Second Year
Developing Critical Appraisal Skills – 15 Credits	This module takes an evidence-based approach to develop skills in literature searching, reviewing and critiquing health and social care research.
Public Health and Wellbeing – 15 Credits	Promoting the health and wellbeing of the individual requires an understanding of the wider issues, including environment and work safety issues, heredity, lifestyle, education, social economic factors and media influence.
Management and Leadership in Health and Social Care – 15 Credits	This module introduces the student to both the theory and practical background to leadership and management. This module will cover the following: leadership – motivation, personal power, using team skills, demonstrating trust, mentoring, management – delegation, prioritisation, team roles and responsibilities, resource management, change management, clinical governance – definition, impact, operation of clinical governance, examples from practice and health care policy and local impact – NSFs, NICE guidelines, current health policies and their implementation locally.
Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours Portfolio 2 – Profession Specific - 30 Credits	To provide evidence that learners have successful completed all skills identified in the portfolio with supportive evidence. To show the importance of reflection in the workplace and to demonstrate continuous personal and professional development.
Core Role Specific: Each student must pick one from the following:
Acute Intervention and Rehabilitation (Nursing Pathway) – 15 Credits	Caring for the individual receiving acute intervention is a core function of the healthcare worker. This module builds upon the learning gained in the Biopsychosocial Science module, Person Centred Care and Management and leadership in Health and Social Care. It prepares learners for their role in care of the individual who is acutely unwell and before, during and after an acute intervention and associated rehabilitation. Apprentices will need to achieve 2300 hours of clinical work time to APEL into the top-up
Introduction to Occupational Therapy (Occupational Therapy Pathway) – 15 Credits	This module will introduce learners to the core knowledge and skills of occupational therapy, enabling them to develop an understanding of the occupational nature of human beings. Apprentices will explore how people engage in their occupations and what influences their performance of occupations. Students will draw on their experiences in order to develop an understanding of the occupational nature of human beings and the theoretical framework that underpins occupational therapy.
Introduction to Speech and Language Therapy (Speech and Language Therapy Pathway) - 15 Credits	Apprentices will explore the key components of human communication (speech including phonology and articulation, language development and linguistics, pragmatics, total communication) and how they typically develop. They will be introduced to the concept of clinical phonetics and linguistics which will be covered in greater detail in Years 3 and 4. Students will draw on their experience in order to develop an understanding of the breadth of human communication and the theoretical framework that underpins speech and language therapy. Apprentices need to attend 8 taught sessions over the summer period and undertake a 2 week full-time placement in the last year to APEL into the top-up
End Point Assessment Module - 40 Credits	An apprentice cannot achieve their apprenticeship unless they take and pass the End Point Assessment (EPA) and will not be able to continue with their educational journey onto a registered Degree Apprenticeship professional registered programmes. The EPA module is designed to test individual apprentices understanding of the learning learnt on the Assistant Practitioner apprenticeship. Apprentices are required to demonstrate that they have the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours required of all Assistant Practitioners who undertake clinical interventions in a variety of practice settings. The EPA plan is stipulated by the Institute for Apprenticeships an Technical Education's (IfATE) national occupational standard for the Assistant Practitioner. Professional Discussion with Independent Assessor underpinned by Portfolio of Evidence 90 minutes Face to Face or via Video Conferencing in apprentices workplace with an Independent Assessor Observation of Practice 90 minute observation 45 minute of follow up questions Face to Face in Apprentice workplace by an Independent Assessor

First Year
Person Centred Care 2 - 60 Credits	This module prepares learners to participate in practice-based learning, reasoning and decision-making to deliver person-centred care. Learners will develop confidence and competence in the range of enhanced nursing proficiencies and nursing procedures. Learners will develop and demonstrate emergent leadership, collaborating with service users and other professions to make decisions about how person-centred care is provided to an individual or small group of people.
The Therapeutic Practitioner - 20 Credits	This module allows learners to review and appraise the resources, interventions and therapies at the disposal of registered nurses and to select appropriately from these to provide safe and effective care in the complex situations that nursing can operate within. The delivery of any intervention or therapy requires careful consideration in terms of both the evidence base for that intervention and safeguarding people’s autonomy in the decision-making process. The module will draw upon experiences of working with people with a range of physical and mental health co-morbidities.
Relationship-Based Practitioner - 20 Credits	Relationship-based practice is central to the provision of safe and compassionate person-centred care. This module comprehensively prepares learners in relationship-based practices that provide the foundations for person-centred nursing care. Learners will develop proficiency in approaches to skilled communication and relationship management (Annexe A Section 2), NMC standards and approaches for providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions (Annexe A, Section 3) Learners will consider how these approaches apply in different situations and fields of practice.
Advocacy, Activism and Resistance - 20 Credits	Advocacy is a central tenet of the philosophies and practices of nursing. Drawing on the principles of social justice, this module encourages learners to critically consider what it means to be an advocate for people who are seeking to access and use health services, and to explore strategies to constructively and actively resist those practices and policies that have detrimental consequences for groups of people.

Second Year
Person-Centred Care 3 (Adult Nursing) - 60 Credits	This module prepares leaners to lead, manage and coordinate care during practice-based learning experiences. Learners will develop independence in the range of enhanced adult nursing proficiencies and procedures. Student will demonstrate critical, reflective and person-centred leadership when working with others, and demonstrate proficiency in managing the complexities and ambiguities of challenging and conflicting episodes in adult nursing care.
Person Centred Care 3 (Mental Health Nursing) - 60 Credits	This module prepares learners to lead, manage and coordinate care during practice-based learning experiences. Learners will develop independence in the range of enhanced mental health nursing proficiencies and procedures. Learners will demonstrate critical, reflective and person-centred leadership when working with others, and demonstrate proficiency in managing the complexities and ambiguities of challenging and conflicting episodes of mental health care.
Participatory Research for Service Improvement - 20 Credits	Monitoring and evaluating the quality of care practices and services, and making subsequent service changes are fundamental for improving the safety and quality of care. Improvements in care and treatment that enhance the outcomes that people experience can be transformative when the people whose experiences matter most are involved in the design of the service. This module offers learners the opportunity to work closely with people with lived experience, citizens and service users to consult on, develop, co-design and lead participatory quality improvement initiatives. In partnership with people, learners will select questions and issues that are important to people, and co-design a proposal to address these issues in partnership with people with lived experience, quality and education leads in partner organisations and the support of an academic supervisor.
The Autonomous Practitioner (Adult Nursing) - 20 Credits	This module consolidates learning around compassionate, clinical leadership in adult nursing. Learners will consider the accountabilities and human consequences associated with their own and others’ leadership decisions at the point of care. They will be supported to explore the complexities and uncertainties of clinical situations. Learners will critically examine how the ‘quality’ of care is defined, measured and audited, and the impact of these measurements on the lived experiences of people. They will reflect upon their own professional development needs and proactively plan their own development.
The Autonomous Practitioner (Mental Health Nursing) - 20 Credits	This module consolidates learning around compassionate, clinical leadership in mental health nursing. Learners will consider the accountabilities and human consequences associated with their own and others’ leadership decisions at the point of care. They will be supported to explore the complexities and uncertainties of clinical situations. Learners will critically examine how the ‘quality’ of care is defined, measured and audited, and the impact of these measurements on the lived experiences of people. They will reflect upon their own professional development needs and proactively plan their own development.
Supervising Learning in Clinical Practice - 20 Credits	Preparation in the principles of supervision and feedback ensures that students are ready to act as practice supervisors and are ready to learn to become practice assessors at the point of registration. Learners will consider approaches to clinical and practice supervision and how these contribute to the development of peers and learners. Learners will have the opportunity to supervise and coach less experienced students in both practice and university-based/simulated setting (e.g. in Person-Centred Care 1 and selected other modules.) Learners will enhance and develop awareness of cultural competence, processes of constructive feedback, reflective appraisal and formative and summative assessment. They will be encouraged to develop approaches to coaching and supervision whilst considering how to challenge circumstances that impact upon the quality of a learning environment.

First year
HS801 – Professional reasoning in practice (30 credits)	All health professionals are required to demonstrate sound decision-making skills in the process of developing appropriate outcomes. This module is designed to introduce and further develop your understanding of the concepts of reasoning, problem-solving and decision making, in preparation for placement. You will develop your professional reasoning within this module and will have opportunities to further develop this reasoning within placement.
HS805 – Developing professional skills through therapy and occupation (45 credits)	This module is designed to focus specifically on the practice and skills required for occupational therapy. You will draw on previous learning and undertake two practice placements, to further develop your understanding and apply skills in areas specific to occupational therapy practice. Note: Practice placement – Initiate (6 weeks full-time) and Practice placement – Lead (8 weeks full-time) are included within this module.
HS240 – Professional enquiry (15 credits)	This module focuses on facilitating an understanding of evidence in its widest sense; evidence and using a variety of sources leading to research design, analysis and synthesis. This module will focus on the development of literature searching, synthesising literature within a critical review and identification of a specific topic for professional enquiry. The development of learner understanding of research will be facilitated through the use of practical experience in collecting and handling a variety of data. The implications of the nature and overall quality of professional research literature as potential ‘evidence’ to inform practice will be considered.
HS806 – Collaboration and Leadership in Service Enhancement (30 credits)	All staff within health, social care and other practice settings have a responsibility to contribute to the governance processes in place to ensure the quality, efficiency and effectiveness within current service delivery. You will draw on previous learning and placement experiences to develop your leadership skills in relation to enhancing service delivery, within a local and regional context. The skills and learning from this module will be further developed in the next module ‘Advancing Occupational Therapy Practice’ where you will extend your knowledge to understand and apply national and international trends and contexts.

Second year
HS807 Advancing Occupational Therapy practice in Diverse Communities (30 credits)	The contemporary practice context for the occupational therapy profession is constantly evolving. Legislation, policy, research evidence and ethics shape and change the profession overtime, as well as at times presenting new opportunities in terms of the way the profession works and/or who we work with. It is therefore essential that you are equipped with the knowledge and skills to work as a pro-active and innovative professional who can respond to the context in which you work. Within this module, you will draw upon the learning gained during ‘Working in partnership to lead and enhance practice’ module and practice placements, to further develop your understanding of the legal, political and cultural contexts in which occupational therapy practice occurs.
HS340 – Professional enquiry: Research in practice (30 credits)	This module is designed to extend learners ’ learning in relation to evidence-based practice and research and culminates in the individual preparation and submission of an in-depth literature review and research proposal or service improvement project proposal. Learners are expected to undertake the work associated with this module in an autonomous fashion, under the supervision of allocated supervisor. Learners are required to initiate contact with their allocated tutor in order to facilitate this supervision process.
HS808 – Becoming a Professional: Professional skills (30 credits)	This module including the final placement will require you to manage your own learning and consolidate skills for practice. Practice placement - Manage requires demonstration of a highly professional level of skills and the use of critical evaluation and reflection to continually develop practice from a robust evidence base fully engaging with the practice setting and its broader context. You will be required to demonstrate evidence of competent practice and readiness for transition from student to therapist. You will be required to share your knowledge and skills reflecting on areas for further development. You will demonstrate your learning as you progress through the placement using the placement assessment document and summarise your achievements using a continuing professional development activity (HCPC, 2012) which has been agreed and negotiated with your educator. Note: Practice placement – Manage (10 week full-time) is included in this module.
HS809 – Autonomous Practitioner (Occupational Therapy) (30 credits)	This final module provides opportunities to explore the concepts of the transformative process from competent student to novice occupational therapy practitioner. You will consolidate your learning over the duration of the programme, from both a theoretical and practical perspective, in order to prepare for employment as an Occupational Therapist.

First Year
Study and Lifelong Learning – 15 Credits	This module explores the concept of communication and workplace learning. The application of listening and effective communication skills is directed toward building trust and addressing the real concerns of patients. The module addresses reading, essay writing, key literacy skills, digital literacy, literature searching and written communication skills.
Biopsychosocial Science – 30 Credits	This module is designed to introduce and develop applied knowledge of the sciences that inform professional practice, including anatomy, physiology, psychology and sociology. This module will cover the following - Introduction to module and assessment, applied human anatomy, physiological systems, branches of psychology, applied sociology and Introduction to the different illnesses and diseases
Person Centred Care – 30 Credits	This module will enable apprentices to investigate and explore the structures, processes and outcomes associated with the provision of person-centred care. Emphasis on values; engaging patients and carers; principles of social justice, advocacy, health beliefs, including consideration of culture and religion; shared decision making; establishing therapeutic partnerships and concordance; healthcare systems and complexity; patient safety; human factors and their importance; understanding and learning from errors; managing risk and law and ethics.
Introduction to Interprofessional Working – 15 Credits	The module will provide the opportunity to explore and develop an individual’s understanding of professional and interprofessional working in health and social care environments. This module will cover the following: concepts and values of professional practice, interprofessional working and communication, evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence, effective interprofessional team working and challenges associated with interprofessional team working.
Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours Portfolio 1 – 30 Credits (PAD)	This module will provide evidence that apprentices have successful completed all skills identified in the Practice Assessment Document (PAD) with supportive evidence. To show the importance of reflection in the workplace and to demonstrate continuous personal and professional development.

Second Year
Developing Critical Appraisal Skills – 30 Credits	This module takes an evidence-based approach to develop skills in literature searching, reviewing and critiquing health and social care research.
Public Health and Wellbeing – 15 Credits	Promoting the health and wellbeing of the individual requires an understanding of the wider issues, including environment and work safety issues, heredity, lifestyle, education, social economic factors and media influence.
Management and Leadership in Health and Social Care – 30 Credits	This module introduces the apprentice to both the theory and practical background to leadership and management. This module will cover the following: leadership – motivation, personal power, using team skills, demonstrating trust, mentoring, management – delegation, prioritisation, team roles and responsibilities, resource management, change management, clinical governance – definition, impact, operation of clinical governance, examples from practice and health care policy and local impact – NSFs, NICE guidelines, current health policies and their implementation locally.
Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours Portfolio 2 - 30 Credits (PAD)	To provide evidence that apprentices have successful completed all skills identified in the Practice Assessment Document with supportive evidence. To show the importance of reflection in the workplace and to demonstrate continuous personal and professional development.
Integrated Care for Nursing Associate - 15 Credits	This module will develop the apprentice’s ability to use theory to consider the healthcare needs of people utilising the breadth of services. Apprentices will explore how underpinning theories of causation help explain variety of commonly occurring mental, physical, behavioural health conditions. The difference between acute illness, long-term conditions and end of life care is explored. During this module the underlying principles of healthcare ethics, legislation and social policy will be explored.

First year
HS231 - Identification of Developmental Communication Abilities and Difficulties (30 credits)	This module will introduce you to observation and assessment techniques alongside the professional reasoning skills required to make decisions regarding which techniques to use and how to interpret findings. The module will incorporate learning around service users who are likely to present with developmental difficulties of speech, language and communication across the lifespan.
HS232 - Identification of Acquired Communication Abilities and Difficulties (30 credits)	This module will introduce you to observation and assessment techniques alongside the professional reasoning skills required to make decisions regarding which techniques to use and how to interpret findings. The module will incorporate learning around service users who are likely to present with acquired difficulties of speech language and communication.
HS233 - Dysphagia (15 credits)	This module will revise and build upon anatomy, physiology and neurology from year 1 of the degree and introduce learners to observation, investigation and intervention techniques alongside the professional reasoning skills required to underpin practical management of dysphagia. Aspects of the work will be practical, for example role playing of oro-motor and assessment techniques.
HS234 - Practice Placement	This module will introduce you to the knowledge, skills and work based learning that will enable you to develop SLT specific professional reasoning skills around the identification and understanding of speech language and communication ability and difficulty across the lifespan, including aspects of multi professional investigation.
HS240 - Professional Enquiry	With a mixture of interactive and practical classroom-based lectures, this module focuses on literature searching, synthesising literature within a critical review and identifying a topic for further professional enquiry. Learners will gain practical experience of collecting and handling a variety of data and developing analytical skills to gain an understanding of evidence in its widest sense.

Second Year
HS331 - Enhancing Communication for People with Developmental and Acquired Communication Difficulties	This module will build upon your understanding of typical communication from year one of the degree programme and identification of developmental and acquired speech language and communication difficulties in year two of the programme. Models of intervention, ethics, outcomes and management approaches will be introduced, along with extension of professional reasoning skills to include intervention planning for individual's difficulties across the range of the speech and language therapy caseload. There will be an emphasis on transferable skills, problem solving, evidence-based intervention and multi professional working. A biopsychosocial approach will be taken, enabling you to understand intervention for, and impact of, communication difficulties from a range of perspectives.
HS340 - Professional Enquiry Proposal	This module will develop evidence-based practice and research through self-directed learning. This autonomous working method will help to prepare learners as pro-active professionals once qualified. Learners will work towards preparing and submitting an in-depth literature review and research proposal or service improvement project proposal.
HS332 - Practice Placement	This module will enable you to develop professional reasoning and management skills in supervised practice across the lifespan in varied contexts.
HS333 - Dysphagia 2 (15 credits)	This module will revise and build upon knowledge obtained in HS233. Learners will apply their knowledge of anatomy, physiology and neurology as well as observation, investigation and intervention techniques to develop a broader understanding of complex dysphagia, service delivery and caseload management.

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