Information and course overview 3

1: Information and course overview The ‘ICSA Health Service Governance study text Who is the course for?is set out in five parts, each exploring key themes The course is aimed at trust secretaries and governance professionals working within or in association with the National Health Service in England. It has been developed in association with NHS Providers. within the subject matter. Each part is broken into chapters, which include checklists fo r practitioners. These checklists provide a useful starting point for candidates to apply the learning outcomes of each chapter to their own work experiences. It also has Test your knowledge’ This programme guide is aimed at students who questions and ‘Stop and think’ challenges. are taking the Advanced Certificate in Health Service Governance as a short -course Delivery of the cour se qualification. The course content of the Advanced Certificate is based on the Study text and will consist of:

The course has been benchmarked at Level 6 of the UK Higher Education Framework, equivalent to the standa rd of study and assessment at the final year of a UK undergraduate degree. • One -hour interactive webinar sessions with live audio commentary . • Q&A sessions at the end of each presentation, in which the presenter discusses questions rai sed in writing during We suggest a recommended total study time of the session. 200 hours, incorporating all the course input, • Two assignmenttasks which will be set wider reading and the exam. during the course, for which you will receive a grade, written feedback and advice on Where the course sits in the Qualifying your performance. programme • Self -study with the recommended text and text update material. The Advanced Certificate in Health Service Governance is a short -course qualification based • Contact with o ur Student Experience team for queries arising in between webinar on the module ‘Health Service Governance’, which is at Part Oneof the Qualifying programme. presentations. Should you successfully complete the Advanced Certificate course and p ass the exam, you will More detail on how each of these elements work is given in the next section. receive a certificate. You will also be eligible to continue studying the Qualifying programme.

The course content is set out in the syllabus for ‘Health ServiceGovernance’, which is available on the student area of the website, MyCG.

The syllabus content for the course is covered in the recommended text, the ‘ICSA Health Service Governance study text’, third edition, by Claire Lea (ICSA Publishing, 2019). This text is

available on MyCG .