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Advanced Work Based Skills - Therapeutic Interventions
Key information
Course Leader: Lucy Whelan
Level: 7
Credits: 15
Mode of delivery: Blended
Learner Hours: Scheduled Hours 20, Independent Hours 130
Available places: 40
Dates
- 14/05/2026
Fees and Funding
£915.00
The price quoted above is per 30 credits in this academic year. This price relates to self-funding students assessed as UK students for fee purposes. Prices may differ for students that are assessed as EU/Overseas, or for returning students that are on a course leading to an award. Click here for Fees and Funding information or email us.
Entry Requirements
This module is a core element for students on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice programme and cannot be studied on a standalone basis.
Students must have completed the following module prior to undertaking this module: 7HSK0291 Advanced Work Based Skills - Diagnostic Interpretation
Course Overview
The aim of this module is to enable students to continue to develop advanced knowledge, understanding and skills in advanced clinical practice relevant to the students’ own scope of practice. Students will be supported in their workplace by the workplace supervisor to meet the learning outcomes of the module.
The student will continue to develop person centred skills of consultation, diagnosis and care management with a focus on therapeutic interventions, caring for complex presentations and health promotion.
The module will normally address:
- Validity & reliability of therapeutic interventions
- Shared decision making
- Development of advanced clinical skills
- Caring for patients with complex and unpredictable presentations
- Promoting health promotion in clinical practice
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge and Understanding:
Successful students will typically...
1. Independently explore and critically evaluate the knowledge base pertaining to complex and unpredictable care management and the scope of therapeutic interventions which benefits the development of their personal and professional practice.
2. Critically explore the physiological and psychosocial impact and the evidence base of therapeutic interventions.
3. Critically explore the efficacy and efficiency of health promotion, including genomics and person focused care, relevant to the chosen areas of practice.
Intellectual, Practical and Transferable Skills:
Successful students will typically...
1. Work autonomously at an advanced practitioner level demonstrating evidence of clinical expertise within complex and unpredictable care management.
2. Demonstrate advanced decision making and shared decision making and evaluate the role of own and others personal and professional values in planning and implementing care provision in complex presentations relevant to the chosen areas of practice.
3. Effectively promote multi-professional engagement in advanced clinical practice through communities of learning and communities of practice.
Assessment:
Coursework P/F - Portfolio of evidence
Incorporates evidence-based case reviews focusing on non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions, evidencing achievement of Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (HEE MPF 2017) or apprenticeship standard descriptors (ST0564).
To pass this element students must submit a portfolio which includes:
- Evidence of a minimum of 40 hours of workplace learning
- Three completed consultation sheets, signed by workplace supervisor
- Three DOP (Directly Observed Practice) forms, signed as competent by workplace supervisor
- Three reflective logs (minimum 200 words each)
- Three evaluation forms completed by the multi-professional team attending the student’s tutorial on the selected therapeutic intervention.
Coursework 1, 100%
2500-word essay critically analysing one of the therapeutic interventions identified in clinical practice.
Formative assessment
500-word critical analysis of the therapeutic intervention.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
Successful students will typically:
1. Independently explore and critically evaluate the knowledge base pertaining to complex and unpredictable care management and the scope of therapeutic interventions which benefits the development of their personal and professional practice.
2. Critically explore the physiological and psychosocial impact and the evidence base of therapeutic interventions.
3. Critically explore the efficacy and efficiency of health promotion, including genomics and person focused care, relevant to the chosen areas of practice.
Skills and Attributes:
Successful students will typically:
1. Work autonomously at an advanced practitioner level demonstrating evidence of clinical expertise within complex and unpredictable care management.
2. Demonstrate advanced decision making and shared decision making and evaluate the role of own and others personal and professional values in planning and implementing care provision in complex presentations relevant to the chosen areas of practice.
3. Effectively promote multi−professional engagement in advanced clinical practice through communities of learning and communities of practice
Assessment
Coursework 1, 100%
Portfolio of evidence — Incorporating evidence-based case reviews focusing on therapeutic interventions, complex cases and health promotion.
Formative assessment
Submission of 'Portfolio of Learning' evidencing achievement of Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (HEE MPF 2017) or apprenticeship standard descriptors (5T0564).