Overview
You will be an experienced health and/or social care professional working in an education setting with leadership responsibilities. Healthcare education leaders are required to work effectively and collaboratively across discipline and organisational boundaries, this unit will explore current theories of leadership, and leadership skills and roles within the context of healthcare education.
You will analyse approaches to leadership within healthcare education, explore the principles of interdisciplinary working, including knowledge of other healthcare roles, collaboration with other professions, and communication within teams. One focus will be on quality assurance and the role of the leader in ensuring excellent student experience and outcomes through high quality educational provision. The unit will allow you to explore self-leadership, analysing your own your own personal working, values, role within teams, and leadership style.
Course Details
What You’ll Learn
This unit is designed for professionals eager to make a transformative impact in healthcare education. You’ll explore essential leadership theories and frameworks, gaining the skills needed to foster effective interprofessional collaboration and team dynamics.
This course emphasizes self-leadership, guiding you through reflective practices to examine your values, beliefs, and personal approaches to leadership. Engage with the latest research on leadership and interprofessional collaboration.
You’ll also gain expertise in leading quality assurance in educational settings, empowering you to elevate standards and inspire excellence in healthcare education. Join us to become a skilled leader ready to advance the future of healthcare education.
Standalone unit 20 credits Level 7.
Why Study This Unit at HSU?
As a unique Health Sciences University, HSU has developed a wide range of educational opportunities for healthcare professionals. This course has been developed in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders with a specific focus on practice educators within the healthcare sector. You will be learning alongside fellow educators across the sector on an interprofessional basis.
Unit Breakdown
How this course is taught 
Prior to and during this unit, you are encouraged to undertake self-directed learning to ensure you are familiar with the requirements for education and training within your own workplace. This may involve discussions with colleagues with educational roles within the organisation, and other stakeholders such as practitioners; their supervisor/s, mentors and students.
Reflective practice is key to the learning for this unit, you are encouraged to explore your own education and training, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of your educator role and share experiences with student colleagues.
This unit will be delivered through blended learning, with both time in the classroom and online with both synchronous and asynchronous delivery of content. You will be required to undertake group work, case-based presentations and self-directed learning. Self-directed, autonomous learning, self-appraisal and reflection on your own learning and professional development needs will be central to this unit. You will be guided and supported to critically evaluate and reflect on your practice alongside the critical appraisal of the service provision.
Entry Requirements
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There are many benefits to studying at Health Sciences University, from our expertise and history in teaching health sciences, to our state-of-the-art facilities, on-site clinical training, and of course our location on the beautiful Bournemouth coast.
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