PgCert Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (Apprenticeship)
University of SunderlandSunderland, United Kingdom
Course overview
The Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP) apprenticeship is designed to help healthcare professionals develop advanced knowledge, skills, and behaviours aligned with national apprenticeship standards. The course prepares you to work at an enhanced level of practice within multidisciplinary teams across health and social care settings, including the NHS, forensic, social, and prison services. This 13-month course, followed by an End Point Assessment (EPA), focuses on developing enhanced clinical competencies that enable you to contribute effectively to specific areas of patient care.
Enhanced Clinical Practice (ECP) will work alongside the MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner. It's a destination role in its own right, offering services and patients a consistent level of expertise, working in discrete areas of patient pathways.
Key highlights
- Aligned with national Enhanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship standards
- Develops enhanced clinical knowledge, skills and behaviours for patient care
- Prepares you for multidisciplinary teams across health and social care
- Relevant to NHS, forensic, social and prison service settings
- Concludes with an End Point Assessment after 13 months of study
- Leads to a destination role working in discrete patient pathways
Entry requirements
- Additional condition: professional_registration — You should also be registered with the appropriate professional and/or regulatory body (e.g. NMC, HCPC, etc.) and employed within a trainee ECP role.
Scholarships
We Care Postgraduate Bursary
The We Care Postgraduate Bursary awards £2,500 cash to eligible postgraduate students.
Up to £2,500
Careers this course leads to
- Enhanced Clinical Practitioner
- Enhanced Practice Nurse
- Enhanced Practitioner (Allied Health Professional)
- Forensic Healthcare Practitioner
- Prison Healthcare Practitioner
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Sunderland, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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