Postgraduate Diploma Community Specialist Practitioner (Children's Nursing)
The Community Specialist Practice Qualification (SPQ) programme is designed to equip postgraduates with the skills required for community specialist practice and there are four pathways to choose from: District Nursing, General Practice Nursing, Adult Social Care Nursing and Community Children’s Nursing.
As a Children’s Community Nurse (CCN) your role is pivotal in supporting babies, children, young people, and their families through their early years, very often with life limiting, life threatening, complex, and acute health needs. We know there has been a steep rise in the complexity of the care needed in recent years and with this comes complex ethical decision making, enhanced technology and working across multiple agencies including health, education, social care, private and voluntary agencies. This programme will enhance your current skills and knowledge, developing your autonomy, decision making and leadership skills and critical approach in further developing services to meet the growing needs of babies, children, young people, and their families. We hope that you will enjoy learning in a stimulating environment with other passionate practitioners where you can learn from others experience as well as through activity and work-based learning. This is an exciting opportunity to develop yourself into a community specialist practitioner to further develop and improve services for babies, children, young people, and their families.
Each pathway has a distinct approach to its delivery; however, all share a more practice focused delivery, with a 60/40 split between clinical practice and protected learning time at Northumbria University respectively. This ensures that the specialist field of practice focuses on the specialist skills required for the pathway and is evident in the optional modules and as pathway-focused learning and teaching across all modules.
Students also benefit from integrated learning with fellow community specialist practitioner students. This programme has been innovatively designed and coproduced with a vast range of stakeholders from all pathway routes in both health and social care, to truly reflect contemporary specialist practice, need and service provision requirements.
The Community Specialist Practice Qualification (SPQ) programme is designed to equip postgraduates with the skills required for community specialist practice and there are four pathways to choose from: District Nursing, General Practice Nursing, Adult Social Care Nursing and Community Children’s Nursing.
As a Children’s Community Nurse (CCN) your role is pivotal in supporting babies, children, young people, and their families through their early years, very often with life limiting, life threatening, complex, and acute health needs. We know there has been a steep rise in the complexity of the care needed in recent years and with this comes complex ethical decision making, enhanced technology and working across multiple agencies including health, education, social care, private and voluntary agencies. This programme will enhance your current skills and knowledge, developing your autonomy, decision making and leadership skills and critical approach in further developing services to meet the growing needs of babies, children, young people, and their families. We hope that you will enjoy learning in a stimulating environment with other passionate practitioners where you can learn from others experience as well as through activity and work-based learning. This is an exciting opportunity to develop yourself into a community specialist practitioner to further develop and improve services for babies, children, young people, and their families.
Each pathway has a distinct approach to its delivery; however, all share a more practice focused delivery, with a 60/40 split between clinical practice and protected learning time at Northumbria University respectively. This ensures that the specialist field of practice focuses on the specialist skills required for the pathway and is evident in the optional modules and as pathway-focused learning and teaching across all modules.
Students also benefit from integrated learning with fellow community specialist practitioner students. This programme has been innovatively designed and coproduced with a vast range of stakeholders from all pathway routes in both health and social care, to truly reflect contemporary specialist practice, need and service provision requirements.
