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Work based learning - HEA00186M

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2026-27
    • See module specification for other years: 2025-26

Module summary

This module offers an opportunity to acquire academic credit for learning associated with your workplace andspecific educational activities that you have completed and are able to reflect on in a portfolio of activities demonstrating your own personal and professional development.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 1 2026-27

Module aims

The aim of this module is for you to demonstrate your personal and professional development by drawing on your experiences in your workplace which may include activities such as study days, self-directed study, and short courses. Working with an academic coach you will build a critically reflective portfolio that will evidence your achievement.

Module learning outcomes

  1. Critically reflect on your work-based activities, identifying how they have contributed to your personal and professional development

  2. Demonstrate the application of an extensive knowledge of the current health and social care evidence relevant to your selected topic or field of practice

  3. Critically analyse influences on professional practice or ideology which may includeresearch, legislation and governance.

Module content

You will work with a coach to support you in developing an action plan that you will use to achieve the activities that will form the basis of your portfolio. Your portfolio should include a critically reflective essay which draws on the evidence that you have included in your portfolio to evidence your learning and how the activities you have undertaken have supported your personal and professional development.

Your initial meeting with your coach will be to identify the evidence that you may already have and look at what you aim to achieve during the module. You will then create a formative action plan which will form the basis of your portfolio and critical essay.

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

None

Module feedback

Students will have individualised feedback in accordance with department guidelines.

Indicative reading

Helyer, R. (2010) The Work-based learning student handbook Palgrave McMillian

Wareing, M. (2016) Becoming a learner in the workplace: A students guide to practice-based and work-based learning in health and social care London: Quay books


The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University constantly explores ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary. In some instances it may be appropriate for the University to notify and consult with affected students about module changes in accordance with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.