Education for Healthcare Professionals

Learning and teaching takes many forms in practice and accounts for a sizable portion of any healthcare professionals role. This interprofessional postgraduate certificate is designed to enable healthcare professionals to facilitate learning and teaching in their practice. The course is facilitated through linking your practice to the university sessions. It prepares the professional to engage in learning and teaching in the workplace with colleagues, peers, other professionals and service users.



Work placement / study abroad

There is no placement associated with this course. However, it is recognised that the majority of students undertaking this course will be embedded in practice. Thus a lot of what you study at the university will be interpreted through the lens of its applicability to your clinical practice.



Blocks of teaching time in person, on the university campus, will occur across the academic year, normally delivered over six days each semester (structure can be subject to change). Further details will be provided during induction.



An equivalent amount of contact time is provided for those undertaking the course online.

Year one

Optional Modules

• Principles of Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Healthcare Practice

• Principles of Healthcare Education

• Learning and Teaching in Professional Practice

• Enhancing Learning and Teaching in the Practice Setting

Applicants must hold registration in a Healthcare related discipline.



Applicants must:

(a) have gained

(i) an Honours or non-Honours degree from a University of the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, from the Council for National Academic Awards, the National Council for Educational Awards, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council or from an institution of another country which is recognised as being of an equivalent standard;



or



(ii) an equivalent standard in a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma or an approved alternative qualification; [and] and (b) provide evidence of competence in written or spoken English (GCSE grade C or equivalent); or as an alternative to (a) (i) or (a) (ii) and/or (b): (c) In exceptional circumstances, where an individual can demonstrate evidence of successful completion of a minimum of level 6 study of 10 credits and above, OR the completion of a portfolio of written evidence demonstrating the meeting of graduate qualities (including subject-specific outcomes, as determined by the Course Committee) may be considered as an alternative entrance route.



Evidence of successful completion of level 6 study or above or that which is used to demonstrate graduate qualities may not be used for exemption against modules within the programme.



English Language Requirements

English language requirements for international applicants



The University has a standard English language entry requirement of IELTS 6.0 with the added provision that no individual band score (in the four bands of reading, listening, speaking and writing) be below 5.5.

Start Date: September 2025

Career options

The course is an attractive option for those wishing to develop their career. The primary function of the course is to enable you to develop a skill set in learning and teaching that will be immediately relevant to your current practice.



The course also enables you to progress to further study at postgraduate level



In addition, there are colleagues who practice in areas that have a substantial educational component and have found that having a qualification in education at a postgraduate level has been very beneficial.