Course Details

Course Code(s):
GCPSWMTPAD
Available:
Part-Time
Intake:
Autumn/Fall
Course Start Date:
September
Duration:
1 or 2 semester options
Award:
Postgraduate Certificate
Qualification:
NFQ Level 9 Minor Award
Faculty: Education and Health Sciences
Course Type: Taught, Professional/Flexible
Fees: For Information on Fees, see section below.

Contact(s):

Name: Dr. Rosie Gowran
Email: sahpgcert@ul.ie
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Brief Description

Next Intake September 2024

The Postgraduate Certificate is newly designed to expand and enhance existing professional knowledge and to produce high quality evidence-based practitioners who are better positioned to develop their individual disciplines as well as the wider health agenda.

During the certificate students will:

  • Discuss professional issues relating to the provision of wheelchair and seating services in differing contexts.
  • Critically examine, compare and contrast the different needs of patients/clients, service providers and models of service. 

The course is taught via blended learning, with on-line and on-campus options, and will provide students with the opportunity to be proactive, reflective and responsible when addressing the complex issues that affect wheelchair and seating provision systems. Through lectures, practicals, tutorials and discussion forums, students will be provided with an opportunity to broaden their perspectives by creatively and collaboratively advancing their knowledge, skills and social attitudes.

On successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:

  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to assessing and managing wheelchair and seating provision for different client groups.
  • Acquire an advanced level of skill, knowledge and clinical reasoning to improve interventions with people with postural seating and wheelchair mobility needs, and to enhance service provision practices.
  • Discuss professional issues relating to the provision of wheelchair and seating services in different contexts.
  • Critically examine, compare and contrast the different needs of patients/clients, service providers and models of service.
  • Integrate research knowledge and practical solutions with their own professional expertise and client preferences across the life course to establish the means of providing cost-effective high-quality services to this specialist area.
  • Acquire advanced levels of clinical reasoning and clinical thinking skills in this field of study.
  • Develop advanced level assessment and identification of service need in their area of clinical practice.

Autumn Semester 

Spring Semester 

Core Modules

  • Sustainable Wheelchair Provision (9 ECTS)  

Elective Modules

  • PY5022: Independent Learning Module

Core Modules

  • NEW: Providing Posture Seating and Wheelchair mobility across the life course (12 ECTS) 

Elective Modules

  • PY5022: Independent Learning Module

Students must take three modules:
1. Sustainable Wheelchair Provision (9 ECTS) 
2. NEW: Providing Posture Seating and Wheelchair mobility across the life course (12 ECTS) 
3. One elective module to make a total of 30 ECTS.
4. Programme Structure
Part-time: 3 modules to be completed within one academic year

Entry Requirements

The postgraduate certificate programme is open to Health and Social Care Practitioners/ Clinical Engineers with a professionally and academically accredited BSc Hons 2.2 minimum level 8 (or equivalent) in a health and social care profession, or in engineering; with relevant experience and interest in the area.

RPL considered where applicant has relevant experience, history of continual professional development. Please provide a detailed CV and personal statement.

What to Include with your Application

  • Qualification transcripts and certificates
  • A copy of your birth certificate (long document)
  • Current CV
  • Personal Statement
  • Letter to support your application
  • Module preference form
  • If your qualifications have been obtained in a country where English is an official language this will suffice

  • If this is not available, the following additional documents must be provided:
    • English translation of your qualification(s)/transcripts
    AND
    • English language competency certificate

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  • Springboard+ applicants who receive an offer, will also be required to evidence eligibility for Springboard+ funding by providing supporting documentation in the weeks prior to course commencement. Successful applicants will be notified of this requirement in due course. Full Springboard+ eligibility information can be found here https://springboardcourses.ie/eligibility

 

Full Time:

EU - €6,002

Non- EU - €7,002

Part Time:

EU - €4,900

Non- EU - €9,000

Springboard - Candidates who satisfy the eligibility criteria under Springboard+ can qualify for 90% or 100% funding subject to the availability of places. To clarify eligibility please go to https://springboardcourses.ie/eligibility

Further information on fees and payment of fees is available from the Student Fees Office website. All fee related queries should be directed to the Student Fees Office (Phone: +353 61 213 007 or email student.fees.office@ul.ie.)

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