Build upon your existing professional skills and knowledge and positively impact the health and wellbeing of individuals through one of our short courses. Our vocational and industry-centred courses will ensure you are prepared to apply your enhanced skills within your chosen field.
Short Courses & Professional Development
Health and Sport Science - Short Courses
Enhance your career opportunities by expanding your knowledge through one of our industry-focussed and relevant courses.

To enable the student to develop a critical understanding of the theories, principles and concepts required to become a leader within advanced district nursing.

This module sets out to enable students to demonstrate a critical understanding of law and ethics in the context of health and social care.

Gain a certificate of competence in intravenous administration at a pace and time that fits in with your work commitments and home life. Having a recognised qualification in intravenous administration allows you to operate seamlessly in a variety of clinical environments, for example as a radiographer allowing you to administer iodinated contrast and radioisotopes in various imaging modalities

This module provides a means to create a bespoke learning framework to support the development of specific professional or clinical skills required for an advanced practice role.

Develop and enhance your digital literacy skills within health and social care. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to support digital transformation and improve the health and well being of people through considering the design and delivery of digital technologies within your area of professional practice.

Enhance your digital skills to transform health and social care! This module equips you with the tools to communicate effectively, share best practices, protect personal data, and tackle digital exclusion. Gain experience in using technology to deliver person-centred care and make a real impact.

This module is designed to equip registered healthcare professionals, whether currently working in aesthetics or aspiring to enter the field, with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental and theoretical principles of contemporary aesthetic practice.

This course introduces the principles of nutrition through the lifespan, exploring the sources, functions, and metabolism of nutrients and how energy balance is measured. The course explores how culture, sustainability, and other factors influence food choices and dietary patterns.

Image interpretation is a skill that is required by a range of healthcare professionals to enhance the service they provide, and the aim of this course is to enable practitioners to develop and/or improve their skills in interpretation of radiographic images of the appendicular skeleton.

Image interpretation is a skill that is required by a range of healthcare professionals to enhance the service they provide, and the aim of this course is to enable practitioners to develop and/or improve their skills in interpretation of radiographic images of the chest.

Develop and enhance your ability to support the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families. Gain the knowledge and skills to analyse the bio-psycho-social factors that influence children, young people and family's development and wellbeing. Explore how to assess these influences holistically and consider evidence-based strategies to offer meaningful support.

Understand public health promotion with evidence-based models and approaches.

Develop your understanding of basic anatomy and physiology throughout the lifespan and in relation to common health conditions.

Do you want to learn more about inequalities and the complex interplay of factors which can cause and perpetuate inequalities in populations and communities, from a global, national and local perspective of health?

Understand the interventions available to improve individual health and wellbeing.

This short course will enable you to extend your scope of practice to include the use of injection therapy. This course is designed to enable you to develop an understanding of the key competencies relating to injection therapy including clinical knowledge, decision-making, pharmacology and the evidence base.

Develop the leadership skills needed to drive change in health and social care. Explore leadership theories, management approaches, and quality improvement models. Learn to navigate strategic, cultural, and organisational challenges while applying change theory to real-world practice. This module promotes your ability to lead with confidence.

This module sets out to enable students to critically reflect on leadership within the context of health and social care.

This module sets out to enable students to critically explore the theories, principles, and concepts which underpin leading improvement in health and wellbeing among populations Nationally and Internationally.

To enable practitioners to develop a critical understanding of the theories, principles and concepts required to become a leader within advanced practice.

This module sets out to enable students to explore and critically analyse contemporary professional leadership practice in their area of health or social care practice in order that they can develop a critical perspective of professional development needs in a practice environment.

