Course Overview
Our MA Advanced Professional Practice has been designed for experienced professionals and allows you to take a tailored route to an MA. This is ideal if you want to achieve a qualification that meets your professional CPD requirements whilst gaining academic credits. Your individual pathway is designed to meet your specific areas of interest, with the modules and assessments focused on knowledge and skills that will develop you and your organization.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 2 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- An honors degree at 2:2 or higher in social work, nursing, occupational therapy, or another related discipline
- If English is not your first language then English language proficiency required is IELTS 6.5 (with no element less than 5.5) – or equivalent qualification
- Relevant professional experience required
Careers
Develop your practice and career opportunities in a variety of professional roles. The course is aimed primarily at qualified and experienced professionals already in roles within and managers in professions that ‘work with people such as social work, health, social care, early years, further and higher education, and other public service organizations. The program enables you to reflect on your own practice within your current role and to effect real change in your own organization.
Course Content
Modules
- Advanced Critical Analysis and Decision Making
- Developing Advanced Practice
- Developing Professional Leadership
- Developing Resilience
- Leadership and Management in a Professional Setting
- Practice Education 2
- Research Methods and Dissertation
- End of Life Care
- Good Practice in Bereavement Care
- Mentoring
- Portfolio of Academic and Professional Learning
- Positive Approaches to Risk and Intervention
- Practice-Based Project
- Resilience in Practice with Children and Families
- Specialist Knowledge in Practice
- Supporting Children and Young People Facing Death or Experiencing Loss or Bereavement
- Writing for Publication
