PGDip Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation)
Swansea, United Kingdom
Postgraduate Diploma
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 14,450 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* full-time for international| GBP 8,550 per year for UK
Key Summary
Do you want to play a key role in the transformation of health and care systems? Do you want to challenge the status quo and use your innovative ideas to develop systems and services that benefit both the patient and the organization?
This course is designed to better equip middle and senior managers within health and social care systems in the UK and globally, to lead transformational change and drive innovation within healthcare systems, processes, and technologies.
The increasing need for value-driven health and care systems requires leaders who are capable of driving organizational and system-wide transformations. The future challenges call for a radically new approach, underpinned by prudent principles, to lead change, harness new technologies, and contest the purpose, value, and location of existing service provision for citizens.
This program will enable you to realize innovation at a local level, with the potential to lead through a transformation at the system level. Using the Bevan Commission’s thinking and Innovators, along with perspective from NHS Innovation Leads, industry, and the wider sector, you will gain first-hand, invaluable insights into the application of the theories you will study.
Enhancing your management skills to correspond with the requirements in a modern health and care setting, is key in ensuring you can successfully guide organizations through innovative and transformational challenges.
Why Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation)?
- Be the key driving force to transform health and care systems for the better.
- Access to world-class academics with extensive experience working within the health, social care, third sector, and life sciences sectors; as well as academia.
- Innovative teaching blends theory with practice through case analysis, participant observation, role play, and master classes by subject experts.
- Confront contemporary issues about the transformation and improvement of health and social care.
- Explore the inherent complexities in health and social care policy and practice for innovation and transformation.
- Promote innovation and the challenges of uncertainty and disruption.
- Provide an opportunity for health and care professionals to undertake a critical evaluation of underlying theory, practice, and research in health and social care.
- Become a critically reflective leader, practitioner, manager, or researcher who can function at an advanced level of practice and provide leadership in the planning, development, and critical evaluation of integrated health and social care.
Intensive Learning Academy Wales Scholarships
As part of the Welsh Government Intensive Learning Academy (ILA), we can offer limited scholarships focused on professional learners from across Wales, working within NHS Wales, social care, and third-sector organizations.
Applicants will need to have applied for and been accepted on the course before a scholarship can be awarded.
Government Funding and other scholarships
You may be eligible for funding to help support your study.
If you're a UK or EU student starting a master’s degree at Swansea University, you may be eligible to apply for Government funding to help towards the cost of your studies.
Academi Hywel Teifi at Swansea University and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol offer several generous scholarships and bursaries for students who wish to study through the medium of Welsh or bilingually.
Year 1 (Level 7T)
Compulsory Modules
- Prudent Health and Care - Policy and Practice
- Prudent Health and Care Innovation
- Complex Health and Care, People and Systems
- Research in Practice
Employment Opportunities
This course is designed to better equip middle and senior managers within health systems (UK and globally), social care, life sciences, and third sectors to be the driving force behind innovation and transformation within their organizations.
There is a range of possible career options available, including:
- Managing Director
- Head of Innovation
- Operations Director
- Change Manager
- Head of Value-Based Health and Care
- Chief Innovation Officer
- Innovation Lead
- Operational Manager
- Project Manager
- Finance Manager
- Quality and Assurance Manager
- Team Manager
- Service Manager
- Technical Manager
- Procurement Manager
Careers and Employability
The MSc Advanced Management (Health Innovation and Transformation) is designed for professional learners in health and care settings. It will give students a range of new tools and techniques that will not only help them enhance the delivery of their teams and organization but will also promote their further career development. In addition to the skills and knowledge learned the program also offers the opportunity to meet fellow professionals in related fields and to learn from leaders in practice and research. Work-based research and projects will also enhance your employability skills and professional development.
In addition, you have access to the careers and employability support offered by the School of Management's in-house employability team.
During your time with us, you’ll have the chance to:
- Join our Employability Mentoring scheme and get mentored by an employer who can help you with the transition from student to working professional
- Get the opportunity to speak to our growing Alumni Community
- Work and network with employers from a range of national and multi-national companies through our seminars and events
- Help with finding jobs, internships, work placements, and volunteering opportunities
- Access to information resources on a wide range of career management topics
- Employability workshops, employers’ talks, bespoke events and careers fairs
Your Innovation and Transformation Course Experience
This program is Delivered in A Research and Practice-Led Learning Environment; Where the Most Up-To-Date Knowledge Is Used to Motivate and Inspire Learners; Maximizing Your Learning Outcomes. You Will Also Be Encouraged to Become Co-Creators of Research During the Research in A Health and Care Context Module and The Formative and Summative Assessments in Other Modules.
Your learning will be developed through original applications of different concepts and models to cases from your own work and life experience.
The program will also draw on international, national, regional, and local associations and networks. This breadth of research, teaching, and professional expertise will serve to greatly enrich your development in the field of innovation and transformation within health and care.
How You're Taught
Our Advanced Management program is a flexible and innovative degree that uses a variety of teaching methods, in the main through weekly lectures and seminars and developed by experts and practitioners in the health, care, and voluntary sectors.
From the start of your degree, you will be immersed in our cutting-edge research and industry-led teaching, having every opportunity to develop key transferable skills whilst meeting the learning outcomes set out in the module syllabus.
In addition to traditional lectures, there will be self-directed learning, workshops, group discussions, team exercises, learner-led presentations and state-of-the-art content (asynchronous lectures and master classes), virtual seminars contextualizing industrial applications, face-to-face workshops, and networking opportunities with external stakeholders.
This course consists of six modules and is taught in a ‘blended’ way. This means that most teaching will be done online Part-Time, (with a face-to-face workshop per module), and mainly face-to-face lectures and seminars Full-Time based on campus.