Postgraduate Diploma Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing)
Postgraduate Certificate / Master's Degree
The total service fee for this program:
€ 499
Pre payment for this program:
€ 99
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ABOUT
Introduction
The Postgraduate Diploma course has been designed to produce knowledgeable and skilled public health practitioners, able to work inclusively with client groups across different settings within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Standards (2018). You’ll reflect this knowledge and skill development by demonstrating your achievement of the NMC standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (2004).
The NMC standards include four key domains which require a practitioner to search for health needs; stimulate an awareness of health needs; influence policies affecting health and facilitate health- enhancing activities in different public health settings. The course delivers knowledge and skills linked to the Public Health Knowledge and Skills Framework.
The course embraces a family/child/workplace-centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, and focuses on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio-cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, to network and develop services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and the voluntary sector. You’ll learn to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.
This course is for people who wish to register on the third part of the NMC register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: Health Visitor, School Nurse, or Occupational Health Nurse. The course requires effective registration on Part 1 (Nursing) or Part 2 (Midwifery) of the NMC register.
The aim of our course is to prepare specialist community public health nursing (SCPHN) students with the skills and knowledge to provide leadership and innovation in community health. Our wider goals are to improve population health, in particular the health of children and families, and to prevent illness. As a SCPHN graduate, you’ll have the community capacity building skills you need to support the development of fair, inclusive and ever-improving community-based health and well-being services.
You’ll need to secure a secondment opportunity or fixed term contract from an employing organisation before you apply.
Structure
Content
The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.
During the course you’ll gain experience in a range of different settings and areas of professional practice through collaborative working and inter-professional learning.
You’ll cover the following areas:
- In settings and with age groups that are central to the responsibilities for the defined area of practice, health visiting, school nursing or occupational health nursing.
- Working with diverse populations, individuals and families facing multiple disadvantages, health inequalities and factors that contribute to health and wellbeing.
- Working with age groups considered as either important or that may be a potential area of responsibility even if not central to the areas of responsibility.
- Completing 60 days of consolidated practice within your defined area of practice to be completed over 12 weeks.
The practice element of the course is divided into two parts, taught and consolidated.
The taught practice element includes 15 days alternative practice experience, where students get the opportunity to gain an insight and understanding of services provided in settings or with population groups that would not be central to their pathway.
A period of consolidation provides an opportunity for you to focus on your specific profession, building on the previous experiences developed through the course and in practice. This period allows time to prioritise your workload and development your proficiency, as well as fitness to practise as a safe, accountable, and effective practitioner.
The course is 50% theory and 50% practice with designated time at the University in directed study, as well as time in practice with an allocated practice assessor who will co-ordinate and support your learning.
You will study the following modules:
- Principles of Evidence-b Based Public Health
- Public Health and Health Promotion
- Professional Perspectives in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
- Leadership and Enterprise.
Plus, one of the following optional modules:
- V100 Prescribing Practice
- Promoting the Health of School-aged Children in the Community
- Workplace, Health and Wellbeing.
The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we’ll inform you.
Careers
Careers / Further study
On successful completion of the course you will be able to:
- register with NMC as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- register as a Community Practitioner Nurse prescriber (if you have completed the V100 element of the course)
- enhance and build on your previous professional qualifications and practice
- develop your public health knowledge and skills
- start a career in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing.
Fees
There is currently no published fee data for this course.
Entry
Entry requirements
You will need to have the following:
- Active first level registration on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) professional register.
- Post Graduate Diploma applicants will require a 2:2 Honours Degree either in nursing or a health-related subject.
- To get onto the course, you need to secure a secondment opportunity or a studentship, supported by a fixed term contract from anemployer. Your employer will then pay you a salary/cost of living allowance pro-rata for the period that you are on the course, as well as provide you with a practice placement, which is essential for entry onto the course.
- To secure a sponsored or seconded place from an NHS Trust or other employer, all students will need to have a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) status and a satisfactory Occupational Health status.
Our recruitment to this course is informed by Health Education England’s Values Based Recruitment Framework and the purpose of this is to ensure that we recruit students whose individual values and behaviours align with the those of the NHS Constitution.
FREE VISA SERVICE
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accommodation
The UWE helps the international and UK students to find the best accommodation in the UK, and the students can choose the best option according to the price, distance, space, and other significant factors among the on-campus or off-campus accommodation in Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, or Newport, moreover, the students can use the university-managed accommodation (application opens on 10 June 2022, can create an account on the accommodation portal from 21 March 2022) or the private accommodation (if there is not enough place on the university-managed accommodation, can use shared rooms with your friends and classmates) during their educational period at this university, overall, the accommodation options are student village (£6,776.01 – £6,939.81), Wallscourt Park (£5,916.83 – £8,373.83), Glenside (£4,911.19 – £5,349.71), The Hollies (£5,296.82 – £7,894.69), Marketgate (£7,127.88 – £8,446.00), and so on.
After Graduation
Most the international students desire to work while studying in the UK to pay for their study and living expenses in this country and gain more business and living skills and experience, however, the international students must refer to their visas to find out whether they are allowed to work in the UK or not, overall, the students who hold a tire four visa can have a part-time job while studying in the UK for up to 10 or 20 hours per week, on the other hand, if the students’ visas say (no work or work prohibited), they cannot look for a job in this country and must simply focus on their studies, moreover, their careers must not be self-employed, sports coach, entertainer, full-time job, dentist, or doctors.