Advanced Clinical Practice Degree Apprenticeship MSc

Teesside University

This degree apprenticeship enables the apprentice to develop their personal and professional autonomy, providing them with a comprehensive and critical understanding of professional practice, ensuring that they are fit for future challenges within health and social care.The apprenticeship is flexible for multi-professional individuals from all areas of advanced practice within acute and primary care sectors – apprentices access the same core modules. The negotiated competencies within the first-year portfolio module gives the apprentice flexibility to ensure maximum relevance and application to their clinical area. The apprentice develops their advanced and core transferable skills relevant to their area of practice – they develop their advanced clinical decision-making skills, using evidence-based approaches to care, lead innovation and practice, and develop high levels of autonomy.The apprenticeship is developed in partnership with key stakeholders from practice and delivered by an experienced team with knowledge and academic credibility both within and outside of the University. This multi-professional team has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modules of this nature for healthcare professions at all academic levels. The apprentice studies this course on a part-time basis over three years. They are supported through their studies by an academic supervisor and they also need to identify a practice supervisor. To access the apprenticeship route the apprentice must be working in a healthcare setting with relevant registration and be sponsored by their organisation.