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Postgraduate Certificate
Applied Commissioning
60 Credits
- Duration:
- Six months
- Start Dates:
- June 2012
- Attendance:
- Seven study days
- Venue:
- Uxbridge Campus
- Cost:
- Available on request
- Key Contact:
- Luke O'Byrne
- Tel:
- 01494 522 141
- Email:
- luke.o’byrne@bucks.ac.uk
- Key Contact:
- Agnes Fanning
- Tel:
- 01491 522 141
- Email:
- agnes.fanning@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
Applied Commissioning will appeal to busy professionals as it focuses on challenges that you face in your work. The assignments are based on projects that you are undertaking. It is designed and taught by experts with experience in commissioning and procuring services in a wide range of specialities at strategic and operational levels.
This course will be of interest to commissioners working in health and social care settings and practitioners wishing to redesign pathways and transform services including:
• Adult and Children’s services Joint Commissioners who are assisting Councils and Clinical Commissioning Groups to develop more integrated services
• People working in Clinical Commissioning Groups, specialist commissioning roles and the National Commissioning Board including GPs and other professionals and commissioning staff
• Practitioners who are looking to move forward the personalisation and Big Society agendas in their area
• Staff from provider organisations who have responsibilities for transforming the way that services are delivered including the “care closer to home” agenda.
Overview
Three forces, demography, increased public expectations and most urgently tightening financial circumstances are making it particularly critical for organisations to improve the effectiveness of their commissioning. In response to this Bucks New University have developed a part-time, work based Applied Commissioning course. The course consists of two 30 credit modules:
• Contemporary Issues in Commissioning
• Reflective Portfolio Module
The course can be delivered to a group of individual students from a variety of organisations or to teams from one or more organisations. Bucks New University are very interested in working with whole systems (Clinical Commissioning Groups, Councils and Provider organisations) to help you to tackle complex whole system projects such as transforming pathways for older people and have recently run the course for a Children’s Trust with Commissioners and Strategic Managers from Social Care and Health Service backgrounds.
Structure
Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Commissioning (60 credits)
The course consist of two 30 credit modules that are taken at the same time.
Content
• Contemporary Issues in Commissioning
This module provides the opportunity to develop a deep understanding about how to use elements of the commissioning cycle to assist in the transformation of public services. Your learning will be captured in a portfolio and used to demonstrate progress towards the commissioning National Occupational Standards.
• Reflective Portfolio Module
This module provides the opportunity to develop skills of critical reflection and to self-assess and identify your own strengths and future learning needs. It provides opportunities to reflect upon and evaluate selected pieces of commissioning activity, whilst reflecting upon the processes involved in effective engagement with a wide range of stakeholders to develop and implement high quality services.
What will I learn?
Applied Commissioning will:
• Improve your skills in the commissioning services that meet the needs of local users and patients and improve outcomes.
• Assist you to understand the context of commissioning within a rapidly changing policy agenda across Health, Children’s Services and Adult Social Care.
• Enable you to develop a critical understanding of commissioning models within the context of the latest research and policy developments.
• Allow you to explore the relationship between national policy, research and implementation at a local level.
• Develop your understanding of, and expertise in applying theoretical elements of commissioning to your work, assisting you to make more effective decisions and strengthening your practice.
• Enable you to apply the relevant knowledge and skills to develop, implement and review a key aspect of the commissioning process
• Develop your self directed learning, critical thinking, originality, innovation and self evaluation skills.
• Encourage you to reflect critically on your practice and evaluate how your learning is helping you to contribute to delivering organisational goals more effectively.
Entry requirements
Applicants would normally have achieved second class honours in a degree. Alternatively, candidates with professional qualifications and directly relevant work experience may be considered. For non-native speakers of English: IELTS 6.0 overall, 6.0 in writing.