Course overview
Enhanced practice apprentices will have many job titles and roles across health and social care, often working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Although they work across different settings or spheres of practice, they will often have a skillset and depth of knowledge relating to a specific sphere of practice, thus enhancing care. The course programme aligns with the Skills England Enhanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship standards.
Registrants working at an enhanced level of practice make a significant contribution to direct care, providing a consistent level of expertise within their profession, with a focus on a particular service context. Structured professional development through this apprenticeship is designed to enable registrants to deepen their profession-specific knowledge, support complex decision-making, and confidently manage complex care using critical thinking and situational leadership. In developing at an enhanced level of practice, this apprenticeship aims to support registrants to stay and thrive in their career. Professionals learn to apply their knowledge, skills and behaviours to contribute to the development of services, research, education and leadership as part of the multiprofessional team across health and care. This course has been designed to produce highly capable professionals who are working at the mid-point of their career, integrating contemporary theory, research and real-world evidence into everyday practice to improve outcomes in health and care. A blend of on-campus and online delivery will provide the opportunity for collaborative learning within specific professions and across professions and sectors maximising transferrable application in everyday practice.
The apprenticeship provides a structured programme of study that is profession and/or pathway specific to maximise expertise in practice. Apprentices learn alongside other professions to share and collaborate, fostering professional networks whilst simultaneously working on real life issues within their employment setting. All learners receive dedicated academic advice to help plan their programme of study as well as a work-based mentor to support them on-programme.
Course key information
- Start dates:
September
January
May - Course duration:
18 months - Course delivery:
Blended (online and on campus) - Level of Apprenticeship Standard: 6
- Level of Academic Study: 7 (PG Cert)
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How apprentices learn:
Learning Commitment: Combination of online and work-based learning. All Apprenticeships have a published amount of Off-the-Job hours that must be completed. The volume of off-the-job training should be agreed with the training provider and must take into account any relevant prior learning. Modules are taught across 4 semesters and will consist of a combination of face-to-face and online teaching and workplace learning.
Apprentices are also supported during their gateway period (following successful accomplishment of course modules) to prepare for completion of the end point assessment.
Entry requirements
Areas of Study
Utilising a competency-based learning and teaching strategy, professionals will be supported to further develop their thinking and application of evidence-based decision-making. They will draw on emerging models of practice, evidence and technology to lead the delivery of personalised complex care to individuals and contribute to service level approaches to enable sustainable outcomes that address health inequalities.
Learning across the course is designed to empower the apprentices working towards enhanced level to develop leadership capabilities and strategic insight needed to drive high-quality, person-centred care and organisational improvement. Working in profession-specific groups, they will critically assess their own clinical practice, leadership influence and quality improvement knowledge relevant to their profession and workplace setting. The combination of academic and workplace learning fosters a culture of continuous improvement, enabling professionals to recognise and support personal, professional and service level development with consideration of the existing and future workforce needs to deliver impactful health and social care.
All profession-specific learning will include a choice of learning in speciality areas and will allow competency-based learning across specific areas of practice.
Modules
