Healthcare Leadership University of Hull

Overview

Through the Healthcare Leadership programme from University of Hull Online you’ll learn how to adopt a diligent, systematic, and evidence-based approach to your practice through the transformative concepts introduced during your studies. As a student of the course, you can expect to:

• Explore leadership as a dynamic and contestable concept

• Engage in critical self-reflection and the impact of self on others

• Learn how to conduct insightful and informed decision making

• Build knowledge of the system and policy context in which healthcare leadership exists

• Gain an in-depth appreciation of the rational, emotional, and political aspects of changing services and practice

• Recognise the necessity of critical and systematic enquiry and continuous learning in and through action

The programme encompasses leadership approaches and challenges from across the healthcare spectrum – helping you visualise how your current or future professional role functions within a larger, complex system.

You can look forward to developing the capabilities required to enhance both your own practice and those of whom you work with. You will learn how to reflect on your practice, personality, and approach to become a more effective leader and manager.

The contemporary nature of this leadership and management course also enables students to incorporate up-to-date research in their studies and identify current challenges and opportunities in the industry.

Career opportunities:

Exceptional leadership in healthcare has a vital role to play in the face of growing global health challenges – from aging populations, to financial austerity, to disease outbreaks.

Upon completion of this distance learning course, you’ll hold the skills and understanding needed to serve effectively within management in healthcare, with the ability to challenge both yourself and others to perform to their highest potential.

With a globally relevant education and the ability to communicate, delegate, and influence across all forms of healthcare teams, you can explore a career anywhere in the world.

You’ll be able to make a positive impact on the industry and your community through a variety of roles, such as:

• Healthcare provider leadership (e.g. hospital management, primary care manager)

• Clinical leadership with primary, secondary or tertiary healthcare

• Healthcare commissioner leadership

• Healthcare policy maker (e.g., local government)

• Leadership within professional or regulatory bodies