Advanced Management (Applied Innovation), PGCert
Swansea, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Oct 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 7,200 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Introduction
Have you just completed or are about to complete The Bevan Exemplar Programme, the Climb Programme, or the equivalent?
This course provides a unique opportunity for professionals in the health and care sector to develop their leadership and management skills while applying innovative approaches to transform the way health and care services are delivered.
The Bevan Exemplar Programme is a national program that supports health and care professionals in developing and implementing innovative solutions to improve services and patient outcomes, while the Climb Programme is a leadership development program for emerging leaders in health and care. This course will offer academic input, pedagogical framing, and assessment mechanisms for experiential learning.
This PGCert Advanced Management (Applied Innovation) provides a unique and innovative approach to leadership and management development in the health and care sector, which is essential for meeting the challenges facing the sector today and in the future through research and innovation.
If learners, having completed the PGCert, wish to further their studies to a full Master’s degree they will be able to apply for the MSc Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation) by cashing in their existing credits.
Why Advanced Management (Applied Innovation) at Swansea?
- Be the key driving force to transform health and care systems for the better through a practical research project
- Provide an opportunity for health and care professionals to undertake a critical evaluation of underlying theory, practice, and research in health and social care.
- Engage contemporary issues about the transformation and improvement of health and social care through research
- Innovative teaching blends theory with practice through case analysis, participant observation, role play, and master classes by subject experts.
- Access to world-class academics with extensive experience
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
You may be eligible for funding to help support your study.
If you're a UK or EU student starting a master’s degree at Swansea University, you may be eligible to apply for Government funding to help towards the cost of your studies.
To find out about scholarships, bursaries, and other available funding opportunities please visit the University's scholarships and bursaries page.
Academi Hywel Teifi at Swansea University and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol offer several generous scholarships and bursaries for students who wish to study through the medium of Welsh or bilingually.
Curriculum
The PGCert Advanced Management (Applied Innovation) is taught via a blended approach of online and in-person engagement with academic staff and subject matter experts.
The program is based on the interaction between theory and practice and will provide you with a critical appreciation of applying research skills and methodologies in a health and care context.
The delivery of this course is in phase with the delivery of the current MSc Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation).
Year 1 (Level 7T)
Students choose 60 credits from the following:
Compulsory Modules
None found.
Optional Modules
Compulsory Electives
Choose Exactly 60 credits from the following Modules:
NOTE: Please select one from the list below according to your entry route. Learners from the CLIMB program select MN-D021C. Learners that are Bevan exemplars select MN-D021B. All learners from other routes select MN-D021P.
Module Name
- Research in a Health and Care Context
- Research in a Health and Care Context
- Research in Practice
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Employment Opportunities
This course is designed to better equip current and emerging middle and senior managers within health systems (UK and globally), social care, life sciences, and third sectors to be the driving force behind innovation and transformation within their organizations.
Careers and Employability
Swansea Employability Academy (SEA) will support you at each stage of your career journey helping you build a bright future.
Our career support services include:
- Employability workshops, employers’ talks, bespoke events and careers fairs
- Individual advice and guidance from professionally qualified career advisers
- Help with finding jobs, internships, work placements, and volunteering opportunities
- Access to information resources on a wide range of career management topics
- Funding to support student internship opportunities and Student Society/Club events.
We also provide help and advice for Swansea University Alumni up to two years after you graduate.
Program delivery
Your Applied Innovation Experience
This course is delivered in a research and practice-led learning environment; where the most up-to-date knowledge is used to motivate and inspire learners; maximizing your learning outcomes. You will become co-creators of research during the PGCert Advanced Management (Applied Innovation).
Your learning will be developed through original applications of concepts and models to cases so that you are confident and equipped to deploy your new skills in your place of work.
You will also draw on local, regional, national, and international associations and networks. This breadth of research, teaching, and professional expertise will serve to greatly enrich your development in the field of innovation and transformation within health and care.
How You're Taught
The delivery of this course will be in phase with the delivery of the current MSc Advanced Health and Care Management (Innovation and Transformation).