BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Degree Apprenticeship
- Entry year:
- 2027/28
- Start date:
- September
- Study mode:
- Full-time
- Course duration:
- 37 months
- Campus:
- City
Why choose LJMU?
On completion of the course, you will have achieved the qualification to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as an Adult Nurse, achieving a bachelor’s degree
37-month course undertaken whilst earning in employment
Delivered by a dedicated apprenticeship teaching team including Degree Apprentice Tutors
Rated GOOD by Ofsted with OUTSTANDING for attitudes and behaviours
Participate in simulated learning activities, in state-of-the-art clinical practice simulation suites, complete with cutting edge technology
Approved by the Nursing Midwifery Council
Deadline for applications: 30th June 2027
About this apprenticeship
The BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Apprenticeship supports the learner to achieve a degree whilst remaining in employment. It will provide an NMC approved, quality programme which will prepare you for the complex and demanding, but extremely rewarding arena of adult nursing.
The BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing Apprenticeship supports the learner to achieve a degree whilst remaining in employment. It will provide an NMC approved, quality programme which will prepare you for the complex and demanding, but extremely rewarding arena of adult nursing.
Adult nurses care for adults in a range of different settings. On the BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) degree apprenticeship, you will gain the skills, experience and confidence to be an effective healthcare professional whilst you are in employment.
The programme is delivered over 37 months and is full time.
You will be assessed using a variety of assessment methods that will prepare you for practice such as presentations, essays, professional conversations, exams and be assessed in clinical practice. This will enable you to achieve across a range of assessment styles. You will have access to a variety of digital resources to support your learning and wider experience.
On successful completion of the programme, you will obtain an Honours Degree and will be able to register with the NMC as an adult nurse.
This apprenticeship programme is aligned and mapped against the Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFATE) Registered Nurse Degree standard ST0781 (IFATE, 2018) and is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
To apply for this course, you must be employed for a minimum of 30 hours per week in a healthcare setting in England that support the apprenticeship. New employers must meet the university’s due diligence checks and applicants must meet the requirements for apprenticeship funding.
Employability and career development
Your preparation for working as a Registered Nurse whilst on this programme, allows you to develop your career progression whilst undertaking full time work within a healthcare environment. Increasing integration of health and social care services will require nurses to negotiate boundaries and play a proactive role in interdisciplinary teams.
Career opportunities within Health and Social Care are varied and can lead to jobs in the NHS and the private, independent and voluntary sector. As registrants progress through their career there may be opportunities in the growing number of nurse specialist posts in some clinical areas too. You may choose to stay with your current employer and progress through your organisation. Some graduates prefer to pursue careers in teaching, research or management, or continue their studies with a Master’s programme.
Modules
What you will study on this apprenticeship
All modules are core modules (all students undertake them).
Further guidance on modules
Modules are designated core or optional in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU’s Academic Framework Regulations. Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules provide you with an element of choice. Their availability may vary and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.
Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.
Core modules
Professional Practice in Nursing
20 credits
20 credits
This module will enable you to understand, consider and demonstrate the professional principles that underpin your practice, specifically the NMC Code, your personal and others’ expectations as an ambassador for the role. The module will consider the legal and ethical frameworks underpinning practice, as well as how to care for yourself and others.
Professional Values in Nursing
20 credits
20 credits
This module will develop your understanding of the values and behaviours that are expected in nursing and to explore how the evidence base is used to underpin nursing practice, considering the provision of care in a non discriminatory manner.
Person Centred Nursing Care
20 credits
20 credits
This module will facilitate you to understand key anatomy and physiology across the lifespan. The module will explore the impact of medicines, develop your understanding of pharmacology, and how these link to your ability to deliver effective person centred care.
Partnership Working and Shared Decision Making
20 credits
20 credits
This module will introduce students to the principles of partnership working and shared decision making with service users, carers and families, considering communication, capacity and reasonable adjustments.
Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health
20 credits
20 credits
This module aims to develop the underpinning knowledge to support the role of the nurse in health promotion, health protection and the prevention of ill health, considering health inequalities, social determinants and infection control.
Introduction to Practice Learning
20 credits
20 credits
This module will introduce and develop the principles professional practice and introduce the scope of competencies for the role of the nurse, guided by the NMC Standards of Proficiency for the Registered Nurse. This module will run alongside your practice placements and will introduce the skills required for nursing practice, enabling you to engage with care of individuals across different health and care settings.
Core modules
Health promotion and health policy
20 credits
20 credits
This module will enable you to explore the factors that influence the health and wellbeing of individuals, and the health choices and policies that impact on health., taking into account the role of the nurse in facilitating access to care.
Interprofessional Collaboration in Nursing
20 credits
20 credits
This module will develop an understanding of the nurses’ role in interprofessional collaboration across a range of health care settings. In addition there will be an exploration of individual roles and responsibilities when dealing with major incidents.
Nursing Practice within Legal and Ethical Frameworks
20 credits
20 credits
This module will develop explore the concept of risk, and the legal and ethical considerations and frameworks that underpin safe practice, including risk assessments, safe staffing, consent and information sharing.
Assessment in Adult Nursing
20 credits
20 credits
This module will develop your understanding of assessing, monitoring and planning care in adult nursing. You will also explore research methods and ethics and the application of an evidence-base to your practice. In this module the indicative content will specifically be applied within the context of Adult Nursing.
Complexities in Adult Nursing Care
20 credits
20 credits
This module will develop your critical understanding of the complexities of care in adult nursing, including end of life, commonly encountered challenges, and prioritising care.
Developing Practice Learning
20 credits
20 credits
The aim of this module is to support apprentice learners in achieving proficiencies for registered nurses that are aligned to Part 2 of the Practice Assessment Document. In addition, apprentice learners will be directed and supported to develop an understanding of the theory that underpins the NMC Standards of Proficiency Annexe B Nursing Procedures.
Core modules
Consolidating Practice Learning
20 credits
20 credits
The aim of this module is to support students in achieving NMC proficiencies for registered nurses and all other requirements of the PAD for level 6. In addition, students will be directed and supported to develop an understanding of the theory that underpins the NMC Standards of Proficiency Annexe B Nursing Procedures.
Leadership and Quality Enhancement
20 credits
20 credits
This module will equip the learner with the underpinning knowledge required for leading and managing care, including delegation and supporting staff. They will also develop skills to monitor risk and evaluate and enhance quality of care.
Health Economics and Health Policy
20 credits
20 credits
This module will enhance the students understanding of health legislation and current health and social care policies and their influence quality of care, patient safety. They will also develop an understand of the principles of health economics and their relevance to resource allocation in health and social care organisations .
Nursing Interventions and Prescriber Readiness
20 credits
20 credits
This module explores the nurse's role in the instigation of appropriate investigations and interventions when meeting individual care needs. This module will prepare you to progress to a prescribing qualification following registration.
Managing Risk in Adult Nursing
20 credits
20 credits
This module will enable you to understand the concept of risk and to identify and appropriately respond to risk within individuals and organisations in adult nursing. In this module the indicative content will specifically be applied within the context of Adult Nursing.
Person Centred Care Planning in Adult Nursing
20 credits
20 credits
This module will explore decision making within the context of individualised care in adult nursing. In this module the indicative content will specifically be applied within the context of Adult Nursing.
Professional accreditation
This programme is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and aligned to the Standards for pre-registration nursing programmes (NMC, 2023).
Your learning experience
How the apprenticeship is taught
The programme utilises a variety of teaching and learning approaches that are designed to inspire you and build your confidence as an apprentice nurse. These include lectures, seminars, group work activities, simulation and tutorials.
The range of learning and teaching approaches used the programme aim to develop and foster your independence as you acquire the knowledge and skills to practice. You will:
- Develop your knowledge through supported on-the-job learning
- All learning activity will contribute towards the development of the Knowledge Skills and Behaviours (KSB’s)
- Consolidate learning in the practice, whilst being supported and assessed by practice supervisors and assessors and academic assessors as per the requirements of the NMC Standards for Supervision and Assessment (2023)
You will commence your course with a timetabled induction period; this will support you to be part of a community of learners. The importance of group support and the availability of a range of university-wide support services for all apprentice learners will ensure that you are aware of the diverse range of support available.
You will have access to the programme team, Personal Tutors, Practice Supervisors, Practice Assessors, Academic Assessors, Cohort Leads and Lecturers in Practice Learning for guidance throughout the course of your programme. Working together, in their distinct roles this team provide support with open channels of communication, to enable you to realise your goals.
How you will be assessed
Whilst on this course your knowledge and skills with be assessed each year through written work, exams, presentations in addition to assessment in practice. The assessment of your theoretical modules will occur at the end of each module.
Your assessment in practice will include feedback and review of your skills by experienced nurses.
The assessments for each module have been designed to align with the learning outcomes and be authentic to nursing practice. This means that assessments will require you to use the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that you will need to apply in your professional life.
Where you will study
Part of the City Campus, the School of Nursing, Public and Allied Health is based in the Tithebarn Building, adjoining the City Campus Library, which is open seven days a week. In addition to specialist clinical practice suite facilities, you will find high quality seminar rooms, IT suites and lecture theatres, plus a café and social spaces.
Course tutors
Sharon has been in post at LJMU since October 2020 and a registered nurse from 05.2005. Sharon has worked in a variety settings including Stroke rehabilitation, Coronary Care Unit, Acute Medical Unit and General Practice. Roles have included junior/ senior nurse, deputy ward manager, nurse manager. Sharon came to LJMU to complete her masters in advanced healthcare practice and then worked as an ANP before joining LJMU as a lecturer.
Sharon become programme leader following involvement with the trainee nursing associate programme at LJMU, her interests include widening participation and support for learners. She enjoys teaching and running the apprentice workshop days as well as actively engaging with the employers to support learners.
Funding this apprenticeship
Apprenticeships are funded courses, with learning costs paid to the university by the employer. This is done either through the Apprenticeship levy (for large companies) or with the help of the government’s co-investment model (for smaller companies).
If you aren’t already employed by a company that is willing to sponsor you through an apprenticeship, you’ll need to find one. You can do this by regularly checking the Government’s Find an apprenticeship website.
You can also approach an employer yourself to find out whether they would be interested in offering Apprenticeships and ask them to contact us. Our team will be able to explain how they can access the correct funding and the next steps.
Information for potential employers
If an employer has a wage bill of over £3 million, it would automatically pay the Government levy and would use this to fund learning via the company Apprenticeship Service Account.
Non-Levy companies can access funding via the Government co-investment model, whereby the Government will fund 95% of the learning costs and the company will fund the remaining 5%.
To access the Government funds, non-levy paying employers are required to set up an account on the Apprenticeship Service and reserve funding for apprentices, no earlier than three months before the course start date. Find out more information regarding setting up an apprenticeship service account. LJMU will still invoice non-levy paying companies for their contribution, but without this account LJMU will be unable to draw down the Government co-investment funding for the apprentices.
Next steps and onboarding
To begin the apprentice onboarding process, the employer must first be an LJMU-approved employer. To check whether your company is already a LJMU-approved employer please check the company drop down on the online application form.
If your company is not listed, please complete/ask your employer to complete the following application form to get started. Degree Apprenticeship Employer Form
Candidate submits application form: LJMU Learner online application form.
Employer to Reserve Funding via the Apprenticeship Service /or if a levy paying organisation, register your learner via the Apprenticeship Service
Employer and Candidate complete onboarding. Further information on the onboarding process can be found on our guide for onboarding apprentices page.
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Qualification requirements
GCSEs and equivalents
A minimum of two GCSE's which must include Maths and English at grade C (level 4-9) or above OR level 2 Equivalency in Numeracy and Literacy.
Other international requirements
Evidence of proof of equivalency from UK ENIC can be used where an individual has an international qualification. To access the apprenticeship, the individual must have a valid and eligible status. Non-UK nationals are eligible for funding if they have been resident in the UK for at least the previous three year period on the first day of the apprenticeship.
Additional requirements
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Interview required
An interview will be conducted involving the prospective learner and the employer prior to offering a place on the programme.
Further information
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DBS Requirements
An Enhanced DBS clearance is required to be evidenced as part of the admission process.
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RPL
Recognition of prior learning that is capable of being mapped to the Standards of proficiency for registered nurses and programme outcomes, up to a maximum of 50 percent of the programme, is permitted (NMC Standards for pre-registration nursing programmes, 2023: 1.5).
Please Note: All international qualifications are subject to a qualification equivalency check.
How to apply
Securing your place at LJMU
To apply for this programme, you are required to complete an LJMU Degree Apprenticeship form. You will need to provide details of previous qualifications and a personal statement outlining why you wish to study this programme.
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