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School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

Developing your career

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Already a qualified health professional or social worker?

With a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, choosing to study at The University of Manchester means choosing the best way to extend your knowledge and skills in both practice and research to advance your career.

Options for developing your career

The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work offers a wide range of flexible part-time and full-time Continuing Professional Development courses and awards for qualified health and social care professionals and others working in areas of health and social care. These include:

  • Undergraduate courses for those wishing to top up to a degree
  • Postgraduate taught courses for those who already have a degree
  • Postgraduate research courses for those who wish to specifically develop their knowledge and skills to undertake practice-focused research

Whatever type of course you choose, you can be assured of excellent teaching and learning in a leading research environment, outstanding facilities and support, and an award from a university of which you can truly be proud.

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Working towards a degree?

Are you a nurse or midwife with a diploma who would like to continue studying to degree level part time?

Undergraduate Continuing Professional Development

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Already holding a degree?

We have various postgraduate options for you to consider:

Postgraduate taught programmes

Advanced Professional Health Studies: stand alone units

MSc/PGDip/PGCert:

Mental Health programmes (MSc/PGDip/PGCert) including:

Postgraduate research programmes

(full time or part time)

Do you want to do a short course?

Choose from a wide variety of stand-alone core or specialist modules to keep abreast of practice developments.

Student perspectives

What current/past postgraduates think of the programmes

Gretl McHughGretl McHugh (Former Nursing PhD student)
"As a researcher it sometimes takes a long time to see the outputs of all your hard work but when you do it is very satisfying."

Ros HuntRos Hunt (PhD Social Work student)
"I wanted to do something linked with deafness that was intellectually challenging and had the potential to influence and improve practice."

Becoming a nursing or midwifery mentor

Thinking about becoming a mentor or assessor?

The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work provides mentorship modules at undergraduate level 5 and 6 and at postgraduate level 7 for those who already have a degree. There is a range of options for part-time study including elearning; portfolio and face-face. This module will also be of interest to other health professionals who wish to develop their knowledge and skills to support other pre-registration health professionals e.g. speech and language therapists and audiologists.

Are you already a mentor?
Further information about annual updates is also available.

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