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Fees
Funding
- Fully-funded: Levy paying organisations
- Co-funded: Non-levy organisations (the annual pay bill of your organisation is less than £3 million) and levy paying organisations who have exceeded their levy contribution.
Year 1:
Year 2:
Assessment Methods
- Coursework
- Reports
- Reflective writing/blogs
- Professional Development Profile
- Peer Observation of Practice
- Portfolio
- Graphic visual representations of knowledge, information and data
- An observation including viva and professional presentation which form the End Point Assessment (EPA).
- Senior Leader Higher Apprenticeship
- MBA in Leadership or Leadership in Healthcare (included at no extra cost to the apprenticeship funding band).
- CMI L7 Diploma in Strategic Management & Leadership Practice.
- Work-based learning which means that the apprentice is in paid employment for the duration of their apprenticeship and receives on the job training and support leading to a relevant masters degree in leadership.
- Study collaboratively with peers from other industries, allowing you to gain a wider knowledge base and experience.
- Develop leadership, management and innovative capabilities and build expertise in key business areas such as effective decision making, leading projects, business strategy and inspiring change.
- Through the above apprentices will acquire the knowledge and skills and prepare for the End Point Assessment with the opportunity to gain Chartered Manager Status (CMgr).
- CMI Membership throughout the duration of the programme, access to the CMI’s Management Direct as well as the Universities own research bank.
- Support from Associate Lecturers who are specialists in their industry, they will work with candidates to contextualise the theoretical study and build a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate occupational competency.
Areas of specialism
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@Leadership in healthcare
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@Apply your personal industry specialism to the learning content
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@Support the embedding of this specialism throughout the programme
Course facts:
Duration: 24 months plus EPA
Hours of study per week: 20% of your contracted working hours released from work to undertake study. As a guide, apprentices should also expect to study for an additional 8 hours per week. Employers are expected to support their apprentice's study by providing a workplace mentor and supporting meetings and assessments.
Delivery type: Blended – predominantly on-line with three on campus face to face days across the two years of study.
Entry requirements: All applicants need to be employed by an organisation who will support the individual’s participation in the programme. Applicants require: A degree at 2:1 or above (or equivalent, including professional qualifications) OR significant management experience and a strong track record of achievements in business and/or relevant professional qualifications.
Core skills – organisational performance
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?Strategy
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? Innovation and change
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?Enterprise and risk
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?Decision making
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?Project management
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?Shaping the environment
Benefits to the business
- Maintain or improve current skills within your organisation
- Develop your own workforce
- Improve staff retention rates
- Flexible delivery of theoretical teaching
- Receive a skills injection to future proof your business
- Address strategic needs of the business through focused learning.
Core skills – interpersonal excellence
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?Engaging employees
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?Leading and developing
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?People leading and developing people
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?Building collaborative relationships
Benefits to the apprentice
- Undertake learning in a flexible format
- Learn from staff and guest speakers with research and consultancy experience, and links with industry
- Work on an applied project to deliver practical value for your own organisation by analysing a challenge or opportunity and providing useful recommendations
- Use your Applied Learning Portfolio to demonstrate how you’re applying new knowledge and behaviours in a work-based context
- Have access to a vast selection of electronic resources, which are available 24/7
- Confidence to apply the learning from your theoretical study directly into real live working situations.