Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management is designed to enable learners to develop

• A sound understanding of policy,
• Management theory, and
• Practice in health and social care.

Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management is for experienced managers and leaders working in health or social care within the public, private and volunteer, or independent sectors in the UK and abroad. It provides learners with an opportunity to engage with the challenges facing professionals, services users and policymakers in the United Kingdom today. It will create individuals’ knowledge and skills to work as an effective manager or leader in the hospital or health / social care organisation. It combines both theoretical and practical knowledge of health and social care.

At the end of the course, a graduate is expected to be able to:

• Develop managerial skills to manage quality in the health and social care sector.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the health and social care organisations and their management system.
• Manage budget and perform financial analysis to the health and social care organisations for effective decision making.
• Manage complex issues in the organisation to improve management practice.
• Perform environmental analysis for strategic marketing decision making to implement the strategy.
• Manage team performance for the quality of service delivery in health and social care organisation.
• Understand advanced economic literature on the demand and supply of health care.
• Critically review the role of agencies and healthcare organisations in the promotion of health initiatives globally.
• Understand strategic human resource techniques and tools to manage employees’ performance.
• Apply advanced research techniques and tools to create new literature on the health and social care sector.

 

Description

The overall structure of Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management is based on eight modules covering several topics relating to learning outcomes. Each module is equivalent to 15 credits, and at the end of the course, learners will achieve 120 credits.

Module 1: Managing Service Delivery in Health and Social Care

In this unit, learners will learn effective management and leadership skills for efficient and effective service delivery in health and social care organisations. You will learn how to plan, organise, control, manage and check techniques for good service delivery.

Module 2: Managing Finance in Health and Social Care

Students explore key concepts and frameworks for accounting and finance and learn how to interpret their financial reports. Students will also become familiar with financial statements, budgets and data, and financial and non-financial performance indicators. These highly applicable techniques can be used to drive company success.

Module 3: Managing Enterprise in Health and Social Care

This unit aims to develop learner knowledge of the processes and behaviours involved in developing enterprise in health and social care administration from various perspectives informed by theory, research and professional practice.

Module 4: Strategic Marketing for Health and Social Care

This unit aims to develop a strategic marketing focus and link it to health and social care organisations’ strategy process.

Module 5: The Economics of Health Care

This unit aims to provide students with an understanding of issues, especially the microeconomics analysis of health care. Learners will understand principles and applications of the world economy, the cost-benefit literature, welfare economics and public finance, consumer theory and industrial economics. It aims to establish a critical awareness of integrating theory, data, and analysis into health care economics.

Module 6: Strategic Management and Change

Healthcare has continued to experience significant environmental change, including technological breakthroughs in gene research and therapy and bio-engineering, economic and competitive pressure that have altered the industry. This unit aims to explore strategic management tools to manage health care organisations in a dynamic and changing environment.

Module 7: Research Methods for Managers

In this module, you will be able to develop a critical understanding of the different assumptions underlying research into the health or social sciences and the nature and status of research methodology, and at the end, you understand how to write a research report by data collection, analysis, conclusions and presentation of data.

Module 8: Managing Quality through Human Resource Management

Health and social care organisations today face unprecedented challenges. These challenges are obliging organisations to redesign their internal structures and policies. New people management strategies are at the center of these organisational changes. This unit examines the character of these people management strategies in modern organisations.

Module 9: Strategic Project Management for Managers

This unit will develop strategic decision-making for learners in the health and social care sector to drive the organisation’s value from strategy execution through strategic projects.

 

Qualification Credits and Duration

We offer flexible duration. The minimum time to complete the qualification is six months. If you want to spend 9-12 or more than 12 months, we can offer you without extra charge.  The minimum credits are 120, and the maximum credits are 135.

 

How will you study?

Our learning portal will be available to you study 24/7. You can use your Desktop Computer, Laptop, Mobile or Tablet anytime in a flexible way to study entirely online.

 

Assessment Methods

Each unit assessed with an assignment.

 

Results and Certificate

Learners must complete eight units successfully and achieve 120 credits. The awarding body, EBMA, will issue the qualification certificate and final transcript.

 

Who is this course for?

Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management is useful for individuals from all over the world who are already on the job for personal and professional development or re-entering employment after a period of absence in the health management, health or social care and for those who are seeking a career change in the health or social care sector. Most individuals in this course are working professionally in managerial positions. This course is exceptionally suitable for senior managers and leaders in the same sector.

 

Careers

Most of the students in this qualification are working professionals such as those who manage and lead small or medium-sized care homes or work in the hospital or National health service. They study this qualification for professional development. Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management enhances learners’ professional practice in their area of responsibilities, research, administration, management and leadership skills and also enable you to study a Doctorate Degree with us or register for MSC Health and Social Care Management with research theme in Health, care or social care.

 

Double Awards – Level 7 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management (EBMA) qualification holders are eligible to claim OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management via recognition of prior learning, subject to the registration fees and the quality assurance. For more information, contact us at info@cmls-global.com. Achieving additional OTHM diploma in health and social care management enhance learners progression to the UK University MSC degree in health and social care management a the dissertation stage.

 

Progression to Level 8 Qualification

Holders of EBMA Level 7 Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care Management are eligible to the following qualification

• Qualifi Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership (Qualifi, 160 credits).

Level 8 diplomas are taught programmes on the Regulated Qualification Framework (RQF). They also sit on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) at level 8, equivalent to DF-EHEA third cycle qualifications, comparable to the doctorate level of study. Level 8 qualification represents knowledge, skills, and competencies recognised in academic terms as comparable to Doctoral Degrees and Vocational Qualifications at Level 8.