A 'heads up' announcement for a programme launch in January 2025
The University of Greenwich is proud to be offering a UKAFNP-inspired Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Forensic Practice for Health Care Professionals
The programme - for both the "Custody" and "Adult Sexual Offences" routes - will consist of three modules:
- Clinical Assessment for Advanced Forensic Practice (20 credits) (School of Health Sciences)
- Legal Skills for Health Care Professionals (20 credits) (School of Law and Criminology)
- Leading and Managing Complexity for Care in Custody / Sexual Offences Services (20 credits) (Health Sciences)
The programme
The programme follows the ASET (Advanced Standards for Education and Training) of the UK Association for Forensic Nurses and Paramedics (UKAFNP), endorsed by the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine (FFLM).
The one year programme and will run twice a year, with September and January intakes, the first aiming to be January 2025
We got 6 commendations at validation! (18 November 2024)
- speed at developing the programme, from initial idea through to validation
- collaboration (with UKAFNP, the Met Police Nursing team and others)
- open and transparent, at every stage of development
- passion and enthusiasm of the development team
- range of assessment styles (including the digitally creative formats)
- listening to student voices (at every stage)
Our aim?
To develop a compassionate and authentic programme of excellence!
Each of the modules will comprise of some hybrid on-campus (mainly Avery Hill and Greenwich Maritime) learning opportunities ...
... provided by a range of expert educators in teaching, learning and research; state-of-the-art forensics and simulation; advanced clinical practice; mental health; criminology; nursing and paramedic science. We will also be drawing on experts from your respective fields of practice.
A key element of the whole learning process:
The UKAFNP Competencies Document is the student's own work-based learning record, demonstrating and assessing their "knowledge, skills and attitudes as well as reflection on key issues relating to the achievement of the competencies". The achievement of these competencies is under the supervision / preceptorship or an approved mentor, an essential requirement to gain the UKAFNP ASET certificate.
Other teaching and learning provision will be delivered live, on-line, and through numerous asynchronous and self-directed opportunities.
Creative digital literacy will be embedded throughout our teaching, learning and assessment (TL&A) processes, with inspirational and innovative educators enabling students to advance their practice, disseminate their learning to peers and continue their academic journey further.
The PGCert relates to a number of other academic post graduate programmes, in Health Care Practice (PGDip and MA), Advanced Clinical Practice (MSc) and Genders, Sexuality and Criminology (MSc).
Are you wondering about the assignments?
The assignments incorporate specific requirement from UKAFNP and the University of Greenwich, and are designed to be authentic (i.e. relevant to your world of work and studies), compassionate and equitable - doing our very best to remove inequity and 'level the playing field', giving everyone a personal chance of excelling and doing their very best. The assignments also help you boost your academic citizenship, i.e. claiming your place in the world of learning and academia-for-practice.
The marked ("summative") assignments are all built on excellent instruction on how to achieve them, through the "formative", preparatory work.
"You said / we did"
Listening to those with the forensic health care practice expertise, we are making this programme, and all aspects of the Teaching, Learning and Assessments, directly in response to what you need to be an Advanced-level Forensic Health Care Professionals.
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