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Postgraduate Diploma
Collegiate Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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Postgraduate Diploma
Collegiate Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
Postgraduate Diploma
Collegiate Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
2 years
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Course summary
Attain a recorded professional award as a specialist practitioner of health visiting or student nursing
Undertake assessments to have your qualification recorded with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Identify and meet the needs of children and families as a health visitor or student nurse
Build on your existing knowledge as a registered professional nurse
Learn practical and theoretical skills to excel as a valuable and respected community health specialist
This course is aimed at post-registration nurses or midwives who wish to become specialist practitioners. You'll develop your professional nursing practice and become a registered health vistor or student is course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Graduates are eligible to apply to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visitor or School Nurse.
You must be registered with the NMC in order to practise as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in the UK.
To access the full course and gain the NMC recognised qualifications, you need to be sponsored by an employing NHS organisation (hence have NHS contract for the length of the course).
How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.
In this course, you'll study to attain valuable credentials as a specialist practitioner, either as a health visitor or student nurse. You can also complete the assessments for the prescribing from the community practitioner formulary to become a nurse prescriber. The course is 50% practice and 50% theory - you'll work under the close supervision of the SCPHN teaching team in each instance, who utilise dynamic approaches to teaching practice.
You learn through
Lectures, seminars and workshops
Simulated role plays
Case studies
Client stories
Conducting real consultations under exam conditions
Producing written records of consultations
Future careers
Completing the course enables you to be registered with the NMC as a registered specialist community public health nurse - as either a health visitor or school nurse. It also enables you to be annotated on the NMC register as a community practitioner nurse prescriber.
This course prepares you for a career in
A specialist role - working with early interventions, homeless, asylum seekers, safeguarding, looked after children (LAC), domestic violence (DV), child sexual exploitation (CSE)
Practice education – community practice educator, mentor
Family nurse partnership nursing (FNP)
Counselling
Sexual health advice
Management opportunities
Overseas with the voluntary overseas service
You will normally have: 120 credits at level 6 (or pending results prior to the course starting); Current registration on part 1 (Nursing) or part 2 (Midwifery) of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register; Enhanced level of disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check; Self-declaration of good health and character in line with the NMC requirements; Opportunity and managerial support to access an appropriate placement overseen by a Practice Teacher; Ability to demonstrate the potential to practice at specialist level on completion of the programme.
Students living in
Domestic
£9,250 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Students from EU
This course is not open to international students who require a Tier 4 (General) student visa to study in the UK.
Students from International
This course is not open to international students who require a Tier 4 (General) student visa to study in the UK.
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