Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Additional Field of Practice (SCPHN) (Health Visiting)

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

• Transfer knowledge and skills from one client group to a different context.
• Demonstrate competency in all domains of health visiting practice.
• Deliver the healthy child programme as part of your health visiting practice.
• Work in partnership with clients and their families to systematically identify their needs and priorities and make referrals to appropriate support services.
• Work collaboratively with members of the inter-professional team, statutory and voluntary agencies to provide services and minimise risk.
• Gain an insight into strategic planning and commissioning of services in health visiting practice.
• Critically reflect on your professional journey.
• Identify further continuing professional development needs.

You will set learning agreements with your practice teacher and receive regular feedback on your progress in achieving competency in the SCPHN domains.

For the 2023/24 curriculum, our PGT/CPD modules will continue to be delivered using hybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery (both live and asynchronous), as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. It is important to recognise the majority of modules contain face to face contact time and attendance at the University will be required.

Learning and teaching methods include:

• A minimum of 50 days in practice 
• Observation
• Participation and demonstration of skills 
• Professional conversation and reflection
• Clinical supervision
• Contribution to inter-professional forums in practice.

Attainment of practice proficiencies will be assessed by the practice teacher.

The assessment consists of two parts which must both be passed:

• Part A - Portfolio of evidence
• Part B - You will submit a reflective account which demonstrates your learning in the field of health visiting:
  • You will self evaluate your progress and identify your future development needs
  • You will critically analyse two specific practice experiences to evidence how you have achieved competency in all four domains of health visiting practice.         

Word count: 2,500

Take a look at the module reading list.