This breadth of delivery will enable students to access the knowledge and skills to lead and deliver to the emerging children's integrated workforce agenda. The curriculum has been designed to ensure a cohesive student experience across the three faculties. This framework enables students to have maximum flexibility to choose option modules tailored to their individual educational needs and the requirements of their work environment.
It is important for employers to develop an effective and well educated workforce to meet the needs of their clients and ensure added value in an environment of finite resources. This MA programme will provide a framework which includes a number of postgraduate certificates exit awards. It is recognised that students may have already followed a specialised programme of study in the form of a postgraduate certificate or single modules relevant to their work.
The flexible structure will enable entry to the programme at an appropriate level and progression to a full Master's degree. In addition the programme also provides flexibility to include selected clusters of modules to suit the professional needs of the student. Owing to the focus of this MA programme, only approved options from a specified range will be available, as negotiated with the programme leader.
These programmes and modules must contain learning outcomes that meet specified benchmarks. Core Modules For further examples of delivery mode and awards please see Section 1.2 and Appendix 2 of Programme Management Document. Transfer of previously acquired credits and module approval Up to 60 credits at level 7 may be brought into the MA programme from approved postgraduate modules.
Please note: that to meet approval, the modules must have been mapped against, for example, health, social care, education, business, children and young people's benchmarks, and other criteria as will be specified in the handbook for this programme. For core module descriptors and a list of option modules available from the Faculty of Health and Social, Faculty of Education and Children's Services, and Faculty of Business Enterprise and Lifelong Learning
Why study this course?
This programme will offer an opportunity to meet the evolving agenda in leading the one children's workforce. In addition this MA programme will offer an opportunity to analyse and debate the ideas and innovations that underpin effective integrated working within a multi-professional environment.
The programme contains the following core modules:
- NM7401: Developing alliances within an integrated children, young people and families workforce (20 credits)
- NM7069: Research (20 credits)
- NM7038: Work Based Learning Project (Dissertation) (60 credits)
- The remaining 4 modules are chosen from a menu of cross faculty modules (see module list)
- Transfer of previously acquired credits and module approval Up to 60 credits at level 7 may be brought into the MA programme from approved postgraduate modules.
Please note: that to meet approval, the modules must have been mapped against, for example, health, social care, education, business, children and young people's benchmarks, and other criteria as will be specified in the handbook for this programme.
Features:
Through working alongside a range of professionals that represents leadership of the Children's Workforce, you will synthesize the contributions of other leading professionals and analyse your own contributions in managing and leading service provision of children's services.
The programme aims to:
- Offer a flexible and unique programme that promotes inter-professional learning and empowers students to become pro-active, influential and effective in the sphere of integrated working with children and families across all sectors
- Prepare students who will be able to exercise higher levels of judgement and problem solving in relation to inter-professional working and encourage the promotion of an integrated diverse workforce in others
- To endorse opportunities for inter professional education based upon partnerships between service managers and educationalists that enhance the quality of integrated working in children and young people's services
- To cultivate and endorse the skills of synthesis, encompassed with critical, analytical and reflective thinking and promote an ethos of lifelong learning
- To promote learning opportunities which allow students to enhance professional knowledge and expertise within the sphere of a children and young people's workforce
- To be pro-active in recognising the need for a transformational integrated children's workforce and to utilise best evidence to promote research based changes and communicate conclusions clearly
- To provide a robust theoretical underpinning for the key areas of competency
- Develop originality and sound judgement in leading the integrated children's workforce agenda incorporating best practice in service delivery
This programme is a response to the Children's workforce strategy: building a world-class workforce for children, young people and families, which aims to improve the outcomes for children and young people and families through developing all those who work in the sector:
"It means a workforce that is well led and made up of people willing and able to lead effectively in an integrated way across agencies."
The integrated nature of the programme will make successful postgraduates ready to take on important leadership and champion roles right across the wider workforce.
Specific information and guidance is available on the following:
Bursaries may be available for some postgraduate routes.
