Work-Based Learning

Many healthcare practitioners' roles include an element of public health. Key patterns can become apparent among their communities, such as high levels of service users with obesity, or experiencing domestic abuse.

On this course you'll create a case study by creatively examining relevant contemporary literature around your public health issue of choice. Over 20 practice days, you'll conduct research online, speak to relevant organisations and/or charities, and begin to apply the theoretical and practical concepts you've learned in your workplace, aiding your understanding of, and enabling you to critique, the literature.

You'll explore the interventions available in your chosen area at a local, national, and global level, as well as the barriers and driving forces to these interventions, ultimately considering their suitability for use in your own practice. As you progress, you'll develop the ability to inform practice and influence policy, generating an argument for addressing this area at a population, as well as individual, level.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the measures being undertaken to address your chosen issue in the communities where you work, and an awareness of local, national, and international attempts at addressing it, and how communities are engaged in the process.

This is a blended learning course. You'll learn mostly online, with two in-person sessions in either Cambridge or Chelmsford.

You'll be assessed though a 1,500-word case study, as well as practice reflections, where you'll reflect upon and analyse attempts made to address your issue of choice in your own practice areas, using new information to inform future practice.