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Health and Social Care Leadership (Taught)

  • Postgraduate Diploma
  • 2 Years
  • Part-Time
  • September 2027
  • Postgraduate
Distance learning
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2027-2028
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Course summary

Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest course information.
Course summary:

  • Join a synchronous online programme of innovative learning experiences.

  • Gain advanced leadership skills for complex health and social care contexts.

  • Lead strategically to improve services at system and organisational levels.

  • Apply evidence and theory to real-world leadership challenges.

  • Build confidence to influence change and drive service transformation.

This PGDip in Health and Social Care Leadership equips you with the strategic insight, practical tools, and critical understanding to lead complex and continually evolving care systems. You’ll explore leadership theory, service improvement, organisational development, and the wider socio‑political context of care. You can progress through flexible pathways from PG Certificate to PG Diploma to MSc.

For full details of course modules, assessments, and teaching methods, please visit the course page on our website: https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/health-and-social-care-management/pgdip-health-and-social-care-leadership/distance-learning

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Distance learning

Study options

  • Postgraduate Diploma • Part-Time • 2 Years

Start dates

  • September 2027

Entry requirements

A first degree or an appropriate professional qualification considered to represent equivalence to a degree. In some circumstances experience of degree level study along with leadership/management experience will be considered. Where English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 is required, with no individual element below 5.5. Previous work experience of a professional role and management or leadership context that will support the work-based learning elements of the course and will enable you to learn in practice.

English language requirements

Where English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.5 is required, with no individual element below 5.5.https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/health-and-social-care-management/pgdip-health-and-social-care-leadership/distance-learning/

Fees and funding

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