MSc Advanced Leadership for Professional Practice (Social Work)

This course is particularly relevant for qualified social workers practicing in UK adult and mental health services. You will:

• Develop the professional knowledge and leadership skills needed for advanced level practice in social work whilst studying alongside healthcare professionals in nursing and allied healthcare.
• Choose from a range of elective units which include mental health and adult safeguarding. See the nursing, midwifery and social work CPD page for our full range of units.
• Learn when it suits you with our part-time and full-time study options.
• Enhance your understanding of leadership, change management and research for practice, with our mandatory units.
• Due to the legal and policy content of some units, this course is primarily suited to UK-registered social workers. International students may wish to consider our MA Social Work course.

Our MSc Advanced Leadership for Professional Practice course gives social workers the opportunity to study alongside colleagues in nursing and allied healthcare, to develop the knowledge and skills they need to enhance their practice and prepare for leadership roles and change management.

Units will comprise of compulsory units in leadership, change management, evidence-based practice and a dissertation. Elective units can be selected from a range of options with several units specifically relevant to mental health practice and adult safeguarding.

You will study content that reflects professional, UK-wide government and international benchmarks for advanced level practice in health and social care, enhancing your suitability for revalidation.

This includes contemporary knowledge and skills in practice, leadership and collaborative practice, improving quality and developing practice, and developing self and others.

You will learn how to develop efficient and ethical ways of working that offer a better quality of life and care by placing service users and carers at the centre of decision-making and service redesign.

Full entry requirements

International students must demonstrate English proficiency through a secure and approved testing system.

We ask for English language proof if you are from non-majority English speaking countries (a list of majority English speaking countries, as defined by the UK Home Office, can be found here ).

Specifically, we require a minimum of:

• IELTS: 7.0, with a score of 6.5 or above in each component;
• TOEFL iBT:100 overall (25 in all subscores);
• GCSE English Grade C.

Please note that we will only consider applications where evidence is provided at the point of application that the minimum has been achieved.

See further information about requirements for your country .