Enhanced Practice (Radiography) PGDip

Overview

This programme aims to help meet the increasing demand for advanced clinical practitioners in radiography who can safely undertake expert clinical practice, and inform clinical decision-making across the NHS and the independent (private) sector.

It's been designed to develop your skills in complex reasoning, critical thinking and analysis, and meet the requirements needed to undertake enhanced and advanced clinical practice roles.

Learning and assessment

This programme will:

provide an educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs and the organisational needs of employers

stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning

develop your reporting skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level

further develop your cognitive and practical skills to undertake data synthesis and complex problem solving

develop you as a leader with the skills and confidence to act as a role model, supporting the professional development of colleagues and the work of your organisation

develop you as a critically reflective competent leader who will manage service development towards effective, sustainable, inclusive, fair and ethically sensitive service provision

Career prospects

You will become an autonomous practitioner who can work in advanced and specialist roles with high levels of accountability.

Students must: hold a BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography (or equivalent) qualification, hold registration as a radiographer with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), have managerial support for their studies, including a commitment that appropriate facilities, relevant clinical experience and time (average 15 hours per week) will be made available to support your studies, have an identified educational supervisor (radiologist or experienced advanced/consultant radiographer) in practice that can support you.