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Caring for people living with frailty in the health or social care sector is influenced by multiple complex factors and demands skilled assessment and management. Building on your existing knowledge from clinical practice, this course is designed to help you develop a solid understanding of best practice in the assessment and management of frail adults.
Key information
Award:
AdvDip(CPD)
Mode of Study:
Part-time
Duration:
14 weeks
Location:
University of Bolton
Start date:
To be confirmed
Course Details
This stand-alone course is for health and social care professionals with a specialist interest in frailty. It's beneficial to work in a relevant area of practice while studying this course, as it helps you transfer your knowledge of theory and apply it in practice. The module aims to deepen your understanding of frailty's physical and psychological impact on a person's health and wellbeing.
We'll guide you to explore and evaluate evidence-based methods for detecting frailty and encourage you to consider appropriate theoretical principles as part of your decision-making process. Examining the theories surrounding frailty can help you understand the causes of frailty and the long-term impact frailty has on health and social care outcomes. We'll also support you in developing skills in frailty assessment and care planning for individuals living with frailty.
Highlights
Our dedicated academic team brings extensive health and social care experience to the course content. Along with their passion for service excellence in health and social care settings, they're also currently engaged in highly relevant research, which means they can add valuable context and insight to your learning.
The course is part of a professional development framework. You can use the credits you'll gain by completing the course successfully towards the University of Bolton's MSc in Health and Social Care.
The course is designed to provide the flexibility 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, respect, and commitment to quality.
Key Features
The University of Bolton has been offering high-quality courses designed to meet the health and social care sector's needs for over 30 years, so we have the knowledge and experience to anticipate and respond to changes in the health and social care sector.
We review the course curriculum regularly to ensure we include and apply contemporary theories.
This programme is a product of a strong commitment by the University of Bolton and our practice partners to work collaboratively to develop high-quality education. It represents an opportunity to develop and maintain consistently high standards of care of the frail adult and end-of-life care across our healthcare economy.
This collaborative programme brings together the expertise of highly regarded clinicians, educationalists, patients and carers, researchers and academics who are all specialists in their field, ensuring your experience is highly engaging, current and always centred around the pursuit of individualised care for frail adults.
On successfully completing this course, you'll be awarded an Advanced Diploma of Continuing Professional Development in Care of the Frail Adult worth 20 credits at Level HE7.
You must have an appropriate health and social care-related qualification (e.g. registered nurse, assistant practitioner, allied health professional, or paramedic).
You should be working in a health and social care setting in a role where you can gain experience of working with frail adults.
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 7.0 with normally no less than 6.5 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.
This course offers academic progression in the specialist field of adult frailty and end of life care.
Course fees
Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year:
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.
For details of how to apply for this course, please choose your status from the options below:
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During this module, you'll receive keynote lectures that introduce the topics. Each lecture will be pertinent to the topic being developed, and teaching will be through wider groups to enhance your understanding and decision-making about which care planning or interventions may enhance overall outcomes for the individual. This approach will ensure you encounter a wide range of case histories and complex issues. You'll receive individual tutorials aimed at meeting your individual learning needs, plus a mixture of methods, including individual and group exercises and discussion, and self-directed study.
As well as lectures and tutorials, a range of web-based resources will be made available to you via Moodle, the University's virtual learning environment, to aid you in achieving the knowledge requirement identified. E-learning is also provided via Moodle to enable you to undertake further study in a place and at a time that's convenient for you. This programme adopts a blended learning and teaching style, including online delivery and engagement where appropriate.
Regarding assessment, you'll need to complete a written assignment designed to test your understanding of frailty. This summative assessment will contribute to your final marks and allows you to demonstrate that you've met the learning outcomes for the course.
We also use formative assessment to help you learn, provide you with feedback and inform your development, though this will not count towards your final marks.
Modules
Care of the Frail Adult
Assessment methods
Level
Assesment method
Level one
Coursework 100%
Learning activities
Level
Learning activity
Level one
Guided independent study 82%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 18%
Disclaimer
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.
