PMMWBL: Work Based Learning

Module code: PMMWBL

Module provider: Pharmacy; School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy

Credits: 20

Level: 7

When you’ll be taught: Triple Presentation: S1, S2, & Summer

Module convenor: Professor Jane Portlock , email: j.portlock2@reading.ac.uk

Module co-convenor: Professor Jane Portlock, email: j.portlock2@reading.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s): This module is only available to students who are healthcare professionals working at an approved practice site (Open)

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: NA

Academic year: 2025/6

Available to visiting students: No

Talis reading list: No

Last updated: 3 April 2025

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This module aims to support practitioners to critically reflect on their experiences and learning in their workplace.ÌýEach practitioner will be assigned an academic tutor who will agree the focus and approach to assessment, in order to meet individual learning needs.

This module aims to support practitioners to document their learning during their day-to-day work.ÌýWork-based learning (WBL) has been promoted as particularly useful for professionals in full time employment because they are enabled to address issues arising during practice by investigating pertinent literature, devising potential learning solutions and implementing and evaluating them in practice.ÌýThis module is aimed at working healthcare professionals who can underpin their workplace-based learning with a professional portfolio of evidence.ÌýThe portfolio will support practitioners to reflect on their experiences and, as such, can be mapped to a competency framework of their choice.

The module can be studied stand-alone or as part of the MSc in Advancing Healthcare Practice.ÌýA significant proportion of the module is workplace-based learning and practitioners are required to be working at an approved workplace which allows them the opportunities to document their progress. Note that work that has been submitted as part of another formal credit-bearing qualification may not be used towards this module, except in accordance with the University’s Policy and Procedure for the Recognition of Prior Learning.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Evidence the application of relevant professional frameworks
2. Critically analyse the literature within the agreed field of practice
3. Critically reflect on knowledge, skills and behaviours in relation to practice
4. Evidence professional learning activities against an agreed learning contract with defined outcomes.

Module content

Each practitioner will be assigned an academic tutor who will agree the field of practice and approach to assessment to meet individual learning needs.ÌýPractitioners will be encouraged to identify appropriate training to meet their own professional needs, identified in their learning contract.ÌýStudents will have tutorials at set intervals with their academic tutor to determine the focus, agree the learning contract and monitor progress prior to submission.

Examples of appropriate training that could be included:

• Non-credit bearing CPD courses
• CPD study days and/or conferences
• Work based training
• Workplace-based assessments
• Structured reading applied to the field of practice

Key documents which may be used as the basis for assessment are:

• The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF)
• Relevant Professional Competency Frameworks
• Workplace-based assessments
• Written assignments

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

This module is largely self-directed by the practitioner to meet the learning objectives.Ìý Practitioners will have tutorials at set intervals with their academic tutor to determine the focus, agree the learn