Healthcare Management MSc (Armed Forces)

Management and leadership in the healthcare sector is increasingly important worldwide. And with The World Health Organization placing greater emphasis than ever before on the need for managers to have appropriate competencies, and the NHS promoting specific values and principles of care, an Armed Forces Healthcare Management MSc is a valuable tool in the development of healthcare services.

You’ll learn how healthcare organisations operate in today’s climate whilst developing the full range of management skills needed to help organisations achieve their strategic ambitions, exploring insights from the business world to further your understanding. You’ll be able to use these skills to develop approaches to management and leadership and be well equipped to put in place mechanisms which support the development of organisational learning.

You'll explore the important social factors, and others, which influence managing and leading both organisations and individuals, learning with other current and aspiring managers and leaders from a range of health and social care organisations from around the world.

Advanced Professional Decision Making

This module responds to the continuously changing nature of service design and redesign of health and social care systems informed by a constituted legal framework for practice. You’ll prepare for more autonomous and more integrated organisational roles and functions and utilise both strategic and operational decision-making skills at an advanced level to accommodate national strategic intentions. You’ll be encouraged to focus on new or advanced areas of service development whilst acknowledging the ethics, legislation, and quality assurance requirements for effective organisational decision-making.

Organisational Transformation in Health and Social Care

The ability to accept rapid and significant change is a pre-requisite for organisational survival. This capability to adopt change rather than merely adapt to it is one of the major hallmarks of a learning organisation. The capacity of an organisation to learn is crucial to keeping pace with national, local, or international challenges, and on this module, you’ll explore cross cultural examples of health and social care and how the management of change is influenced by the environment in which it is implemented.

Global Leadership

Organisations, whether private, public or third sector, operate in a world facing a range of urgent global issues. You’ll examine the fitness of businesses and individuals to tackle such issues, based on the Global Leadership model developed by lecturers at ARU, which covers effective decision making, adoption of a global approach, creation of a new business paradigm and creation of a contemporary mission. You’ll also consider the related concept of mis-leadership, which looks at how leaders have often failed to achieve the optimum outcomes for those they lead.

Postgraduate Research Design

This module is designed to give you the necessary tools to identify and plan research in order to address real-world problems within your practice or address existing knowledge gaps within your field. The module will provide a framework allowing you to propose and justify a research question and design appropriate to your professional practice.

Major Project

The Major Project is central to the Masters award and enables you to demonstrate your ability to synthesise learning from previous modules and use your learning as the basis for planning, conducting and writing up a research or work-based project.

Assessment

How you’ll be assessed will vary between modules. This is in order to assist you in developing submission evidence for Management and Leadership professional recognition later. Assignments include the production of reports, essays, a portfolio, and Major Project.

Dr Nebil Achour, PhD, MSc, BSc 

Nebil is our Course Leader for the MSc and has a vast amount of expertise in the resilience of healthcare to major hazards, about which he has published over 50 scientific articles and reports. He was also a member of the global WHO Hospital Safety Index revision panel.

After gaining a BSc in Civil Engineering from the Tunis Advanced School of Science and Technology, Tunisia, Dr Achour worked in private engineering and design firms on designing structures and training engineers in several countries. Granted a Japanese Government Scholarship to further his education, he gained his MSc with a focus on the response of hospital lifeline systems following seismic activities and his PhD on hospital's fragility assessment in 2004 and 2007 respectively from Kanazawa University.

Following his graduation, he was then employed as a Post-doctoral Researcher in his graduate University. He joined Loughborough University in September 2007 as a Research Associate. He coordinated the research activities of the £11million HaCIRIC research centre, and the CPM WBDL MSc Course. He was awarded the Best Paper Award during the CIB World Congress 2010, and the Highly Commended Paper in the 2016 and 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Nebil is actively involved in national and international research and consultancy activities and interested in exchanging knowledge with academics and practitioners, specifically those working on similar topics.

Our Healthcare Management MSc is studied 100% online.

You’ll study through Canvas, our world-class online Learning Management System (LMS), which can be accessed from your phone, PC or tablet at home or on the move. Canvas provides instant access to study materials, forums, and support from tutors and classmates, as well as enabling easy submission of your assignments.

On successful completion of your studies, you’ll be invited to attend a graduation ceremony on campus. If attending the ceremony in person is not possible then we’ll arrange to have your certificate sent to you.

To help you land your dream job, our Employability Service will work with you throughout your time at ARU and after you graduate.

We offer:

• careers advice, including one-to-one online and telephone appointments with our experienced advisers
• help with your CV, job searches, applications, and interview preparation
• an online portal packed with useful careers resources
• our Employability Programme, which helps you hone the skills employers say they want in graduates.

Applicants should ideally have a good first degree or equivalent and be currently working in, or have recently worked within, the arena of Management and Leadership in healthcare.

A professional qualification isn’t a necessity for access to the course, but you must meet the criteria above and demonstrate a strong interest in Management and Leadership.

If English is not your first language, you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

As a distance learner, you'll also need a suitable computer with internet connection, together with sufficient IT competence to make effective use our online learning management system (LMS) with high-speed internet and email.

For non-graduates, non-traditional entry routes to the course may be possible by clearly demonstrating on your application that your qualifications and experience are equivalent to an Honours degree.

Various entry points are available depending on accreditation against military training. For more information on the options available to you, get in contact with us

Fees

The full tuition fee for this course is £7,300.

The tuition fees you pay each year for the full Healthcare Management MSc will be £3,650. The course is studied over 2 years.

Accredited prior learning may reduce the tuition fees. This will be confirmed once your application has been submitted.

If you have completed certain RAF qualifications, then you may be eligible for an advanced entry route which would reduce the cost of the course to £4,866.87. Please contact us for more information.

Funding

Your course can be fully funded by the new Postgraduate Student Loans now available (subject to eligibility).

We offer payment by instalments, so you can spread the cost of studying with us.

You can use your ELCs towards this course. Anglia Ruskin University is a recognised ELCAS provider (number 1007). Please contact your Learning Centre for details of ELC, eligibility and how to apply.

For more information on how you fund your studies please see our funding page.

Health care is a demanding sector, that has undergone rapid changes in a short space of time and is in need of dedicated and knowledgeable leaders. 

Every day as a healthcare manager will provide you with new challenges allowing you to build skills and resilience that you can then apply to your current role in order to climb the career ladder.

An Armed Forces Healthcare Management MSc will build upon your existing armed forces experience in order to maximise your leadership talents to inspire those working with you and under you to undertake lifechanging work. 

Whether you’re in the armed forces and looking to advance your skills in a management position or are working towards your post-military service career goals, this online MSc will prepare you for the challenging world of healthcare management.

There is an ever-growing demand for healthcare managers, so if you’re looking to develop valuable skills to aid your work as an armed forces medic, or even advance your healthcare career once you leave military service, a healthcare management Masters will set you on the right track.

If you’re considering a career in healthcare management after you leave the service, starting your studies while you’re still in the armed forces will not only allow you to enhance your learning with your current work experience, but allow you continue working while you learn.

An Armed Forces Healthcare Management MSc will allow you to demonstrate your knowledge and skills, making you an appealing candidate to employers. You’ll gain the skills and experience you need to thrive in a variety of workplace environments and managerial positions, setting you on the path to reach your goals.

Most of our students for this Masters in healthcare management have a an undergraduate degree, however there are some cases where we do also accept students who don’t have a degree but have the equivalent workplace experience. 

This course is aimed at those who are currently serving in the armed forces and are looking to either grow their career as an army, navy, or air force medic, or are preparing for a career after they leave the armed forces. 

We understand that there are unique challenges faced by armed forces students, and we aim to provide all of our students with the highest quality of distance learning. We seek to ensure that your experience as a serving online learner is as straightforward as possible; including an option for advanced entry to armed forces personnel, based on rank and experience

Our distance learning Armed Forces Healthcare Management MSc seeks to equip you with an essential understanding of organisational practices and structures, and your experience in the armed forces will help to inform your learning.

The leadership skills that you gain will allow you to play an influential and life changing role in steering healthcare organisations in new directions that will improve not only patient care but improve the working environment of those in the sector. 

Your work in the armed forces may have given you a greater insight into the national and international perspectives of healthcare sectors, and this course aims to prepare you for the ever-evolving nature of healthcare; encouraging you to supplement your learning with your own world experience. You’ll examine and implement a range of cultural and global perspectives and consider the different factors that go into healthcare decision making. 

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