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Our PgDip Senior Leader: Heath and Social Care (Degree Apprenticeship) allows you to invest in your leadership team by combining university education, work-based learning and professional development. While working in your team, apprentices prepare for a career in senior management, developing skills to tackle complex, strategic business challenges in health and social care.
Award:
PgDip
Mode of Study:
Part-time
Duration:
30 months
Location:
University of Bolton
Start date:
To be confirmed
The University of Bolton's Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma Senior Leader: Heath and Social Care (Degree Apprenticeship) programme specifically seeks to develop the future leaders of organisations by developing their critical knowledge of health and social care organisations, their leadership and the changing contexts in which they operate. It’s designed to develop their knowledge and skills in strategic thinking for organisational success and challenge their leadership skills and style.
The programme aims to prepare health and social care professionals for the challenges of senior management. The Senior Leader apprenticeship standard is informed by employers and designed in collaboration with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) to qualify as a Level 7 apprenticeship under the apprenticeship levy guidelines. Study at the University of Bolton compliments learning in the workplace, supporting apprentices as they learn to provide direction and vision, a clear sense of organisational purpose and drive strategic intent.
Your apprentices will spend the majority of their time gaining on-the-job knowledge and experience. They will also complete at least six hours per week in off-the-job learning, including studying at the university. Our expert staff will guide them to learn to consider current trends, environmental and political influences, and identify opportunities and risks. We’ll support them to become inclusive leaders with the skills to develop ethical, innovative and supportive cultures that deliver results. Our dedicated team will also help them grow into their position as a role model with responsibility for others holding senior positions and significant organisational budgets.
Our flexible programme recognises the wide range of health and social care environments and the specific challenges they pose. We’ll work with you to devise individual learning agreements for each of your apprentices, ensuring they fulfil the core and essential criteria of the Senior Leader apprenticeship, as well as develop additional skills and knowledge valuable for your organisation. Throughout the course, we’ll guide them as they build a portfolio of evidence representing the knowledge, skills and behaviours they have developed while working as part of your team.
If you’re a potential student looking for postgraduate-level training in this subject area but don’t work for an employer that offers apprenticeships, please see our related courses section for details of study opportunities that don’t require current employment.
This course is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Successful completion of the PgDip Senior Leader: Health and Social Care (Degree Apprenticeship) will support apprentices wishing to pursue Chartered Manager status with the CMI.
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 Postgraduate Diploma is designed to meet the apprenticeship standard for Senior Leader (ST0480). Developed by employers in collaboration with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), the standard underpins a highly relevant qualification and professional development pathway that educates senior leaders who can lead, manage and direct organisations.
This qualification supports the development of professional strategic leaders in the private, public or third sector and organisations of all sizes. Graduate apprentices will be ready to take responsibility for direction and vision, provide a clear sense of purpose and drive strategic intent. They will be able to take into account trends and environmental influences and identify longer-term opportunities and risks. Through inclusive leadership, they will be able to take responsibility for developing ethical, innovative and supportive cultures to deliver results.
A wide range of health and social employers will find graduate apprentices holding our Postgraduate Diploma valuable. The universal appeal stems from the programme’s focus on collective business principles. On successful completion of the end point assessment after completing the course, apprentices will be well placed to move from middle management to a more senior management role. The programme also facilitates the option to top up to a Master's in Business Administration (MBA)
Specific job roles may include senior leader, section leader, executive, director, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief executive officer, chief information officer, senior military officer, HE registrar and head of department/faculty.
Apprentices will need to be employed by your organisation for a minimum of 30 hours per week. Your organisation will also need to commit to sponsoring apprentices to complete this qualification.
For further information on how your organisation can access funds to support apprentices, please e-mail apprentices@bolton.ac.uk.
Whether you’re an employer, employee or school leaver, please visit our Apprenticeship web page for support and advice regarding apprenticeships.
As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.
We offer a wide range of full-time courses in lots of different subjects, many of our courses start in September and January. If you would like to see what courses are available please visit our Course Search.
Apprentices will not be expected to pay tuition fees towards this programme. If your organisation has a wage bill of more than £3 million per annum, then it may be able to fund this apprenticeship through its Apprenticeship Levy contributions. If your organisation does not pay the levy, it will be eligible for government support to fund apprenticeships. This support, called co-investment, covers 95% of the apprenticeship's tuition fees, with your organisation funding the remaining 5% of the fees.
Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2022-2023 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:
Please contact the programme leader for details of the application procedure. You can find their name, email address and phone number in the Programme Contacts section of this page.
For support and advice regarding apprenticeships, please visit our Apprenticeship web page.
As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.
We offer a wide range of full-time courses in lots of different subjects, many of our courses start in September and January. If you would like to see what courses are available please visit our Course Search.
We use a range of learning, teaching, and assessment methods to make this course as beneficial as possible for you and your apprentices. These are designed to fully engage apprentices, helping them develop the skills, knowledge, self-awareness and behaviours essential to become a Chartered Manager, with particular reference to your organisation and their place within it. Your apprentices will spend most of their time in the workplace, with a minimum of six hours per week being devoted to off-the-job training and university learning. Learning focuses on your workplace environment and builds the transferable body of knowledge and skills demanded to achieve Chartered Manager status and apply this expertise within your organisation.
To complement lectures that introduce the course content, seminars and group-based activities allow apprentices to explore subjects in greater detail. Tutorials help them to clarify their understanding of the topics we cover in lectures and seminars. We use case studies and practical scenarios to help apprentices apply their newly acquired academic knowledge to real-life problems and gain valuable insights into contemporary practice in a working business environment. Apprentices will also be expected to undertake considerable guided independent study; for instance, library research and background reading, preparing for seminar and tutorial activities, and working on assignments.
Guest lectures and presentations by various visiting speakers offer apprentices the chance to develop their knowledge and understanding further. Our assessment methods are designed to reflect what is required of Chartered Managers in business and management settings. For example, the course requires apprentices to submit written reports, give presentations, develop their portfolios, and develop interpersonal skills. We also expect them to write essays and reflective accounts and play an active part in group discussions. Some assessments contribute to their final module marks, while others are designed to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses, and where they need to seek extra support from course tutors.
The modules listed below may be a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules shown as part of the course.
Level | Assesment method |
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Level one | Coursework 100% |
Level | Learning activity |
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Level one | Guided independent study 80% |
Level two | Scheduled learning and teaching activities 20% |
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.
The academic staff detailed above teach across a range of courses in this subject area and may not teach on this course specifically.
D.Fletcher-Wilde@bolton.ac.uk
+44 (0)1204 903434
apprentices@bolton.ac.uk
+44 (0)1204 903940