This pathway of units provides experienced health and social care professionals with the opportunity to develop and extend their knowledge of leadership and management theory and enhance their practice. This course is primarily designed to meet the management and leadership development needs of supervisors, team leaders, first line managers, middle and senior managers/leaders. However, experienced professionals who aspire to a management career/leadership role may also access the course as long as they have supervisory responsibilities that allow them to complete the practice assessments. As this programme offers a good grounding in all aspects of leadership and management, it is suitable for managers currently in first line and middle manager positions who may be seeking promotion to a senior position.

The structure of this award is such that you do not apply for the whole award at once but instead apply for each individual unit according to your need. You choose the CPD Leadership and Management units from the list below that meet your specific requirements/needs and build up to one of the Leading & Developing Services awards unit by unit, paying for each individual unit as you undertake it. You have the option to either exit with an interim award or continue for the full MA award. The award options are:

Post Graduate Certificate Leading & Developing Services (interim award)
When you have completed a minimum of 60 level 7 credits (20 credits must be from the mandatory Leading for Change unit) you can opt to exit the programme and be awarded a Post Graduate Certificate Leading & Developing Services. Alternatively, if you wish to continue gaining credit you can work towards the next interim award below.

Post Graduate Diploma Leading & Developing Services (interim award)
When you have completed a minimum of 120 level 7 credits (20 credits must be from the mandatory Leading for Change unit) you can opt to exit the programme and be awarded a Post Graduate Diploma Leading & Developing Services. Alternatively, if you wish to continue on to gain the full MA please see below.

MA Leading & Developing Services (Full award)
When you have completed a minimum of 120 credits of your choice from our CPD Level 7 Leadership and Management units (20 credits must be from the mandatory Leading for Change unit), you can then complete the mandatory masters unit entitled Service improvement Project to gain 180 level 7 credits to exit with the full MA Leading & Developing Services award.

The timeframe to gain any of the above awards is 5 years from when you start you first CPD Level 7 Leadership and Management unit with Bournemouth University. Once you have achieved the relevant number of credits please email the Admissions Team (hsspostregadmissions@bournemouth.ac.uk) so that your award can be ratified.

Please see the programme diagram under 'Downloads' which illustrates the different Leading & Developing Services award options.

The list of modules that can be used to contribute towards these awards are below, please see the specific module pages for further information on each:

Core Unit
* Leading for Change
* Evidencing Professional Learning: 2 Managing and Leading Organisational Change (This unit is only available for students on the Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust Leadership Pathway)

Option units ^~

*Self-Leadership
*Improving Personal and Organisational Performance (IPOP)
*Evidencing Professional Learning (EPL) 1,2 & 3
*Leading and Managing Teams
*Leading Integrated Services
*Practice Observation (Self-managed)
*Professional Supervision in Health and Social Care
*Strategic Leadership
*Professional Reasoning and Judgement in Health and Social Care
*Resilience, Advocacy and Wellbeing
*Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

Dorset Healthcare only: (These unit are only available for students on the Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust Leadership Pathway):

*Evidencing Professional Learning 1: Leading Self
*Evidencing Professional Learning 3: Leading and Managing Teams

^Some of these units run annually and others only run if there are enough applicants to make up a minimum cohort of 12. 

~Students can only use a maximum of three EPL units within the overall award. 

Core Unit for Masters

*Service Improvement Project units

Applicants need to have undertaken at least one CPD Leadership unit at level 7, prior to undertaking this course e.g. Self-leadership or Improving Personal and Organisational Performance (IPOP) or equivalent.