Strategic Workforce Planning, PG Cert, University of West London

the United Kingdom

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The award	How you will study	Study duration	Course start	Domestic course fees	International course fees
PG Cert	Part-time	1 year	February	GBP 2300	GBP 3700

About Strategic Workforce Planning, PG Cert - at University of West London

Course summary

Overview
Workforce planning is now recognised as one of the key areas of development within health and social care. Effective workforce planning not only benefits good patient care, but can play an important role in supporting the health and social care sectors to meet their service and productivity targets through ensuring that the 'right people are in the right jobs at the right time'.

For workforce planning to be effective, it is important to have people with the right skills who can efficiently deliver this crucial work in the health and social care sectors.

Why choose this course?
The Postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Workforce Planning has been developed in response to the increasing demand for specific training and education of those who are involved in workforce planning. Until recently the provision of workforce planning training and education at a national level has been limited.

Demands from service highlighted the need to:

integrate the workforce planning function with service and finance
focus on long term strategic planning
enable a consistency of approach; raise the profile of and improve perception of the role of workforce planning.

This course will support you to think critically about your role as a workforce planner and the strategic workforce planning requirements of your organisation. You will reflect upon a wide range of influences on workforce planning, critically analyse relevance to current service provision and service improvement in your workplace and demonstrate your ability to draw upon this learning to enhance skills in practice. The course will incorporate a strong emphasis on

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

You should have one of the following:

a first degree from a UK higher education institution (university or college). Normally this would be at 2.1 or above
an NVQ level 5
a professional qualification - eg: CIMA, ACCA, CIPD. This qualification should have been achieved through an examination or assessed route rather than nomination or reputation
a degree or other qualification from a non-UK institution which is comparable in level. The University will require a NARIC certificate to demonstrate equivalence
In exceptional circumstances, experienced planners without this level of qualification will be admitted to the course. In this situation, an application supported by mapping of experience to level 6 SEEC indicators and submission of a recently written work based report will be required. This report should demonstrate both a sound grasp of key policy issues and an ability to analyse, synthesise and evaluate complex ideas.

Additional criteria
You must be working for a health or social care organisation and be sponsored by your line manager or organisational workforce lead. You will need to secure agreement that you can be released to attend all study days.

An essential element of the course is completion of a workforce plan. This should be discussed with line manager or workforce lead prior to attending the induction workshop.

You must not be registered on another course whilst enrolled on this course.

Completion of the University's Post-Graduate course form
This will include submission of a personal statement. The personal statement should include:

reasons for applying for the course
what the student hopes to achieve from the course/future career aspirations.

International entry criteria

International students need to meet our English language requirement at either IELTS at 7.0 or above, and a minimum of 7.0 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening).

In some countries where teaching is in English, we may accept local qualifications. Please visit http://www.uwl.ac.uk/international/your-country to check for local equivalencies.

We offer pre-sessional English language courses if you do not meet these requirements. Find out more about our English Language courses

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