MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Part time)
Key Details
- Attendance
- Part Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Science
- Course Length
- 3 years
- Course Start Date
- January 2025
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Why you should choose us
Course Overview
The Advanced Professional Practice programme reflects national and international benchmarks for advanced level professional practice for the healthcare workforce, while supporting you to build a personalised qualification around your own advancing professional practice role. In addition to four core modules, you'll choose from a wide range of optional modules, allowing you to tailor the programme to the context of your own professional practice and achieve optimal professional development. The programme is accredited by the HEE Centre for Advancing Practice and is therefore closely aligned to the Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).
Most modules are available as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) standalone modules Visit our CPD section for further information about individual CPD modules.
We consider advanced practice to be a level of practice, which can be achieved across a wide range of roles and settings within healthcare. Therefore, this programme is suitable for health professionals working in a wide variety of settings living and working in the UK. As the programme requires learners to be assessed in practice and to undertake a service improvement project within their clinical setting, you must have the support of your employing organisation and a commitment by them that they will meet the assessment and governance requirements of the programme during your period of study.
Key attributes of the programme include:
A flexible approach to study: innovative and accessible online and blended learning and teaching methods will sustain your interest and motivation, while giving you control over your learning experience.
Community of learning: we embrace and encourage diverse professional perspectives and backgrounds to promote an inclusive and participatory approach to learning.
Underpinned by the four pillars of advanced practice: a range of core and optional modules are available to enhance practitioners’ overall level of practice, whatever their role.
Individual focus: evaluate and advance your practice by recognising and addressing areas of limitation, building on strengths, and reflecting on and applying your learning experiences to your own professional role and context.
Career-enhancing: gain the knowledge, insight and skills to progress your career to the next level, demonstrating your value to your employer and meeting the ever-changing demands of modern healthcare practice.
Student support: to enable you to achieve your full potential, we offer a wide range of support for your academic study including a range of advisers and specialists within the school and programme team, and the University’s dedicated student support service.
Accreditations
As an HEE-accredited programme, if you are working in an advanced practice role, completion of the MSc Advanced Professional Practice allows you to register with HEE as an Advanced Practitioner. Dependent on your role within practice and the modules selected, there is also potential for application for credentialing with external bodies. Credentialling is available via the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Study and Modules
Employability
After the Course
Whether you are looking for promotion or to advance your knowledge and skills more generally, complete our programme and you'll walk away armed with the academic and practice-based evidence you require to support your professional progression. You'll be able to demonstrate learning across the pillars of advanced practice, with the emphasis dependent on the pathway you have chosen and the modules you have selected.
As an HEE-accredited programme, if you are working in an advanced practice role, completion of the MSc Advanced Professional Practice allows you to register with HEE as an Advanced Practitioner.
Careers
A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.
Entry Requirements
- Degree Classification
- Bachelors (Hons) degree - 2.2 or equivalent within the last 5 years
- Degree Subject
- Health Care subject
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 7.0 overall (minimum 6.5 in all components)
Test dates should be within 2 years of the course start date.
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:
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- Intakes
- This course is open to UK and International applicants. The intakes for this course are January and September each year .
Additional Information or Requirements
Equivalent evidence of recent study in the last 5 years includes
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Two or more degree level 6 CPD modules achieving 55% and above
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One or more Masters level 7 CPD modules achieving 50% and above
Current Registered Healthcare professional (including Nurses, Midwives, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists) with a minimum of 2 years post registration practice experience, working at Band 5 and above in a suitable clinical facing role
You must submit a Memorandum of Understanding at the time of application. Your manager will need to confirm that you will be given the time and resources required for the programme.
Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
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Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2024/25 are:
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UK Students: £9,975 (full time)
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International Students: £21,200 (full time)
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students).
We estimate living expenses at £1,023 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here.
Scholarships and Bursaries
The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships; please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
You can find information regarding additional costs associated on our Fees and finance webpages.
How to Apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form.
The Application deadline for January 2025 will be announced shortly.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk
International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students section of our website.