Health Professional as an Educator

This module is suitable for anyone who is involved in education in a clinical context, with students, with patients, or with colleagues.

Module Information

Module code

HE714

Content

Practitioners in health, social care and diverse practice settings have an increasing educational role. The module is designed to enhance the skills necessary to enable you as a health care professional to develop your role as an educator in the work-based setting. It will focus on your educational role with learners, including students, colleagues, service users, families / carers, interprofessional teams, and the public.

In addition, successful completion of this module will provide accreditation with Advance HE (Associate Fellow descriptors, D1).

This module aims to:

Prepare you for educational roles in practice with students from HEI’s, colleagues, service users and other learners in your practice setting.
Promote awareness, analysis, and evaluation of different models of education in the practice setting.
Disseminate good practice in the facilitation, assessment, and evaluation of learning in the practice setting.
Foster interprofessional learning and collaboration.

Entry requirements

Students are normally expected to:

* demonstrate successful completion of an appropriate bachelor first degree from a higher educational (HE) institution in the UK, or equivalent award from a European or overseas HE institution and have evidence of study at level 6 or above

* be a qualified and registered healthcare professional

* be in a role with a significant educational remit or have the opportunity to facilitate the learning of individuals or groups of learners which might include students, staff, patients, carers or members of the public

* undertake a range of teaching and learning activity throughout the module that is in addition to the attendance of the modules.

Assessments

This module assessment has two components, both of which must be passed:

1. Assessment 1 requires participants to submit evidence in form of a plan of at least two delivered teaching or learning activities of HE students in your practice as a word document (500 words)

2. Assessment 2 requires submission of a minimum of 2 examples of participant’s supported learning and teaching practice evidencing the principles they apply to HE students learning within the healthcare setting, how they guide, support and teach them by individual engagement practices and how this impacts learners development as well as their own teaching practice and leadership (2500 words)

The assessment is structured so that the assignment links directly to the Professional Standards Framework (2023) by Advance HE and successful completion leads to the Associate Fellowship Award (D1).

Module lead

Dr Darren Brand

Dr Krishan Garikipati

Module dates

2025-26 Semester 1 – HE714 – Falmer Campus (Dates subject to change) Course Students only

October 7, 8
November 3, 4, 26

Assessment submission date: 20th January 2026

2025-26 Semester 2 – HE714B – Falmer Campus (Dates subject to change) Priority to Course students

February 3, 4,
March 5, 6, 26

Assessment submission date: 19th May 2026

2025-26 Semester 3 – HE714C – Falmer Campus (Dates subject to change)

April 21, 22
May 19, 20
June 16

Assessment submission date: 15th September 2026

Fees

If you are choosing this module as part of a postgraduate or community course, please contact fees@brighton.ac.uk for specific information on the fee for this module

If you are taking this as a single module, the fee is:

2025-26 £870

Further Information

Please contact SHS-CPE-Admissions@brighton.ac.uk for further information about the module

This module can be taken as part of a number of courses including: PG Cert Leading Practice Education, MSc Health and Education MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
MSc Advanced Clinical Practice [Masters Degree Apprenticeship] MSc Advanced Physiotherapy MSc Advanced Podiatry MSc Advanced Occupational Therapy