PgDip Specialist Practice (Health and Justice Nursing) at Teesside University

Programme overview

This PgDip prepares registered nurses for specialist practice in health and justice nursing and carries an NMC annotation on the register. It is approved against the NMC (2022) community nursing specialist practice standards and mapped to the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing health and justice standards.

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time | Intake: September | Study mode: full-time, part-time | Location: Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Learning is structured around clinical practice, leadership and management, facilitation of learning, and evidence, research and development. Core modules are Advancing Health and Justice Nursing 1 and 2, Advancing Non-medical Prescribing and Advancing Physical Assessment Skills for the Specialist Practitioner, with about half the teaching online and half face to face.

Career pathways

Graduates are prepared to apply for team leader positions in health and justice nursing settings.

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Entry requirements

Applicants must hold NMC-valid registration as a first-level registered nurse with at least one year's post-registration experience in their intended field (three years post-qualifying for the Non-medical Prescribing module, which starts in January of year 1 full-time or year 2 part-time), hold a degree or RPL equivalent (a diploma holder may use RPL), be successful at interview, work in a role with an identified need to prescribe, be approved by the employer's non-medical prescribing lead and service manager, have an NMP practice assessor or designated prescribing practitioner, and pass a 20-question drug calculations entry test at 80% or above. An employing organisation must provide learning opportunities, practice assessor supervision, a work-based risk assessment and a satisfactory DBS. Self-funding applicants may be offered an honorary contract with a local employer.

Domestic applicants: GBP 5,130 a year (2026/27). Full-time Source

International applicants: GBP 16,150 a year (2026/27). Full-time Source

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time

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