MSc Public Health Practice

MSc/PGDip Public Health Practice: students registering for the Postgraduate Diploma will normally hold a previously accumulated credit volume of 360 level 3 credits, of which at least 120 will be at HE Level 3. MSc/PGDip Public Health Practice with SCPHN: students will normally hold a previously accumulated credit volume of 360 level 3 credits, of which at least 120 will be at HE Level 3, and be named on Part One or Part Two of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register (NMC 2006a).

English language requirements

IELTS minimum overall: 7.0

IELTS minimum by component: 7.0

All fees are subject to increase or review for subsequent academic years. Please note that not all visa routes permit part-time study and overseas students entering the UK on a Tier 4 visa will not be permitted to study on a part-time basis.

Funding

Students applying for the Postgraduate Diploma Public Health Practice/MSc Public Health Practice with SCPHN endorsement will also need to secure sponsorship from a community healthcare provider. Advertisements for sponsorship will be on NHS Jobs. There is a joint selection process between the providers and the University.

Compulsory Modules

Public Health Assessment

This module will provide you with the necessary evidence-based knowledge and skills to critically assess individual, family, community and population health needs in a public health context. It will also enable you to: integrate strategic approaches to the promotion and protection of the population’s health and wellbeing; critically evaluate impacts of epidemiology; act as a health promoter and educator; enhance and utilise skills for the surveillance and assessment of the population’s health and wellbeing.

Leadership and Innovation

This module allows you to develop effective skills that can be applied to the management of public health organisations and public health projects. Learning will take place in an interdisciplinary setting and there will be opportunities for shared learning.

Health Promotion: Partnership and Enablement

This module explores the theories underpinning effective health promotion and partnership working to enable people to work towards improving their health. The module will explore effective skills that can be applied to the facilitation of health-enhancing activities in public health professional contexts, the skills needed to raise awareness of health needs in acting to promote and protect health and wellbeing and the critical appraisal of policy issues that impact on service provision.

Research Design and Methodology

This module will assist you to: explore and examine the nature of the research enterprise and its relationship to the natural and social sciences which include health, education and/or social care; develop a critical understanding of the range of theoretical, methodological and ethical issues associated with the study of health, education and social care; examine the convention of dividing research into qualitative and quantitative approaches and their relationship to evidence-based policy and practice, the measurement of clinical effectiveness and the evaluation of educational practices; develop your own perspectives regarding research practice for education, health and/or social care.

Optional Modules

• Advanced Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning
• Advanced Assessment of the Newborn for Midwives
• Advanced Communication Skills
• Art of Learning and Teaching
• Blood-Borne Viruses
• Challenges in Pain Management
• Complex Health Assessment
• Concepts of Advanced Practice
• Decisions, Judgements and Risks
• Dissertation
• Early Intervention Work with Children, Parents and Carers
• Extending Professional Practice
• Family Interventions: Application to Practice for Psychosis
• Family Interventions in Psychosis: Widening Practice, Working with Larger Systems
• Framing Learning Through the Curriculum
• Health Promotion: Partnership and Enablement
• High-Risk Midwifery
• Independent Learning
• Innovating Clinical Practice
• Innovation and Learning
• Leadership and Innovation
• Introduction to Family Interventions in Serious Mental Illness
• Leading and Managing Long-Term Conditions Care
• Learning, Teaching and Assessing for the Practice Teacher
• Learning Through Professional Practice
• Mentorship
• Nurse Independent/Supplementary V300
• Palliative Care Interventions
• Personal and Professional Development
• Primary and Community Care Policy
• Professional Practice in SCPHN
• Public Health Assessment
• Professional Ethics in a Global Context
• Recognising Prior Learning
• Recognition: Engagement and Assessment of Patients with Common Mental Health Problems
• Re-Contextualising Learning
• Recovery: Evidence-Based Low Intensity Treatment for Common Mental Health Disorders
• Reflection: Working with Employment, Social and Healthcare Context
• Research Design and Methodology
• Research: Applied Methods for Health Sciences
• Respect: Values, Policy, Culture and Diversity
• Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults
• Sexual Health
• Specialist Practice Portfolio
• Supporting Practice Education
• The Science of Cancer
• Valuing Work-Based Learning

Programme Structure and Modules

Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health Practice

Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health Practice

MSc in Public Health Practice