ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTITIONER MASTERS DEGREE APPRENTICESHIP

You will experience a range of assessment methods throughout the course, which have been carefully considered to enable you to demonstrate learning across all the pillars and principles of advanced practice.  

Formative and summative assessment strategies across the programme include written assignments, unseen examinations, case studies, practical examinations, group presentations and portfolios. 

You will complete one pathway which provides a range of core and optional modules, leading to 180 credits. These consist of 120 credits from core modules, and 60 credits from optional modules. You are required to complete the whole programme to achieve the MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Degree Apprenticeship award.  

Some of the optional modules are subject to entry requirements, and in some cases, professional, statutory or regulatory body requirements apply. 

If you would like to study any of the below as stand-alone modules - visit our CPD section

 

Why Study the Advanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship?

Undertaking this three-year programme requires commitment from you, but also from the UEA and from your employer. A three-way Commitment Statement is agreed and signed before you start the course and throughout the programme meetings are held between you, your employer and a UEA adviser. The time needed to study modules and carry out ‘off the job’ learning to develop your knowledge and skills in Advanced Clinical Practice are expected to be undertaken as part of your paid hours of work (20% of your employed hours as a minimum).

By signing up for the ACP Degree Apprenticeship, both you and your employer can plan the time you will need to be released from your usual work duties in advance, as well as being able to anticipate your future employment as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

 

Course Modules

In Years 1 and 2, apprentices must take the following core modules:

• Using Evidence to Lead & Advance Practice* (20 credits),
• Managing Yourself & Leading Others (20 credits), and
• Advanced Clinical Assessment (20 credits).

*We strongly recommend that you take Using Evidence to Lead and Advance Practice (which is one of the core modules) as the first module of the programme.

Apprentices will then select 60-credits worth of study from the following modules:

• Managing yourself and leading others (20 credits)
• Managing yourself and leading others (20 credits)
• Using evidence to lead and advance practice (20 credits)
• Advanced clinical assessment (20 credits)
• Advanced clinical assessment (20 credits)
• Acute clinical deterioration in adults (20 credits)
• Advanced communication (20 credits)
• Advancing practice in dementia care (20 credits)
• Advanced stoma care (40 credits)
• Clinical decision making (20 credits)
• Diabetes care (20 credits)
• Diagnostic interpretation (20 credits)
• Enhancing teaching learning and assessment in clinical education (20 credits)
• Foundations of end of life care (20 credits)
• Independent prescribing (hcpc) (40 credits)
• Independent prescribing (hcpc) (40 credits)
• Independent and supplementary prescribing (v300 independent and supplementary prescribing) (40 credits)
• Independent prescribing (v300 independent and supplementary prescribing) (40 credits)
• Long term conditions (20 credits)
• Mental health across the lifespan (20 credits)
• Minor illness (20 credits)
• Minor illness (20 credits)
• Minor injuries (20 credits)
• Newborn infant physical examination (40 credits)
• Paediatric examination and assessment (20 credits)
• Pathophysiology: a nature-nurture approach (20 credits)
• Policy implementation and evaluation (20 credits)
• Professional recognition portfolio (20 credits)
• Professional recognition portfolio (20 credits)
• Working with older people: biopsychosocial approaches (20 credits)
• End point assessment (20 credits)
• Service improvement project (40 credits)
• Service improvement project (40 credits)

In Year 3 apprentices will take the Service Improvement Project (40 credits) and the End Point Assessment Module (20 credits).

Prior to beginning the End Point Assessment module, apprentices are required to demonstrate that they have achieved all other programme requirements.

You must be a registered healthcare professional.

Undergraduate Degree Classification

Bachelors (Hons) degree - 2.2 or equivalent

Equivalent evidence of recent study in the last 5 years includes:

• Two or more degree level 6 CPD modules achieving 55% and above
• One or more Masters level 7 CPD modules achieving 50% and above

Degree Subject

Health Care subject

Additional Entry Requirements

You need to be working at least 30 hours per week as part of your contracted hours of work, and you must have employer support to undertake this apprenticeship as it is levy-funded. Therefore, your employer Apprenticeship Lead will need to confirm that you will be given the time and resources required for this programme.

Applicants will need to hold level 2 qualifications in English and Maths (GCSE Grade C minimum/ or equivalent).

Students for Whom English is a Foreign Language

We welcome applications from students whose first language is not English or those whose degree was not taught in English. To ensure such students benefit fully from postgraduate study, we require evidence of proficiency in English, including achievement of a certain standard on the written element of the test. Our usual entry requirements are as follows:

IELTS 7.0 (minimum 6.5 in all components)

PTE: 67 (minimum 67 in all components)

All scores must be less than two years old.

Other tests, including Cambridge English exams and the Trinity Integrated Skills in English are also accepted by the university. The full list of accepted tests can be found at our Accepted English Language Tests page.

INTO UEA run pre-sessional English courses which can be taken prior to the start of your course. For further information and to see if you qualify, please contact intopre-sessional@uea.ac.uk (INTO UEA Norwich).

Programme Start Dates

This course is open to UK applicants only, the last September intake for this course will be in September 2022. After that, including January 2023 onwards, the annual intake will be in January each year.

This course is open to UK applicants only, the annual intake for this course is in September each year.

How to Apply

Apprenticeships are levy-funded and subsequently require employer support. The apprenticeship fee set for the MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship is £12,000.

Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University. However, before applying, applicants to the Advanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship programme should speak to their workplace Apprenticeship Lead in addition to their line manager, to ensure that funding is available, and that the workplace is able to commit to you undertaking a three-year programme.

To apply please use our online application form.

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