Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership in Healthcare
Validated by University of South Wales
If you aspire to take on management and leadership roles in healthcare, our 1 year, online Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership in Healthcare will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to advance your career.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
If you aspire to take on management and leadership roles in healthcare, our 1 year, online Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership in Healthcare will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to advance your career.
We aim to develop healthcare leaders who can provide organisational leadership and navigate decision making in difficult circumstances, as often experienced by health leaders. Our diploma in healthcare leadership prioritises an organisational culture that is both challenging and varied, with structures to protect patients and ensure knowledgeable, dynamic and capable leadership.
Gain valuable insights into leadership styles as you examine leadership theory and cultivate a better understanding of your own management style and how it can be enhanced. With a strong emphasis on ethical leadership, this programme prepares you to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and lead confidently in high-pressure environments.
Studying our medical leadership and management course online offers you the flexibility to continue to work full-time while studying part-time, logging in daily to our renowned online platform from anywhere in the world at a time that suits you.
We ensure that our PG Diploma in healthcare management is informed by the latest research, allowing you to stay ahead of the curve and remain up to date with constantly emerging industry trends. Our scenario-based education model combines theory and practice, allowing you to develop key leadership skills directly applicable to your daily practice while you are studying.
Module 2: Effective Healthcare Teams
Module 3: Quality, Clinical and Corporate Governance in Healthcare
Module Aims
To apply the theory and practice of Clinical Governance, Quality Improvement and patient safety to complex healthcare settings.
Module Content
This module is aimed at giving the students some theoretical and practical knowledge, likely to be involved in improving patient safety, delivery of quality healthcare and its association with legal aspects. Students will be able to understand the corporate aspects associated with leadership and governance.
Learning Outcomes
Critically appraise the role of clinical governance in improving healthcare organisations.
Systematically navigate the complexities of implementing clinical governance and quality agendas in achieving high quality care and patient safety.
Module 4: People Development
Module Aims
The aim of the module is to examine a variety of individual career development tools and evaluate their role in contributing to overall personal and organisational development.
Module Content
This module covers the practical aspects and topics related to inspiring and motivating the employees. This module covers the practical aspects and will help future leaders in healthcare to understand the practical interventions they apply to get more out of the employees and improve the organisation as a whole.
Learning Outcomes
Critically analyse the role of career development tools in complex healthcare organisations.
Critically appraise the elements of mentoring and coaching and effectively consider ‘wellbeing’ in complex healthcare situations.
Module 5: Strategy and Innovation for Healthcare Leaders
Module Aims
To develop high level skills in understanding the value of strategy and innovation for leaders in healthcare organisations.
Module Content
This module will help students to learn different aspects of strategy and innovation. Students will learn theory and practical aspects, with aim to bring a positive change in the working environment in the organisation. Combining strategy and innovation in one module is aimed at creating theoretical and philosophical connection between different aspects of these two, largely, conceptual modalities.
Learning Outcomes
Critically analyse the role of strategy in achieving aims and objectives within complex healthcare organisations.
Critically evaluate the means of developing a culture of innovation to build effective healthcare organisations for the future.
Module 6: Leading Change in Healthcare Organisations
Module Aims
To develop adaptable leadership skills to proactively lead sustained change within complex healthcare organisational structures.
Module Content
This module combines all the knowledge of previous 5-modules to deliver the most important outcome: “The Change”. Students will be able to understand the difference between Change Leadership and Change Management. Also, what are the resistors to change? What techniques and/or approaches can help guide change?
Learning Outcomes
Critically analyse a range of change models and theories, synthesising and selecting appropriate models for a diverse range of situations.
Critically apply appropriate leadership in implementing change, taking into account the ‘problem’ being addressed, organisational culture, and personal responses to change.
Who is this course for?
This healthcare leadership diploma course is ideal for doctors of any grade and other healthcare professionals who wish to gain vital skills in leadership and how to lead teams effectively. As well as those already in healthcare roles, this medical leadership course online is useful for GP practice managers, pharmacy managers, healthcare directorate managers, nurses, and managers in pharmaceutical companies.
100% Flexible
Expert Led
All of our programmes are authored and developed by world leading experts in their field.
Our faculty are selected due to their subject expertise, experience and teaching abilities to ensure the highest standards of educational excellence.
Career Boosting
Get a University Validated postgraduate qualification in just 1 calendar year instead of 2 academic years.
40% of our alumni reported an increase in salary 2 years after studying with us.
Next Batch Start Date
1st Sep 2025
