AdvDip(CPD) Infection Control of Leaders in Healthcare (HE6)
Course Overview
This stand-alone advanced professional development course offered by the University of Greater Manchester is designed to empower healthcare leaders in a variety of roles with the knowledge and skills necessary to guide their teams in understanding and applying infection prevention and control principles within their areas of responsibility.Through focused synchronous teaching sessions, you will gain a solid understanding of organisational infection prevention and control strategies, your role in driving these initiatives, and how you can promote a culture of safety and compliance within your teams.
You will develop the leadership skills to support your team and advocate safe practice through action learning, group collaboration, and directed study. This will include techniques in risk management, managing expectations, and using data for surveillance.
The course will conclude with a poster presentation to assess your knowledge and highlight your work across your organisation.
Highlights
- Our dedicated academic team has a wealth of experience working in health and social care settings. They are engaged in relevant research and bring their expertise and passion for service excellence to their teaching.
- This continuing professional development course is flexible and designed to fit in with busy home and working lives.
- As you study this course, we'll encourage you to develop the skills, values and behaviours popular with employers. These include action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, social and ethical responsibility, problem-solving, initiative and communication skills.
- When you successfully complete this course, the University of Greater Manchester will award you an Advanced Diploma of Continuing Professional Development in Infection Control for Leaders in Healthcare, worth 10 credits at Level HE6.
Key Features
- This short course allows you to enhance your skills quickly, especially useful if you have responsibilities that might otherwise prevent you from studying.
- We've been offering high-quality courses specifically designed to meet the needs of the health and social care sector for over 30 years.
- Regular review of the course curriculum ensures that contemporary theories are adopted.
- Your employer may give you financial support to undertake this course, or you may be self-funded.
- Completing this course will enhance your professional practice proficiency and demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Entry Requirements
- You must have an appropriate health and social care-related qualification (for example, registered nurse or allied health professional).
- You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
- If English isn’t your first language, you’ll also need IELTS 6.0 with no less than 5.5 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications – please visit our English Language Requirements web page for more details.
Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.
Career Opportunities
This course offers academic progression for healthcare professionals. It provides a trajectory of learning which enhances your existing knowledge, helping you deliver outstanding care.
As a recognised and approved programme of study, this course offers evidence of your continuing professional development and demonstrates you are an autonomous, confident and highly employable practitioner with expertise in the healthcare field.
Fees & Funding
The Royal College of Nursing may offer educational grants. Please visit https://rcnfoundation.rcn.org.uk/Apply-For-Funding/Educational-grants for information.
Home/EU Fees
No fee information is currently available, please contact the University of Bolton’s Academic Fees team by emailing AcademicFees@bolton.ac.uk for more information.
International Fees
No fee information is currently available, please contact the University of Bolton’s Academic Fees team by emailing AcademicFees@bolton.ac.uk for more information.
Important note regarding tuition fees: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
How to apply
Home Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
International Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
Partner Organisation Applicants
Please contact Admissions by telephone on 01204 903903 or email enquiries@bolton.ac.uk
Admissions
University of Bolton
Deane Road
Bolton, BL3 5AB
United Kingdom
Tel: 01204 903903
Email: enquiries@bolton.ac.uk
Teaching & Assessment
The course will be delivered over an 8-week period with six taught days. Using the University of Greater Manchester's campus plus approach, 70% of the teaching will take place in person (face-to-face), with the other 30% being delivered using flexible and creative learning technologies. Tutorials will be structured within the timetable, including the opportunity for formative feedback. Subject matter experts from the clinical environment will inform the course content.
Formative assessment supports learning by allowing you to reflect on feedback from your tutors and peers. It takes a variety of forms, including practice assessments, reviewing written work, and role-playing. The summative assessment strategy is underpinned by a poster presentation that will demonstrate your creative flair and knowledge. The presentation will be followed by a professional discussion with an opportunity for questions.
We use a blended style of learning and teaching, including online delivery and engagement where appropriate.
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
