该计划旨在扩展和加深个人的专业实践，并在健康和社会实践领域中应用先进的知识体系，包括但不限于：物理治疗，职业治疗，护理，助产，社会工作，咨询和公共服务。它将提供学习机会，旨在为您的实践提供信息并在基于条约的实践中发展有价值的知识。在进行互动式和基于经验的教育时，您将专业地学习和成长。该研究生文凭课程将扩展您现有的资格，并允许跨专业的更高水平的专业发展。获得开发，分析和生成针对复杂的，有时是不可预测的问题的解决方案的技能。该资格与来自广泛实践环境的从业者相关，因此卫生和社会服务从业者之间的专业间互动将增强并
This programme is designed to extend and deepen an individual's professional practice and apply an advanced body of knowledge in a range of fields of health and social practice which include, but is not limited to physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, midwifery, social work, counselling and human services. It will offer learning opportunities designed to inform your practice and develop valued knowledge in Treaty-based practice. You will learn and grow professionally while undertaking interactive and experiential-based education. This postgraduate diploma will extend students' existing qualifications and will allow higher-level professional development that is interprofessional. Students will gain the skills to develop, analyse and generate solutions to complex and sometimes unpredictable problems. This qualification is relevant to practitioners from a wide range of practice contexts, and the resulting interprofessional interaction of health and social services practitioners will enhance and strengthen service delivery in the region. An interprofessional context will enable graduates to extend their capacity for critical and professional/clinical reasoning for specialist practice, leadership, and management in complex professional environments.<br><br>The aim of this programme is to provide you with greater capacity to work in specialised practitioner, practice leader, manager, educator, or researcher roles either in a student's current field or within specialised fields of practice which include: working with children and youth, the elderly, people with disabilities, refugees and migrants and in the area of mental health. Graduates can become skilled in a new field, or further advance their current specialisation. The Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Practice will position graduates well to move into Masters level qualifications at other New Zealand universities.