Create your own path at Manchester Met
Flexibility, support and expertise to help you progress your career.
Flexibility, support and expertise to help you progress your career.
From the highly skilled clinicians who treat our ageing population, to the country’s brightest sporting stars, we’re making a significant impact upskilling the health and social care workforce across Greater Manchester and beyond.
We are committed to making a positive contribution to communities, individuals and organisations with a focus on sustainable models of care, improved patient outcomes, personalised interventions and working collaboratively with our partners to futureproof health and social care services.
When you study CPD at Manchester Met, you will be taught by a team of award-winning academics with vast amounts of experience in practice. Our researchers are working with the British Para-Swimming squad to develop food safety skills and supporting children who have communication disabilities to have improved access to education, employment and a better quality of life.
We’re also using facial morphing techniques to help young people quit smoking for good and developing targeted physiotherapy treatments for common debilitating ailments like Osteoarthritis, that have been implemented across several NHS services.
Our research is helping to save lives and improve services for patients across Greater Manchester. As a student at Manchester Met, you could be part of that story.
Everyone has their own way of learning – and commitments outside of studying.
To help you fit your course around work and family life, we offer a range of study options, including full-time, part-time and distance learning routes.
Our Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care is home to industry-standard simulation suites, clinical skills rooms, physiotherapy suites, movement laboratories and more.
They’re designed to mirror the environments you’re working in so that you can learn in spaces which replicate real-life settings.
If you’re returning to studying, it can feel daunting to write assignments, analyse research and learn practical skills.
To support you during your course, you’ll have a dedicated mentor. You’ll be able to set up one-to-one meetings with your mentor for any advice you might need, from how to structure your essays, to how to demonstrate reflective practice.
Many of our teaching team are involved with research projects (both as part of their work at Manchester Met and in their spare time) and also maintain practical or clinical work alongside their teaching hours.
Our specialist areas include acute and critical care, allied health professions, children and families, and community and social care.
To support you during your course, you’ll have a dedicated mentor. You’ll be able to set up one-to-one meetings with your mentor for any advice you might need, from how to structure your essays, to how to demonstrate reflective practice.
Studying CPD at Manchester Met has allowed me to really progress my career, it gave me experience in the community with the practice placement, and also allowed me to get that broader understanding of public health through the teaching and lectures.