Professional Practice in Health

The BSc (Hons) award is designed for students who wish to consolidate their practice and evidence their professional development beyond Diploma in HE level and to progress their career or underpin their health and social practice role.

This programme allows the building of a coherent award, bespoke to the student, beyond their graduate studies leading to either a Generic award or a Leadership and Management bracketed award.

The award is studied through a combination of physical or online lectures, seminar, workshop, and practical sessions, with the opportunity of tutorial supervisions as appropriate to the teaching content. You will be supported by a personal tutor throughout your studies. You will be able to use online reading lists, and you are encouraged to use subject-specific, online library resources, electronic databases, and periodicals. You will have access to Blackboard Ultra, our online learning platform, which will host online learning and collaboration where appropriate and house module and programme materials. Learning support is supported by our library services team and their substantial experience supporting and developing learning either face to face or online.

The award consists of 120 credits at level 6 and can be studied in 2-5 years invoiced on a module credit basis.

Recognised prior learning (RPL) is considered on an individual basis in line with industry standards and alignment to programme learning outcomes. Entrants should be UK based and for certain modules hold a relevant health and social practice professional registration with bodies such as NMC or HCPC and normally have a Diploma of HE or Advanced Diploma of HE for degree entry in a subject related to their registration status. 

Lower-level awards can be achieved if desired, at exit points at the end of year 1 with 60 credits at level 6 (GCert) structured by the student’s needs and using current university regulations.

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BSc Programmes:

BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Health

BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Health (Leadership and Management)

BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Health Advanced Diploma Entry Point

The MSc award is designed for students who are already in possession of an Honours degree in a health and social practice related subject and wish to study at master's level (level 7) to progress their career or further underpin their health and social practice role beyond graduate level.

This programme allows the building of a coherent award, bespoke to the student, beyond their graduate studies leading to a Generic award or a Leadership and Management bracketed award.

The MSc award is studied through a combination of physical or online lectures, seminar, workshop, and practical sessions, with the opportunity of tutorial supervisions as appropriate to the teaching content. You will be supported by a personal tutor throughout your studies. You will be able to use online reading lists, and you are encouraged to use subject-specific, online library resources, electronic databases, and periodicals. You will have access to Blackboard Ultra, our online learning platform, which will host online learning and collaboration where appropriate and house module and programme materials. Learning support is supported by our library services team and their substantial experience supporting and developing learning either face to face or online.

The award consists of 180 credits at level 7 and can be studied in 3-5 years flexibly around the needs of the student using current university regulations and is invoiced on a module credit basis.

Lower-level awards can be achieved if desired, at exit points at the end of year 1 with 60 credits at level 7 (PGCert) or at the end of year 2 with 120 credits (PGDip) structured by the student’s needs and using current university regulations.

Recognised prior learning (RPL) is considered on an individual basis in line with industry standards and alignment to programme learning outcomes. Entrants should be UK based and for certain modules hold a relevant health and social practice professional registration with bodies such as NMC or HCPC and normally have a minimum 2:2 Honours degree in a subject related to their registration status. 

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MSc Programmes:

MSc Professional Practice in Health

MSc Professional Practice in Health (Leadership and Management)

MSc Professional Practice in Health - Dissertation top up

The graduate certificate is designed for students who are already in possession of an Honours degree in a health and social practice related subject and wish to study at graduate level (level 6).

This programme allows the building of a coherent award, bespoke to the student, beyond their graduate studies. The Grad Cert award is studied through a combination of physical or online lectures, seminar, workshop, and practical sessions, with the opportunity of tutorial supervisions as appropriate to the teaching content. You will be supported by a personal tutor throughout your studies. You will be able to use online reading lists, and you are encouraged to use subject-specific, online library resources, electronic databases, and periodicals. You will have access to Blackboard Ultra, our online learning platform, which will host online learning and collaboration where appropriate and house module and programme materials. Learning support is supported by our library services team and their substantial experience supporting and developing learning either face to face or online.

The award consists of 60 credits at level 6 and can be studied in 2-5 years flexibly around the needs of the student and is invoiced on a module credit basis. Entrants should be UK based and for certain modules hold a relevant health and social practice professional registration with bodies such as NMC or HCPC and normally have a Honours degree in a subject related to their registration status.

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Graduate Certificate Programme:

The Postgraduate Certificate is designed for students who are already in possession of an Honours degree in a health and social practice related subject and wish to study at graduate level 7.

This programme allows the building of a coherent award, bespoke to the student, beyond their graduate studies. The Postgraduate Certificate award is studied through a combination of physical or online lectures, seminar, workshop, and practical sessions, with the opportunity of tutorial supervisions as appropriate to the teaching content. You will be supported by a personal tutor throughout your studies. You will be able to use online reading lists, and you are encouraged to use subject-specific, online library resources, electronic databases, and periodicals. You will have access to Blackboard Ultra, our online learning platform, which will host online learning and collaboration where appropriate and house module and programme materials. Learning support is supported by our library services team and their substantial experience supporting and developing learning either face to face or online.

The award consists of 60 credits at level 7 and can be studied in 2-5 years flexibly around the needs of the student and is invoiced on a module credit basis.

Entrants should be UK based and for certain modules hold a relevant health and social practice professional registration with bodies such as NMC or HCPC and normally have a Honours degree in a subject related to their registration status.

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Postgraduate Certificate Programme:

Postgraduate Certificate - Professional Practice in Health

Modules previously available as single modules are now incorporated into our Professional Practice in Health programme where they can be used to build an award or studied alone using a single refined application process.

Alongside the core modules designed to underpin your progress, students will be encouraged to choose from our substantial suite of optional modules to build their own award in line with their development needs and stakeholder workforce development plans leading to a student-centred approach to learning.

If you wish to opt-out of any modules or leave your course you can access guidance here. 

Modules available for each programme in this framework can be found in the 'Modules' drop down below. We encourage you to contact Programme Leads for discussion about your individualised award via this email nsapplicantservices@northumbria.ac.uk.