Advanced Professional Practice (K48) (Taught)

This qualification builds on your professional experience and continuing professional development (CPD), helping you turn workplace learning into deeper insights and lasting impact. You'll explore the theory and evidence behind effective practice, critically evaluate your CPD, and apply new ideas to your role. Through independent research on a topic that matters to you, you'll deepen your understanding of how learning drives meaningful change, create practical outcomes for your workplace, and share insights with peers to enhance reflective practice. By the end, you'll have the advanced skills and confidence to influence practice and lead meaningful change in your organisation and profession.

Key features of this course

• Converts your prior learning and professional experience into a recognised qualification

• Offers the flexibility to explore a topic of personal or professional relevance

• Develops high-level skills in critical thinking, research, reflection, and communication

• Equips you with practical and impactful outputs that can be used in your workplace

To gain this qualification, you need 60 credits. You'll study one compulsory 30-credit module and 30 credits from a choice of option modules.

You'll study the following:

• Continuing professional development in practice
  You’ll review your past CPD, assess its impact, plan future growth, and learn simple ways to share your learning and turn it into real‑world professional impact.

You'll choose one from:

• Advance your independent learning
  This innovative module allows you to take a topic of your choosing and focus on it in depth while developing your postgraduate study skills.

• Employment relations and employee engagement
  Examine how employment relations and practices operate within changing economic, political and social contexts and at various levels.