Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Advanced Clinical Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship)

What will I be doing?

Current circumstances, and potential future changes in government advice, mean that we may need to vary the methods of teaching and/or assessment during the forthcoming academic year.

The emphasis on work-based learning rather than classroom teaching distinguishes this course from more traditional taught courses. The co creation and collaboration between the workplace and academic facilitators is innovative and embraces the ethos of overall course philosophy and design. A learning facilitator will be employed with a particular remit to work with practice-based assessors and mentors in order to assure the quality of clinical and work-based learning/assessments.

This course has a strong clinical focus throughout all modules with specialist pathways being offered in: Mental Health, Primary Care and Critical Care, in addition to the Generic Adult pathway.

The programme is taught using face to face teaching in lectures and seminars, action learning sets, the use of online teaching, and practical sessions using plinth rooms and the high fidelity simulation suite.

Apprentices will be taught by an expert multi-professional team, many of whom work in clinical practice as Advanced Clinical Practitioners alongside their academic commitments.

Assessment strategies have been developed to reflect the ethos and learning aims and objectives of individual modules and may include:

- Self assessment
- Peer assessment
- Practice-based assessments: Including case based discussions; integrated systematic health assessment records, DOPs, core and bespoke skills.
- Critical reflective commentaries
- Portfolio of evidence
- Viva Voce
- OSCA
- Poster presentations
- Service delivery and organisational assessment and redesign
- Assessed essays
- Client management plans
- Written reports
- Unseen examinations

Equivalent qualifications

English language requirements are shown on individual course pages. Generally, this is shown as an IELTS grade, however we accept a range of equivalent qualifications. 

As a general guide:

For undergraduate courses we require IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum 5.5 in each component) or equivalent

For postgraduate courses, we require IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum 5.5 in each component) or equivalent

For the International Foundation Year, we require IELTS 4.5 (with a minimum 4.0 in each component) in UKVI IELTS for UKVI (Academic)

The approved equivalent qualifications list includes the following: 

Secure English Language Tests (SELTs) 

University of Salford English language courses

Regional-based qualifications

Majority English Speaking Countries as deemed by UKVI

Medium of English Institutions

Applicants who require a Student Route visa to study in the UK may require evidence of a Secure English Language test rather than an examination or qualification due to visa requirements, as deemed by the UK Government Home Office, Visa and Immigration (UKVI).

Before you apply

Please read all of the information on this page before applying for your research degree and make sure you have the following supporting documents to hand:

• Degree certificates
• Transcripts
• English language qualifications
• Passport details (required for International applicants)
• Research proposal

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