Advanced Clinical Practice (Taught)

Develop an advanced clinical practitioner skillset. You’ll be able to meet the needs of the growing number of people who live with complex and long-term conditions.

As part of this course you’ll:

• Follow the NHS four-pillar framework for advanced clinical practitioners: clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research

• Develop the advanced health assessment skills and professional expertise you’ll need to work as an autonomous practitioner

• Apply your expert knowledge, complex decision-making skills and clinical reasoning in your clinical setting

• Be client-centred and clinically focused in your work

• Gain the essential skills you’ll need to work in acute, primary or secondary care settings, or in any organisation where you’ll need advanced diagnostic skills.

Professional body regulation

This course is accredited by the Centre for Advancing Practice. The Centre was established to standardise post-registration education by accrediting advanced practice courses that achieve the standards outlined in the multi-professional Advanced Practice Framework. On successful completion of this course, you’ll be eligible to join the Centre’s Advanced Practice Directory.

Your academic community

We are an established and experienced provider of postgraduate courses in health and social care. You’ll join a community and network that includes senior nurses and allied health professionals such as paramedics, physiotherapists and pharmacists.

Develop your skillset

You’ll gain skills that you’ll use in your working environment, such as:

• Critique

• Analysis

• Clinical reasoning

• Communication

• Consultation

• Team working

• Time management.

Why study Advanced Clinical Practice at Leeds Beckett University...

• 100% of MSc Advanced Clinical Practice graduates in work or further study 15 months after graduation*

• Professionally accredited course

• Specialist facilities

• Based on NHS four-pillar framework for advanced clinical practitioners

• Access to guest speakers and visiting professionals.

Percentage of respondents from this course, HESA Graduate Outcomes 21-22*

Advanced health assessment: core systems; advanced health assessment: supplementary systems; professional development advancing practice; understanding and evaluating evidence; non-medical prescribing; dissertation.