PgCertPerson-Centred Practice (Advancing Care Home Practice)

The uniqueness of this programme is that, learners can craft their own pathway on a programme that has an underpinning philosophy of personhood and personcentredness. This programme recognises care home practice as a specialism in its own right. It supports experienced practitioners with clinical or management perspectives or roles engage in transformative learning practices. The aim is to advance care home practice through the utilisation of research, other sources of knowledge and a range of practice development and quality improvement methodologies.

Learners on this programme will:

• Develop a critical understanding of the connection between theories, concepts and principles underpinning person-centredness and their application to care home practice.
• Critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise different sources of evidence and knowledge contributing to the advancement of safe and effective person-centred care home practice.
• Demonstrate leadership in making an identifiable contribution to change and the development of person-centred cultures providing quality of care for people, families and communities within care home contexts.
• Critically explore value judgments and complex decisions within the current health and social care landscape in conjunction with professional, ethical and legal frameworks underpinning autonomous and collaborative practice. 
• Influence and enable the transformative processes of personal and professional development through engagement, facilitation and evaluation of person-centred teaching and learning approaches.
• Develop responses to complex health and social care challenges experienced by people, families and communities by integrating creative approaches to promoting health and wellbeing. 
• Engage and facilitate personal and professional development of self and others through critical thinking, reflective practice and transformative, communicative spaces.

• We have long-standing experience in preparing practitioners to work in communities; at master's level; through work-based and inter-disciplinary learning, supported by robust online learning platforms.
• We have a reputation at QMU for innovative curriculum design, being supportive and responsive to learners and extensive online resources.
• Our conceptualization of person-centredness is consistent with the WHO Framework of ‘people-centred healthcare'.

Graduates have taken up advanced specialist practice and leadership roles within their specialist field of practice.

The University requires all students to demonstrate sufficient academic English language proficiency to undertake and derive full benefit from their chosen programme of study. This page acts a guide to help you meet the English language requirements for your chosen course.

Students who are not a national of a Majority English Speaking Country, as recognised by the UKVI, must meet the English language requirements of their intended programme of study.

The course is 50% theory and 50% practice based. You must have access to a practice placement, a Practice Supervisor, and a Practice Assessor. 

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Applying online

You will find all our degree programmes listed on our course information pages. To apply for your chosen programme, click on the “Apply for thisCourse” button which appears top right on each course page.

Each programme will list the entry requirements, available awards, study modes and available start dates.

Select your programme and preferred start date and begin your application.

Application form

On our application form please input your basic details. Be careful spelling your email address as this is how we will contact you about your application in future.

As part of your application on the form, you will need to write a personal statement specific to the course that you are applying. This is your chance to sell yourself through highlighting your experience, suitability and motivators for wanting to join this course at QMU.

You will have the chance to upload supporting documents as part of your application. This is an important part of the admissions process and without seeing supporting documents, tutors will not have enough information to make a decision on your application.

The form allows you to save your application should you wish to complete it later.

Once complete you can submit your application to us and you will receive an automatic acknowledgement email confirming receipt of your application. You will also receive a QMU applicant ID number which you should keep a note of and quote in any correspondence to QMU.

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Supporting documents

As part of your application you will need to submit to us:

• A copy of your degree certificate
• A copy of your academic transcripts
• One or two letters of reference, depending on the course. If you finished your degree within the last three years, we ask for an academic reference. References must be signed, dated and written on letter headed paper or sent directly from a professional email account. You can find more information on how to get references here.

If your documents are in any language other than English then they will need to be accompanied by a formal certified translation into English, by either the awarding institution or a sworn translator.

Students whose first language is not English are required to provide us with proof of their English language ability. More information on how to do this can be found on our English language requirements page.

If you have not yet graduated and don’t have your degree certificate, this can be sent to us at a later date.

Interviews

Some of our courses require interviews as part of the selection process. If your course requires an interview it will be noted on the course page and if successfully chosen we will contact you by email with further instructions and information. Where applicants are unable to attend an interview on campus, it may be possible to arrange a telephone or skype interview.

Deadlines

A number of our most popular courses have set a closing deadline for applications. Where a deadline has been set this will be detailed on the individual course page.

Decisions

You should expect a decision on your application within four weeks of submitting a fully completed application with supporting documents. Where programmes have set closing dates with an equal consideration deadline, decisions will be notified within four weeks of the closing date.