Overview
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship programme at the University of Bradford offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced mentor.
This MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship is suitable for registered healthcare professionals appointed as Advanced Clinical Practitioner Apprentices working in a range of settings including hospital, community, primary care, mental health and emergency care.
The programme prepares Apprentice Advanced Clinical Practitioners in readiness to meet the apprenticeship End Point Assessment (EPA) and thereby complete the award.
It develops skills designed to meet the challenges of delivering and advancing quality healthcare within a global context.
Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes and demonstrate impact and value.
The programme is intended to:
- Provide a flexible educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs, as well as the organisational needs of employers
- Provide opportunities for inter-professional teaching and learning to share the knowledge, skills and experience common to a range of different health and social care disciplines
- Stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning
- Develop your clinical skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level, applicable to your own field of practice including complex problem solving and risk assessment.
- Prepare you to become an autonomous practitioner, to work in advanced and specialist roles with high levels of accountability
- Develop you as a practitioner who will innovate, promote evidence-informed practice and improve service user outcomes
- Develop you as a critically reflective, competent leader who acts as a role model and manages service development towards effective, sustainable, inclusive, fair and ethically sensitive service provision