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Interprofessional education

Learning opportunities for leadership and management

Who are we and what do we do?

The Faculty of Health and Social Science (FHSS) 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 who work in the public, private and voluntary sectors in diverse organisations. Our overall approach is to consider management and leadership in its professional, policy and inter professional context in order to develop reflexive leaders and practitioners. The faculty works in close collaboration also with the Division of Medical Education at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and thus offers unique opportunities for practitioners to explore and develop knowledge and skills for leadership and management in an inter-professional context, reflecting clinical and practice realities.

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 keadership 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 Sciences (GPHSS), which affords opportunities for flexible, inter-professional 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
  • A significant range of modules and courses available (listed below) from general issues in relation to leadership and management to very specific practice areas
  • Expertise in managing flexible learning for those who are working full or part time, as well as studying

General leadership and management modules (which can be taken as short courses)

NAM07 Managing Change
NAM52 Leadership Roles and Responsibilities
MDM35 Leadership for Health and Social Care Professionals
SSM47 Managing in the Public and Voluntary Sector
SSM23 Strategy and Planning in Public and Voluntary Sector
SSM45 Organisations Partnerships and Networks

Commissioning

MDM05 Knowledge Management for Commissioning
MDM97 Commissioning and the Market

Leadership and management modules in specific areas

NAM72 Leadership and Decision making in Safeguarding Children
SS700 Managing the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults
MM03 Management of Chronic Cardiac Disease
MDM76 Quality and Patient Safety

Masters' courses which combine management and leadership with professional specialisation

Clinical Studies and Management
Commissioning and Leadership
Health and Management
Health Promotion and Management
International Health Promotion and Management
Occupational Therapy and Management
Physiotherapy and Management
Podiatry and Management
Mental Health and Management
Advanced Social Work and Management
PG Diploma Leadership and Management in Social Work

Medical Leadership in Clinical Settings MSc

MDM108 Leadership in clinical contexts
MDM114 Leadership and change agency in organisations
MDM115 Ethical and reflective leadership
MDM116 Business leadership in clinical settings
MDM111 Clinical commissioning for quality care
MDM117 Research based learning in clinical settings
MDM118 Dissertation: Leadership for service Improvement

Managing Medical Careers MSc

MDM80 Working with individual students and doctors in training
MDM81 Working with groups of medical students and doctors in training
MDM82 Working within an organisation
MDM107 Advanced guidance practice
MDM105 Work and Wellbeing
MDM48 Practitioner Research Methods
MDM09 Personal portfolio

Masters in Public Administration (MPA)

For those who wish to focus specifically on management approaches applicable to public, community and voluntary service organisations, the MPA is a taught programme which offers core modules on strategy and planning, partnerships and networks, management and policy analysis. MPA teaching and module design is founded on the recognition that cross sector, inter-professional dialogue produces an extremely valuable and relevant learning experience.