Want to register your interest in a future NHS PgCert-HC cohort? Please follow the guidance below and click through to CHCR’s Moodle-based e-Learning platform. This hosts all CHCR courses in communications for health and social care.
- Currently running (2020) are NHS PgCert-HC Cohorts 8 & 9
- Details regarding future courses are pending
- For illustrative schedules and teaching dates, click on the relevant course below.
- For queries about: (i) course availability or (ii) the process of registration/application, please contact CHCR’s, Liz Clark.
- Click here for a Cohorts 06-09 (2019-20) flyer.
Who Should Apply?
The course is profiled for:
- Senior UK NHS professional communicators (defined as NHS grades 7-above)
- In permanent NHS employment.
- Typically a relevant degree (2:1 or better) and
- A minimum of five years’ experience in an NHS Trust’s (or similar body’s) communications function. (‘Relevant’ means e.g. a communications, marketing, psychology, social psychology or general business degree).
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The principles of equality, diversity and inclusion sit at the heart of everything we do. The NHS Communications Development Programme is committed to developing leaders that are representative of our workforce and the communities we serve.
‘We know that diversity and inclusion lead to improved health and greater staff and patient experiences of the NHS; and we welcome the challenge of enabling staff from all backgrounds to develop and excel in their roles’ (NHS Leadership Academy)
We encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communications professionals.
We encourage applications from communications professionals with disabilities.
001-005 NHS PGCERT-HC (2015-18)
- Status & teaching: Cohort 1 began in Summer 2015. The fifth cohort ran from February - November 2018
- Recruitment: UK NHS communications staff only
- Graduation: (Cohort 5) Missenden Abbey 25 January 2019.
006 NHS PGCERT-HC (2019)
- Applies:
- UK NHS permanent professional communications staff (7 and above) only.
- Schedule (2019):
- Teaching began 04-08 March and concluded 04-08 November 2019.
- Graduation:
- Delayed by COVID-19, anticipated December 20.
007 NHS PGCERT-HC (2019)
- Applies:
- UK NHS permanent professional communication staff (7 and above) only
- Schedule (2019):
- Commenced 29 April - 03 May and concluded 02-06 December.
- Graduation:
- Delayed by COVID-19, anticipated December 20.
008 NHS PgCert-HC (Jan-Nov 2020)
- Applies:
- UK NHS permanent professional communication staff (7 and above) only
- Status:
- Underway (August 2020) - part delayed by COVID-19. Target completion: February 2021.
- Graduation:
- TBC - (?) June 2021.
009 NHS PgCert-HC (Mar-Dec 2020)
- Applies:
- UK NHS permanent professional communication staff (7 and above) only
- Schedule (2020):
- Underway (August 2020). Part-delayed by COVID-19. Anticipated completion March 2021.
- Graduation:
- TBC - (?) June 2021.
