Senior Leader Apprenticeship
Senior Leader Apprenticeship is an exciting work based route towards developing professionally competent senior managers and leaders.

Fees
The total cost of the Senior Leader masters Degree Apprenticeship - Level 7 is:
£14,000
Funding
There are currently two funding models:
If the annual pay bill of your organisation exceeds £3 million you will pay for your apprenticeship training through your levy account.
The government will financially co-support your apprenticeship training contributing 95% of the total cost. The employer will contribute and be invoiced for the remaining 5% of the total cost.
For more information about apprenticeship levy please visit the gov.uk website.
If you need any further information about the fees and/or funding for this apprenticeship please do not hesitate to contact us at apprenticeship@plymouth.ac.uk or call +44(0) 1752 583625.
Year 1:
Organisational Leadership and Strategy: This module will provide apprentices with the knowledge and skills associated with the theory and practice of leadership, management, organisation and strategy. Apprentices will gain a critically informed perspective that enables them to align organisational goals with team performance, creating a diverse and sustainable work-place culture.
Emotion with reason: effective decision making: This module is designed to advance knowledge, understanding and skills for making decisions in workplace situations using evidence based practice. It will facilitate apprentices to take a critical exploration of their own context and evaluate different collaborative approaches involving stakeholders and team members in the decision making process.
Specialisms: Shaping the Environment: building a culture of sustainable relationships OR Shaping the Healthcare Environment: collaborating for shared success: This module is designed to advance knowledge and understanding of how strategy informs personal and operational growth and its symbiotic relationship with the wider working community. Apprentices will advance their leadership skills in influencing teams to build sustainable and inclusive working environments where a culture of team confidence and trust is an embedded ethos.
Year 2:
Innovation and Enterprise: Inspiring change: This module will focus on how leaders fit into organisational communities and influence organisational environments to foster innovative/enterprising activities or behaviours. The relationships between enterprising activity, well-being and corporate social responsibility are examined, and consideration given to how opportunities are identified and how risk enablement facilitates improved organisational performance.
From evidence to design: leading projects: This module uses a work-based learning educational approach which employs apprentices with the opportunity to bring theory and reality together using knowledge, individual learning and practice experience to inspire change and potential growth to the workplace environment. Apprentices will be equipped with the tools to lead, focused enquiry and to critique organisational historical project design within their organisation.
Living project specialsims: Embedding leadership through practice change OR Embedding Healthcare Leadership in Practice: This module is the final synoptic culmination of the programme which is designed to enable apprentices to inspire, implement and evaluate an innovative leadership project under supervision, and to demonstrate project development, delivery and evaluation skills.
A variety of assessment methods are used throughout the programme to enable the students to achieve the learning outcomes for each module. This approach illustrated below contributes to achieving an inclusive and equitable assessment strategy.
@Leadership in healthcare
@Apply your personal industry specialism to the learning content
@Support the embedding of this specialism throughout the programme
Duration: 24 months plus EPA
Hours of study per week: 20% of your contracted working hours released from work to undertake study. As a guide, apprentices should also expect to study for an additional 8 hours per week. Employers are expected to support their apprentice's study by providing a workplace mentor and supporting meetings and assessments.
Delivery type: Blended – predominantly on-line with three on campus face to face days across the two years of study.
Entry requirements: All applicants need to be employed by an organisation who will support the individual’s participation in the programme. Applicants require: A degree at 2:1 or above (or equivalent, including professional qualifications) OR significant management experience and a strong track record of achievements in business and/or relevant professional qualifications.
?Strategy
? Innovation and change
?Enterprise and risk
?Decision making
?Project management
?Shaping the environment
?Engaging employees
?Leading and developing
?People leading and developing people
?Building collaborative relationships