Health and Social Practice MSc
3 year part-time | September start
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The programme reflects contemporary health and social practice, and you will learn alongside other practitioners from a variety of professional backgrounds. This level 7 programme will enable you to develop understanding of theory related to your field of health or social practice and explore the impact of this within your organisation, team and as an individual situated in practice. It will enable you to enhance your practice at the same time as gaining an award. On completion you will be awarded a MSc Health and Social Practice.
The programme provides a flexible method of study for you to that fits around your health or social practice role. Its flexible design will enable to step on and off the framework as you progress between points.
The award framework has been created to provide a cohesive student choice driven pathway of awards aligned with career progression in Health & Social practice. This will support Increased demand in health and social practice for more complex decision making, resulting in the requirement of an advancing level of practice within the workforce and the level of care provided to patients or clients.
This award framework has been designed in collaboration with health and social practice stakeholders and students. This innovative framework is aimed and registered health and social practice professionals who wish to consolidate or develop their practice in line with their career aspirations.
The programme provides a flexible method of study for you that fits around your health or social practice role.
To enter the programme you are required to have a degree at 2:2 or above or equivalent and appropriate registration as a health or social practice professional with an appropriate licensing board / health department. Other qualifications, equivalent professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be considered on an individual basis.
If you are looking for our bachelors courses than take a look at our Health and Social Care BSc (Hons)
For our postgraduate courses take a look at our MSc in Learning Disability Nursing Science, MSC in Mental Health Nursing
**Please find a link here to a Guidance Document to assist with the application process. Please read over this document before applying.**
We are keen to work with partners to ensure the most effective and efficient delivery models that meet your individual needs so please contact us directly to discuss your interest and explore collaboration arrangements in more detail.
For any individuals with programme enquiries please contact NSApplicantServices@northumbria.ac.uk
For organisations with business enquiries please contact businessenquiry@northumbria.ac.uk
For applicants who wish to undertake V300 (non-medical prescribing) in their first semester of their Health and Social Practice Framework programme, please click on apply now and choose the application for the correct starting month. Once your application is complete we will contact you in order to confirm whether or not you have been allocated a place.
To discover more about the Non-Medical Prescribing course requirements please visit the below course pages:
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) – Level 6
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) – Level 7
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) - Recognition of Prior Learning - Level 6
Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) - Recognition of Prior Learning - Level 7
*subject to cohort viability, some modules may have additional application requirements, e.g. non-medical prescribing. Programme leads will direct enquiries accordingly to ensure you can meet practice engagement and assessment requirements.
Level of Study
Postgraduate
Mode of Study
3 years Part Time
Department
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Location
Coach Lane Campus, Northumbria University
City
Newcastle
Start
September 2025
Fees
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Modules
Module Information
Alongside the base modules in year one ‘Critical Evaluation of Contemporary Practice’ and year two ‘Research Approaches and Methods in Health and Social Practice’ that are designed to underpin your development, our Flexible Award Building Study System (FABSS) encourages students to study from our substantial suite of CPD modules with a clinical, education or leadership & management focus. This facilitates students to build their own award in line with their development needs and stakeholder workforce development plans, leading to a student-centred approach to learning.
Staff draw on years of health and social practice experience in their field, bringing their expertise to the classroom with a richness seldom seen in programmes of this nature. Our staff maintain close relationships with our stakeholders and specialist network involvement, bringing this contemporary and ‘real world’ evidence to their teaching practice.
You will benefit from state-of-the-art teaching and practice facilities, and from an immersive environment dedicated to the study of healthcare as your module choices dictate using simulation and immersive technologies as appropriate to your learning.
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You will learn how to search and retrieve relevant literature developing an understanding of what constitutes evidence presented in the literature, for example in preparation for the academic assessments where you are required to utilise literature academically. Learning and teaching by experienced academics emphasises research and this underpins programme content. You will be able to critically appraise your learning and knowledge development during the programme through self, tutor and peer formative review.
The programme team and module tutors will facilitate a range of learning and teaching strategies such as action learning, workshops, seminars and lectures to help you develop knowledge, skills and methods of enquiry so you can learn to appraise and use the research. You also get the opportunity to enhance key skills in a variety of practical sessions dependent on your module selection complementing taught sessions and practice experience.
You can then make the most of opportunities that such roles will bring. You will be encouraged to work to the vision of the organisation that is your employer.
This award works alongside the organisational structure of NHS acute and primary care services giving you the confidence to progress in your career and either consolidate your role, move into more senior positions or study further as your career aspirations direct.
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