**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.** <br/><br/>**Course summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Develop the skills you need to be a leader in health and social care.<br/><br/><br/>- Gain essential, qualifications for senior positions.<br/><br/><br/>- Learn to lead strategically – evaluating and improving services at both systems and service levels.<br/><br/><br/>Leadership has consistently been shown to be key to the effective delivery of health and social care services. Indeed, lack of leadership has been cited as a major cause of most health and social care system failures. On this course, you will learn how to lead effectively and make sustainable improvements to health and social care services.<br/><br/>**How you learn:**<br/><br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>We help you to develop the skills you need to successfully lead across the many facets of health and social care provision. Through engaging in learning and assessment tasks, you have the opportunity to actively improve service delivery throughout the programme.<br/><br/>Youll learn to understand strategic system level issues, solve organisational problems and devise, implement and evaluate successful service improvement initiatives. Youll also learn to strengthen teamwork, motivation, commitment and effort, and thereby improve service user outcomes.<br/><br/>You will learn through<br/><br/><br/>- lectures and seminars<br/><br/><br/>- workshop–style sessions<br/><br/><br/>- live projects<br/><br/><br/>- extensive independent reading and study<br/><br/><br/>- self–reflection,<br/><br/><br/>- peer and tutor engagement<br/><br/><br/>- blended learning approaches<br/><br/><br/>- online learning<br/><br/><br/>- written assessments<br/><br/><br/>- case studies<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning - Live projects**<br/><br/>As a student on our unique MSc programme you will maximise your learning by engaging in real world assignments. All course assessments centre on service delivery and improvement, giving you the opportunity to actively display and practice leadership. This means that you will not only gain enhanced knowledge of evidence–based management and leadership theories, but also develop the practical skills you require to lead more effectively in the workplace.<br/><br/>**Future careers**<br/>This course prepares you for<br/><br/><br/>- leadership and management positions in the NHS or other health or social care providers<br/><br/><br/>- further studies<br/>