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PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visitor)

Sheffield Hallam University

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Sheffield Hallam University

Course options

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  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Diploma

  • Location

    Collegiate Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 year

Course summary

Course summary

Attain a recorded professional award as a specialist practitioner of health visiting or student nursing
Undertake assessments to have your qualification recorded with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Identify and meet the needs of children and families as a health visitor or student nurse
Build on your existing knowledge as a registered professional nurse
Learn practical and theoretical skills to excel as a valuable and respected community health specialist

This course is aimed at post-registration nurses or midwives who wish to become specialist practitioners. You'll develop your professional nursing practice and become a registered health vistor or student is course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Graduates are eligible to apply to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visitor or School Nurse.
You must be registered with the NMC in order to practise as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in the UK.
To access the full course and gain the NMC recognised qualifications, you need to be sponsored by an employing NHS organisation (hence have NHS contract for the length of the course).

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

In this course, you'll study to attain valuable credentials as a specialist practitioner, either as a health visitor or student nurse. You can also complete the assessments for the prescribing from the community practitioner formulary to become a nurse prescriber. The course is 50% practice and 50% theory - you'll work under the close supervision of the SCPHN teaching team in each instance, who utilise dynamic approaches to teaching practice.

You learn through

Lectures, seminars and workshops
Simulated role plays
Case studies
Client stories
Conducting real consultations under exam conditions
Producing written records of consultations

Future careers

Completing the course enables you to be registered with the NMC as a registered specialist community public health nurse - as either a health visitor or school nurse. It also enables you to be annotated on the NMC register as a community practitioner nurse prescriber.

This course prepares you for a career in

A specialist role - working with early interventions, homeless, asylum seekers, safeguarding, looked after children (LAC), domestic violence (DV), child sexual exploitation (CSE)
Practice education 鈥� community practice educator, mentor
Family nurse partnership nursing (FNP)
Counselling
Sexual health advice
Management opportunities
Overseas with the voluntary overseas service

Tuition fees

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University information

Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University

  • University League Table

    63rd

  • Campus address

    Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 1WB, United Kingdom

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Sheffield is a diverse student city in the centre of the UK that is home to over 60,000 students from all over the world.
Sheffield Hallam's relationships with top international companies helps students access internships and build connections for their future career.
Sheffield Hallam offers a range of scholarships and funding support to help towards the cost of studying in the UK.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Nursing & Midwifery

    44th out of 82 7

    4th out of 32 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 208
    126 60%

    55th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    100.0 100%

    1st

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.78 69%

    75th

    5

  • Entry standards

    / Max 163
    152 93%

    2nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    60.0 60%

    9th

    6

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.16 79%

    18th

    8

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