Course summary
This Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme provides you with the knowledge, skills and capabilities required to be an effective leader. The Senior Leader Apprenticeship in Business Administration (SLA BA) is a part-time 2-year programme that will help you respond to complex organisational issues at a senior management level. The programme supports you in examining strategic responses to organisational issues to create value & pragmatic solutions within your organisation. It develops you to become a confident, competent, forward-thinking senior leader who can identify & critically analyse data, prospects, and balance strategic thinking with excellent operational focus. The central underpinning themes of the programme are transformation; both individual and organisational. It is intellectually challenging, insightful, and focused on improving practice in the workplace across all areas of management, leadership, and functions of a business. In consultation with employees, the curriculum has been developed to cover a broad range of business disciplines, including strategy, leadership, systems, innovation & finance that prepares and enables you to take a strategic perspective in senior leadership. Who is it for? This programme is suitable for middle and senior managers, from any sector looking to better support their organisation’s strategic direction. We are dedicated to supporting mature, professional students and preparing you for work in the challenging and rewarding arena of senior leadership. Benefits
- Part-Time, Block Taught delivery to support your development alongside your current role.
- Develop and a strategic decisions within your organisational area.
- Confidence in horizon scanning and developing insight and foresight in organisational planning.
- Benefit from teaching informed by business research & local business needs.
- Expand your professional network and learn alongside local senior leaders and managers.
- Highly qualified & experienced teaching team.
- Specialised Masterclasses from business leaders.
- Transform your professional practice and enhance career progression prospects.
- All students and alumni benefit from membership of Liverpool Leadership Network.
- Senior Leader Apprenticeship Award.
- Chartered Manager Status (Chartered Management Institute).
- Top- up your award to the full MBA degree (Additional Fee £2650- Fee subject to change.)
- Your leadership development
- Strategies for engaging and motivating others
- Complex operational strategies
- Organisational change, innovation, systems & people
- Sustainable business practices & ethical business
Assessment method
To cater for the wide-ranging content of our courses and the varied learning preferences of our students, we offer a range of assessment methods on each programme. Assessment methods on this programme include: -the creation of a portfolio of evidence demonstrating apprenticeship standards throughout -coursework -undertake an End Point Assessment at the end of their 2nd year to gain the SLA award Where specific software packages are used, there is an expectation that these will form part of the assessment submission, whilst other skills will be embedded in specific modules. The core management competences of allocating priorities and time management are supported by clear submission deadlines, with protocols for extenuating circumstances.
Entry requirements
Alternative qualifications considered If you do not meet the admissions criteria above, the course team has a strong commitment to widening participation and positively welcomes non-standard applicants. Candidates with some management experience or those who are about to enter a managerial role and have a demonstrated aptitude for study may still be considered dependant on circumstances and this can be discussed with the Programme Leader prior to application. Undergraduate degree A bachelor’s degree with a 2.2 (hons) is required and at least three years’ relevant strategic management or leadership experience. Alternatively, a minimum of five years’ relevant strategic management or leadership experience would be considered if no prior degree is held. GCSEs and equivalents Apprentices must hold GCSE Mathematics and English Language (grade A*-C / 9-4) or equivalent and this must be evidenced prior to the start of the programme. Relevant work experience Must be fully employed and spend at least 50% of their working hours in England over the duration of their, they must be fully employed by a UK based company and their contract must not expire prior to the end of the training programme. For the Senior Leader Apprenticeship, applicants must be employed in a job role in which they contribute to strategic leadership and management relating to their area of responsibility within the organisation. RPL Credits may be awarded for learning already undertaken in the University or elsewhere for which you have received qualifications or certificates and you may submit a claim for recognition of unaccredited prior learning (RP(E)L). This may be for work you have accomplished in a professional, paid, or voluntary capacity. This must be submitted via an RPL form with supporting evidence. You will also be liable to pay an administration fee and charge per credit. All RP(E)L claims must be applied for at the point of admission and cannot be considered at a later stage.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £6505 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £6505 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £6505 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £6505 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Liverpool John Moores University
Student Life Building
Copperas Hill
Liverpool
L3 5AJ