Community and Regeneration [HE6]

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Early Years Childhood Studies

Level HE6 courses
  • Children and their Books [HE6]
  • Children's Learning and Their Development [HE6]
  • Developing Children's Health and Wellbeing [HE6]
  • Diversity and Learning [HE6]
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness in the 'Early Childhood Years' [HE6]
  • Perspectives on International Childhood [HE6]
  • Safeguarding Children [HE6]

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Health and Social Care

Level HE4 courses
  • Developing Knowledge in Palliative and End of Life Care for Health and Social Care Support Workers [HE4]
  • Negotiated Learning [HE4]
Level HE5 courses
  • Acute Illness Management [HE5]
  • Children and Families [HE5]
  • Clinical Skills [HE5]
  • Cultural Diversity within the Community [HE5]
  • Disability and Society [HE5]
  • Empowerment and Advocacy [HE5]
  • Foundations of Palliative Care [HE5]
  • Health and Illness in Society [HE5]
  • Introduction to Psychology in Health and Social Care [HE5]
  • Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in Health and Social Care [HE5]
  • Managing Long-Term Conditions [HE5]
  • Mental Health Care, Perspectives and Practice [HE5]
  • Multidisciplinary End of Life Care [HE5]
  • Negotiated Learning [HE5]
  • Occupational Health and Safety (Public Health Nursing) [HE5]
  • Open Module [HE5]
  • Preparation for Mentorship [HE5] [HE5 by distance learning]
  • Primary Health Care [HE5]
  • Professional Practice Development Through Enquiry and Analysis 1 [HE5]
  • Safeguarding Children [HE5]
  • Sexual Health [HE5]
  • Therapy Skills [HE5]
  • Utilising a Palliative Care Approach in the Care Home Setting [HE5]
  • Working with Older People [HE5]
  • Working with Young People in Society [HE5]
Level HE6 courses
  • Advanced, Progressive Disease - Management and Supportive Strategies [HE6]
  • Assessing and Managing Symptoms in Palliative Care [HE6]
  • Case Management [HE6]
  • Child Care Law in Practice [HE6]
  • Child Public Health [HE6]
  • Child Protection Supervision [HE6]
  • Clinical Examination Skills [HE6]
  • Collaborative Working for Health Improvement [HE6]
  • Communication Skills for Professional Practice [HE6]
  • Critical Evaluation, Evidence and Practice [HE6]
  • Dimensions of Loss [HE6]
  • Family Centred Health and Social Care [HE6]
  • Foundations of Palliative Care [HE6]
  • Health Care of the Older Person [HE6]
  • Independent Prescribing Conversion/Top-up programme for Pharmacists [HE6]
  • Integrated Care Delivery for Long-Term Conditions [HE6]
  • Leading and Managing Teams [HE6]
  • Leading Health Promotion Practice [HE6]
  • Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in Health and Social Care [HE6]
  • Management of the Acutely Ill Patient [HE6]
  • Mental Health Perspectives [HE6]
  • Multidisciplinary End of Life Care [HE6]
  • Negotiated Learning [HE6]
  • Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professionals [HE6]
  • Non-Medical Prescribing for Nurses [HE6]
  • Non-Medical Prescribing for Pharmacists [HE6]
  • Open Module [HE6]
  • Preparation for Mentorship [HE6] [HE6 by distance learning]
  • Preparation for Nurses without SPQ to Prescribe from the Community Practitioner Formulary (V150) [HE6]
  • Principles and Practice for Clinical Skills Development [HE6]
  • Professional Practice Development Through Enquiry and Analysis 1 [HE6]
  • Professional Practice Development Through Enquiry and Analysis 2 [HE6]
  • Safeguarding Children [HE6]
  • Teaching and Learning in Palliative Care [HE6]
  • The Biological Basis of Disease and Therapeutics [HE6]
  • The Human Body: Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care [HE6]
  • Utilising a Palliative Care Approach in the Care Home Setting [HE6]
Level HE7 courses
  • Biological Basis of Disease and Therapeutics [HE7]
  • Child Care Law in Practice [HE7]
  • Child Public Health [HE7]
  • Child Protection Supervision [HE7]
  • Clinical Examination Skills [HE7]
  • Collaborative Working for Health Improvement [HE7]
  • Consultancy in Action [HE7]
  • Critical Evaluation, Evidence and Practice [HE7]
  • Family Centred Health and Social Care [HE7]
  • Integrated Care Delivery for Long-Term Conditions [HE7]
  • Introduction to Demography and Epidemiology [HE7]
  • Leading and Managing in Context [HE7]
  • Leading and Managing People [HE7]
  • Leading Health Promotion Practice [HE7]
  • Leading Service Evaluation and Improvement [HE7]
  • Managing and Commissioning for Performance [HE7]
  • Negotiated Learning [HE7]
  • Non-Medical Prescribing for Allied Health Professionals [HE7]
  • Non-Medical Prescribing for Nurses [HE7]
  • Non-Medical Prescribing for Pharmacists [HE7]
  • Preparation for Mentorship [HE7] [HE7 by distance learning]
  • Principles and Concepts in Research Design [HE7]
  • Principles and Practice for Clinical Skills Development [HE7]
  • Professionalism in Context [HE7]
  • Research Dissertation [HE7]
  • Researching Needs, Rights and Responsibilities [HE7]
  • Safeguarding Children [HE7]
  • Strategy, Marketing and Commissioning [HE7]

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Psychology

Level HE4 courses
  • Graduate Foundation Studies in Psychology [HE4] (full-time / part-time)
  • Psychology and Crime [HE4]
Level HE5 courses
  • Criminological Perspectives [HE5]
  • Personality and Developmental Psychology [HE5]
Level HE6 courses
  • Children's Learning and Their Development [HE6]
  • The Psychology of Loss and Trauma [HE6]
  • Abnormal Psychology [HE6]
  • The Psychology of Cyberspace [HE6]
  • Forensic Psychology [HE6]
Level HE7 courses
  • No courses available

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Sport and Leisure

Level HE4 courses
  • Clinical Anatomy [HE4]
  • Theraputic Skills [HE4]
  • Musculo-Skeletal Injury [HE4]

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Youth and Community Work

Level HE4 courses
  • The Youth Work Process and the Role of the Youth Worker [HE4]
  • Reflecting on Self and Learning to Learn [HE4]
  • Youth and Community Work [HE4]
Level HE5 courses
  • Managing Your Youth Work [HE5]
  • Diversity and Community [HE5]
  • Safeguarding Children [HE5]
Level HE6 courses
  • Children's Learning and Their Development [HE6]
  • Multi-Agency Working [HE6]

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