Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year (full-time), 2 years (part-time)
A one-year to 16-month full-time or two-year to
This course is designed to support students who wish to move into managerial positions within the health services industry and who wish to complement their previous professional or academic qualifications or to build upon workplace experience. The course combines insights to both public and private health care services with contemporary management theory.
The market for health services is global and continues to grow. Demographic changes and advances in health service knowledge are driving forward a need for health service managers who can organise large and complex operations and
This course is taught by the University of Chester’s Warrington School of Management and the Faculty of Health and Social Care, ensuring that contemporary management practice meets cutting-edge industry knowledge. Many sessions are delivered by management and health service practitioners to ensure an applied context.
A first degree in a complementary area, usually 2:2 or above, and/or suitable work experience, is required.
Applicants whose first language is not English must provide evidence of proficiency to IELTS 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in each band or equivalent.
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Successful candidates may find careers in health services and care for the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. This may be within organisations which are both centralised (for example within public hospitals or private health or caring facilities) or those that operate within and across communities. The health services supply chain is an extensive network of organisations which holds opportunities for those candidates who understand the business environment and how to deliver excellent products and services.
Develop an understanding of how human resource strategies and operations can be designed and used to develop a high-performing workforce and ensure a productive and rewarding working environment.
Understand the importance of creativity, how to manage improvement, innovation processes and the management of people that lead to great products and services.
Explore the need for and importance of commissioning for supplying critical aspects of health services and operations and develop strategies for managing the introduction of initiatives arising from this.
Study the critical aspects of finance for an organisation including interpreting accounts, identifying flows of funds, appraising investments and how to develop budgets to manage operations.
This module explores the role and responsibilities that the leader plays in teams, organisations and societies within the context of private, public and not-for-profit health-care sectors and their need for awareness of self within these processes.
Learn how a range of research skills can be developed to ensure that you can frame a problem, discover the current knowledge associated with it and develop methods for its systematic investigation.
Select a management or operational challenge for an area of the health services management which particularly interests you and design a study to investigate and examine the issues for the area. Produce a report to address the issues making clear recommendations for resolution and further work.
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