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What we offer

We offer a variety of innovative programmes at a range of levels for prospective students to choose from that reflect contemporary healthcare challenges and priorities. We offer the following postgraduate and post-experience programmes:

Find out more about Mental Health Nursing
Mental Health Nursing

The MSc in Mental Health Nursing will enable you to become a highly educated nurse with longer term potential for roles in areas such as leadership, consulting, management and education.

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Find out more about MSc Leading People-centred Integrated Care
MSc Leading People-centred Integrated Care

Our MSc in Leading People-Centred Integrated Care is designed to provide a progressive pathway of Masters level study for staff working in the cross-sectoral field of health and social care.

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Find out more about MSc Forensic Mental Health
MSc Forensic Mental Health

Delivered jointly by UWS and the School of Forensic Mental Health (NHS), this course is the only Scottish Master's degree specialising in forensic mental health.

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Find out more about MSc in Dementia Care
MSc in Dementia Care

The MSc in Dementia Care caters for a range of professionals with relevant experience and interest in working with older people.

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Find out more about MSc Mental Health Practice
MSc Mental Health Practice

The MSc in Mental Health Practice is focused on facilitating academic and practice development in those working within environments where mental health is an influence on outcome.

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Find out more about Personality Disorder
Personality Disorder

The Graduate Certificate in Personality Disorder will give you the opportunity to develop specialised knowledge about the needs of people with personality disorder in a variety of settings.

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Find out more about PgDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
PgDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

The PgDip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers training for mental health professionals who wish to use CBT in their practice.

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Practical experience

Teaching on the MSc Mental Health Nursing programme is 50% work-based learning, you’ll be able to put the theory you learn in the classroom into practice in real-life clinical environments. Placement opportunities will be available with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Highland, NHS Dumfries & Galloway, and NHS Ayrshire & Arran.

Most of our other postgraduate and post-experience courses above are studied in conjunction with your own current practice roles, to enable you to apply your learning to your own job or progress your career into other areas.

Funded study for NHS staff

We have Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Argyll Division of NHS Highland and a contract with NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

These arrangements enable staff to access top-up undergraduate, post-experience and postgraduate programmes that are developed on a collaborative basis and are professionally relevant to their sphere of work. Local processes are in operation and students should contact their Practice Development Units or appropriate NHS Board for up-to-date information.

Modular study options

Many of the modules offered at undergraduate and postgraduate level can be undertaken on a standalone basis, or as part of a programme of study. Modules are all credit bearing, allowing you to build towards a named degree pathway. In addition, we offer a wide range of short courses, study days and in-service programmes across our campuses, designed for professionals looking to build on their current practice.

For more information, visit www.uws.ac.uk/study/cpd-short-courses or email HNMCPDEnterprise@uws.ac.uk

Participating in the course has given me insight into the context and constructs of integrated care enabling me to identify and focus on the aims of integrated care in the developments I am leading in the workplace and also communicate them to those I am leading and influencing.

Rhiannon Pitt, MSc Leading People-centred Integrated Care student, and Area Manager South, NHS Highland