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As a health care professional, it is important your skills are of the highest calibre to ensure a top level of service to patients. The MSc Practice Development Occupational Therapy program has been developed with local stakeholders to meet the educational needs of health care professionals looking to continue their professional development in a multidisciplinary yet context welcoming way. You will benefit from a flexible approach to learning that fits around your work, life and shifts, allowing you to study through distance and work-based learning. Our subject specialists have extensive experience in distance learning. You will leave with the knowledge and skills to move forward in your career, reaching senior levels of employment. So, if you've got the ambition, we have the facilities and resources to help you achieve it.
There is a mandatory requirement that a minimum of 40 credits per academic year is studied unless a formal break from study or programme leader agreement exists.
Our long-established Practice Development Framework comprises tailor-made continuing professional development (CPD) for all healthcare professionals including nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiographers, paramedics as well as unregistered staff working in the health, wellbeing and social care sector. Your programme of study has been designed to meet your needs and interest in developing your professional and personal knowledge and expertise to develop excellence in practice within community, workplace and health and social care settings. Studying with us you will be offered the opportunity of tailoring your own programme of study. Delivery is flexible online distance learning. There may be opportunity to APL credits from other programmes you have studied into the programme and there are flexible funding options available, with the option to pay on a module-by-module basis or via a student loan where appropriate.
Your programme provides accessible higher education opportunities at a level which is appropriate to you, the student. The programme utilises a collaborative approach in the provision of inclusive person-centred continuing professional development education which has been developed following extensive engagement with employers, current students and external commissioners. Whilst undertaking this programme of study, you will be introduced to and experience the process of transformative learning, founded upon personal critical reflection which will develop you as a knowledgeable, flexible, enquiring practitioner, capable of problem solving and leading innovative approaches
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