Professional Development: Expert Practice in Delivering Person-Centred Dementia Professional Award

This online award provides you with evidence-based interventions to support health and social care staff to safely reduce medication, restrictive practices and improve quality of life for people living with dementia. Developed from the ‘Focussed Intervention Training and Support (FITS) into Practice’ research programme, it is one of the only evidence-based models for care settings of people with dementia, complex needs and distressed behaviour. <br/><br/>The course is designed to equip students from a variety of professional backgrounds with the skills, materials and know-how to deliver a practice-based programme to frontline health and social care staff Those undertaking this module can deliver this programme many times over and form an ongoing community of practice. <br/><br/>The course will reflect the learning outcomes in the Dementia Training Standards Framework and students who complete this double module can leave with this Postgraduate Award or use it towards the Postgraduate Certificate in Person-Centred Dementia Studies. <br/><br/>**Key features**<br/><br/><br/>- A fully online supportive learning environment which utilises a flexible, multidisciplinary, student-centred route to postgraduate achievement<br/><br/><br/>- A course structured around the values of academic freedom, ethical awareness and critical appraisal<br/><br/><br/>- Stimulating learning conditions in which students gain the confidence to feel they can shape future dementia care by challenging and enhancing current practice and approaches<br/><br/><br/>- A course which critically reflects on the FITS (Focussed Intervention Training and Support) into Practice programme, its implementation and relevant emerging evidence in the field<br/><br/><br/>**Learn more about the course at our Open Days**<br/><br/>Visiting us is the best way to get a feel for student life at the University of Worcester. Youll find out more about the course, and have the opportunity speak to staff, students and recent graduates about what it’s really like to study at Worcester.<br/><br/>Book your place at www.worcester.ac.uk/open-days<br/><br/>**Why the University of Worcester?**<br/><br/>The University of Worcester is a close-knit and high-achieving community where students are supported to succeed at every level.<br/><br/>The University is a truly inclusive place where every person counts as an individual. From designing imaginative facilities to providing practical support and tailored learning, we strive to help people of all backgrounds and abilities to achieve their own rich potential. We work hard to break down barriers and provide opportunities for all.<br/><br/>**Recent University of Worcester achievements**<br/>- For almost three decades, the University of Worcester has been educating professionals to work in the health and social care sectors, from Nurses and Midwives to Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, Paramedics to Physician Associates. Each year, hundreds of professionals graduate from Worcester and go on to make a significant contribution to society. The University’s new medical school welcomed its first cohort of students in September 2023. The Three Counties Medical School will help to address the pressing need for more doctors in this left-behind part of the Country.<br/><br/><br/>- Worcester rose to become the number one English university (excluding specialist institutions) for sustained employment, further study, or both, three and five years after graduation in the 2022 Government-published Longitudinal Educational Outcomes survey, having been in the top 10 in 2020 and 2021. 96% of our graduates are in work or further study 15 months after graduating (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022).<br/><br/><br/>- The University of Worcester has been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Quality Education in the Times Higher Education’s University Impact Rankings every year since its inception in 2019. The University has also been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Gender Equality in all years of the rankings and currently holds the number one spot (2023).<br/>