EVIDENCING YOUR PRACTICE (LEADERSHIP) - 2020/1

Module Overview

The Module gives students from a wide range of disciplines in health and social care the opportunity to evidence their practice in their own speciality. They will develop an eportfolio of evidence to reflect the dimensions of the NHS Leadership Academy Framework

Module provider

School of Health Sciences

Module Leader

HUGHES Karen (Health Sci.)

Number of Credits: 15

ECTS Credits: 7.5

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

JACs code: B700

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 2

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

Experience and currently working in a leadership or healthcare management role.

Module content

Indicative content includes:
• Theoretical underpinnings to evidence their practice in leadership and management
• Creating a culture for learning and development
• Evaluating and reviewing information
• Resilience and capability
• Best practice and opportunities for improvement
• Leadership as a role model, champion and advocate

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

None required

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate the advancement of their leadership/ management practice and critical analysis of the underpinning evidence base.
Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:
• An eportfolio relevant to own area of practice. The eportfolio will enable students to demonstrate advancement of their knowledge, skills and application of key theories and principles, underpinned by the dimensions of the NHS Leadership Academy Framework for leaders in healthcare

Module aims

• Enable healthcare leaders and managers to demonstrate advancement of their knowledge, skills understanding in relation to the relevant underpinning theory within their area of practice.
• Explore opportunities to enhance organisational culture utilising the evidence base
• Support leaders to empower and support the development of healthcare workers
• Support leaders to empower and support the development of healthcare workers

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:
Enable students to develop and demonstrate the development of their skills and knowledge utilising the evidence base.
The learning and teaching methods include:
Delivery of Module
This an ONLINE, e-learning module accessible via the University Surrey Learn platform.

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

Reading list for EVIDENCING YOUR PRACTICE (LEADERSHIP) : http://aspire.surrey.ac.uk/modules/hcrm041

Other information

None

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2020/1 academic year.