PgD - Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship

Year one

This course is 18 months long. In the first 12 months, you will develop your assessment skills, patient approaches and leadership skills whilst undertaking development within your practice also.

In order to meet nationally set criteria, the minimum required Off the Job learning hours (20%) will take place for example in lectures, seminars, job shadowing and industrial visits.

• Physical Assessment and Consultation in Enhanced Practice
  This module aims to support clinicians developing their physical assessment skills, with the support of advanced pathophysiology, knowledge, clinical reasoning, diagnostic referral and onward patient care. The module will also acknowledge patterns of deterioration and evaluative techniques used whilst maintaining within own scope of practice.
• Complex Patient Care
  This module aims to support clinicians developing their practice in the management of complex patients including an appreciation of acute and long term conditions and the holistic approach to management. Concepts around managing complex/life limiting conditions and integration of advanced communication skills and health promotion will be explored in this module.
• Leadership in Enhanced Practice
  This module will enable the development of the knowledge, skills and behaviours associated with effective clinical leadership, reflected in the leadership pillar of practice. It will allow learners to develop skills to support innovative and progressive thinking in response to the need for delivering safe, patient-centred care within changing and dynamic practice environments.
• Enhanced Clinical Practice: Workplace Learning
  This module will run alongside the length of the entire programme and will enable you to undertake work-based learning in alignment to your field of practice, tying all of your taught theoretical module and applying this to real world tasks to undertake, developing experience and contributing to reflexivity. This module will allow for tailoring of a specific pathway for the programme.

Year two

In the second year, you will develop skills in the research arm on enhanced clinical practice through completion of your workplace learning and undertake a quality improvement project. This module will allow you to consolidate all the learning across the programme into a project that you will then put forward in your end-point assessment.

• Developing Practice
  With support of a supervisor, you will independently undertake a Proposal for Change project which outlines an area for quality improvement within your field of practice. This includes developing the ability to outline key objectives, argue or refute argument with support of current evidence, participate in a peer-review process, evidence understanding of research methodology, consider and anticipate impact and success measurement and ethical considerations whilst also making allowance for real-world practice application.
• End-Point Assessment Gateway
  This non-credit baring qualificatory practice unit will allow you to ensure all competencies are met and you are on track to undertake your end point assessment.