该计划旨在扩展和加深健康和社会实践领域的专业知识和技能，包括：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。该研究生证书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。它与来自广泛实践环境的从业者有关，由此产生的健康和社会服务从业者的专业间互动将增强并加强该地区的服务提供。跨专业背景将使毕业生能够扩展其在复杂的专业环境中进行专业实践，领导，管理和监督的关键和专业/临床推
This programme is designed to extend and deepen professional knowledge and skills in the fields of health and social practice which include: occupational therapy, nursing, midwifery, social work, counselling and human services. It will offer learning opportunities designed to inform students' practice and develop valued knowledge in Treaty based practice. Students will learn and grow professionally while undertaking interactive and experiential-based education. This programme will extend students' existing qualifications and allow higher level professional development that is inter-professional. It 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, management and supervision in complex professional environments. Candidates may take up to two years to complete the Postgraduate Certificate.<br><br>The Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Practice recognises, promotes and supports the need for accessible higher education. It provides a pathway for professional development that offers flexible delivery modes and is accessible to students throughout the region. Technology will be used to provide students with alternative modes of study. Graduates will have developed a range of flexible skills and expertise which will position them well to be responsive to changing social service and health communities. They will have gained advanced knowledge and skills for practice and career progression within their field of practice and for leadership and management roles within the health and social service sectors. Learning and participating within an interprofessional teaching/learning context will enable graduates to transfer their experience to workplace relationships and networks. Depending on the selection of modules, graduates of the Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Practice may be eligible to apply for the Wintec 180-point Master of Professional Practice or for Master's qualifications at other New Zealand universities and ITPs.