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Introduction

Our Enhanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship gives you the postgraduate level expertise needed to become an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner. Learn from an expert multi-professional team within industry-standard facilities at Glenside Campus.

Why study for an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship?

Our practice-based Enhanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship (Level 6) is designed for experienced healthcare professionals ready to take their clinical practice and healthcare career to the next level.

Not only will you gain a PGDip Enhanced Clinical Practitioner qualification, you'll also progress your career to enhanced specialist roles across primary, secondary, community and social care settings. You'll build the confidence and competence to deliver complex care, support your team, and improve patient outcomes.

Learn how to manage complex interventions, support clinical decision-making, and lead improvements in care for patients and their families. You'll also develop the ability to teach, mentor and supervise others, helping to shape the future of healthcare delivery.

Why UWE Bristol?

Delivered through flexible, blended learning, you'll study alongside other professionals, from nursing to physiotherapy, in a multi-disciplinary environment. Supported by expert academics and technical staff, you'll have access to industry-standard facilities on Glenside Campus, including simulation suites, a replica ward, and consultation rooms.

Throughout your apprenticeship, you'll have the chance to study a range of optional modules as part of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio. This ensures your studies will be bespoke and tailored to your workplace and professional context.

Benefits to your employer

This apprenticeship has been designed in partnership with employers to prepare you to work at the top of your registration. You'll apply your learning directly to your practice, ensuring you're equipped with the latest theory and methodology from the start.

Enhanced practice training allows you to address medical staffing issues through delivering high quality, safe patient care. You'll build the confidence and skills needed to carry out a range of interventions with a high level of autonomy and drive service improvements through reflective practice.

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Careers

On successful completion of this apprenticeship, you'll achieve a Postgraduate Diploma in Enhanced Clinical Practice. So our apprenticeship will enable you to build the master's-level expertise required to become an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner. After graduation, you'll also have the option to top-up to a full master's degree, such as MSc Advanced Practice or MSc Clinical Practice.

This apprenticeship is designed to support your progression into enhanced specialist clinical roles across the NHS and wider health and care sector. Whether you're an experienced nurse, paramedic, or allied health professional, you'll gain access to a wide range of career opportunities in primary, secondary, community or social care.

In addition to supporting your development in the workplace, this apprenticeship will help you understand the career landscape in your sector and plan for your longer-term ambitions. Our award-winning Careers Service is on hand to give you independent advice and guidance at any point in your studies.

Course details

Content

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

Year one

You'll study:

Leadership and Innovation (20 credits)
Health and Social Care Research: Methods and Methodology (20 credits).

Plus, optional modules (totalling 40 credits) from:

Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning of the Presenting Child (20 credits)*
Advancing Practice in Clinical Examination and Diagnostic Reasoning for Urgent, Emergency and Primary Care Practitioners (40 credits)
Pathophysiology and Diagnostic Reasoning in Clinical Practice (20 credits)
Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning for Practice (20 credits).*

*You won't be able to study both of these modules.

Year two

In negotiation with the Programme Leader, you'll study modules to the value of 40 credits, which must be from our School of Health and Social Wellbeing portfolio of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules. These CPD modules can be found within our list of Health professional and short courses.

Learning and Teaching

You'll learn through a mix of hybrid online and face-to-face teaching, designed to fit around your work. Your on-campus teaching will include lectures, interactive workshops, simulation-based learning, group work, self-directed learning and real-world case studies that bring theory to life.

You'll study alongside professionals from a range of backgrounds, creating a rich, collaborative learning environment. Our expert teaching team will support you to apply what you learn directly to your clinical role through work-based learning.

See our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Assessment

Throughout your apprenticeship, you'll be assessed through coursework, examinations, presentations, Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) and a portfolio of work. Assessments are designed to reflect real clinical practice.

To complete the apprenticeship, you'll need to submit a portfolio of evidence as part of your End Point Assessment.Learn more about our assessments.

Features

Study facilities

Throughout your apprenticeship, you'll have access to student support and the latest healthcare facilities at Glenside Campus. These include a sensory room, simulation suites, a replica ward and consultation rooms, emulating community, home, minor injuries and A&E settings.

You'll also have access to one of the UK's best health and social care libraries and 24/7 support, whether you're on campus or at your workplace. If local to UWE Bristol, you'll have the opportunity to use our state-of-the-art facilities for practical skill building.

Life

Health and Wellbeing

We provide support in the way you need it.

Bristol

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Sustainability

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Entry

Typical offers

Entry requirements

An apprentice must be employed in a role that is relevant to the skill, trade or occupation they are being trained for. As part of their commitment to the apprenticeship, apprentices must complete at least six hours per week of off-the-job learning activity within their normal contracted working hours, which is supported by their employer.
You'll have a first degree from a recognised institution of higher education or its equivalent in a relevant subject area.
You must hold current registration with one of the statutory regulators of health and care professions, for example NMC and/or HCPC/GPC.

Skills England eligibility requirements

To study an apprenticeship, you need to:

Be aged 16 years or over.
Be an EEA citizen (with Right to Work in the UK) and not be in any other kind of full-time education (including being enrolled on any other apprenticeship programme).
Be employed (for at least the full planned duration of your apprenticeship) in a role that is linked to the appropriate industry for the apprenticeship training.
Receive at least legal minimum wage for apprentices (wages vary depending on experience, employer and level or type of apprenticeship).
Commit to at least 6 hours per week of apprenticeship training during your normal working hours.
Have support from your employer, including a mentor/line manager. Your employer is also responsible for funding your apprenticeship.

Find out about eligibility for apprenticeship funding.

We use the UCAS Tariff system to make offers to applicants. You can use the UCAS Tariff Calculator to convert your qualifications and grades into points.

How to apply

Employed

If you're interested in applying and have the support from your employer, speak to your line manager and/or HR team in the first instance for approval. Your employer will contact us so we can send you an application link.

Unemployed

If you're not employed, you can use the following tools to find an apprenticeship vacancy with an employer:

Employers

Get in touch with us to speak to a partnership manager and discuss how we can support you.

For further information

For course-specific enquiries, please contact the Programme Leader.

For Entry Requirement enquiries, please contact Admissions@uwe.ac.uk.

For all other enquiries, please email our Apprenticeship Hub apprenticeships@uwe.ac.uk or call +44 (0)117 32 84888.

Find out more about Higher and Degree Apprenticeships.

Higher/Degree Apprenticeship Enhanced Clinical Practitioner