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Senior People Professional Apprenticeship leading to Strategic Human Resource Management MSc

  • DeadlineStudy Details: PgDip approximately 24 months (including end-point assessment) + optional MSc top-up (6 months)

Course Description

The Senior People Professional Apprenticeship aims to develop Human Resource (HR) professionals to take a strategic approach in championing the people agenda, future-proof the workforce, develop inclusive cultures and an engaging employee experience journey while creating high-performing work environments where employees flourish in their work and wellbeing.

This course enables practitioners to develop a theory-informed and evidence-based approach to HR practice with a focus on real-world application across different organisational contexts and industries. Students develop critical thinking, an ethical mindset and practical HR skills, putting humans at the heart of organisations and their HR professional practice.

This course meets the knowledge, skills and behaviours of the Level 7 Senior People Professional Apprenticeship Standard (HR Pathway).

Students who are not funded by the Apprenticeship Levy via their employer may enrol on the Strategic Human Resource Management MSc.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Drawing on expert faculty and cutting-edge research in the Changing World of Work Group at Cranfield University, this course equips Senior People Professionals to manage effectively across the employee lifecycle, covering focal areas such as:

  • Strategic workforce planning
  • Talent acquisition and employee resourcing
  • Talent management and development
  • Performance management
  • Reward management
  • Organisational behaviour
  • Human Resource professional ethics
  • People analytics
  • Equality, diversity, and inclusion
  • Employee engagement
  • Employee wellbeing
  • Employment relations
  • Employment law
  • Sustainability and green Human Resource Management
  • Agile HR
  • Designing and implementing a people strategy
  • Employee experience across the employee lifecycle.

The key skills required by HR leaders and Strategic HR Business Partners are embedded as core components of this course such as HR consulting, leadership, change management, project management, influencing stakeholders with impact, developing actionable insight with HR data analytics and research methods, coaching and mentoring, business acumen, commercial insight and understanding how external trends and internal drivers influence organisational strategy, business models and the people strategy.

Module Details

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