Learning opportunities for leadership and management

The Faculty of Health and Social Science is a multi-professional and interdisciplinary faculty. We provide learning and development opportunities to practitioners from counselling and psychotherapy, nursing and midwifery, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry and social work working in the public, private and voluntary sectors in diverse organisations. The faculty works in close collaboration with the Division of Medical Education at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Our overall approach is to consider management and leadership in its professional and policy context in order to develop reflexive leaders and practitioners.

How do we do it?

There are three main ways that learning is offered in the area of leadership and management:

• Modules which can be taken as short courses on specific areas of leadership and management which can also accumulate towards an award
• Taught postgraduate courses where leadership and management forms a substantial part of the course
• Masters in Public Administration, where core elements focus on managing public and voluntary organisations, partnerships and networks, participation and democracy, and strategy and planning in the public services.

At postgraduate and post-registration or post-qualifiying level, all learning occurs within the faculty-wide Graduate Programme in Health and Social Science, which affords opportunities for flexible, interprofessional learning.

Our strengths in leadership and management learning include:

• Expertise across the whole range of health and social care professions, including expert knowledge and experience of complex practice situations (including clinical practice).
• Interprofessional learning on modules with students from a range of professions and agency contexts including the third or voluntary sector.
• A focus on improving the experiences of, and outcomes for, patients, service users and carers as a central element of all learning.
• Professionally qualified facilitators and tutors who have a full and up-to-date understanding of the professional practice context.
• Learning informed by the latest research. All schools in the faculty are research active and the latest research findings and evidence base inform learning and teaching.
• Significant range of modules and courses available (listed below) from general issues in relation to leadership and management to very specific matters.
• Expertise in managing flexible learning for those who are working full- or part-time, as well as studying.