Glenys Bridges and Partners Practice Pathways
Our courses were designed with you in mind
Good Oral wellbeing makes a significant contribution to general health and happiness in later life
Glenys Bridges and Partners Practice Pathways (GBPP) have introduced a new strand to the business.
We are building a range of dental health promotion courses written especially for carers of the elderly in residential homes.
Courses costing as little as £5 can be found in our Professional Courses domain,
See A carers guide to oral wellbeing in residential care settings
and in the Academic Courses domain see our more extensive tutor lead, project based course:
Introduction to practical oral health promotion in care home settings.
Click on the links for more details.
Academic Courses
Our Academic programmes are accredited by the Open College Network (West Midlands) and offer a staged pathway with our level 4 and 5 qualifications and Advanced and Higher Level programmes so that learners can build on their previous academic success.
Professional Courses
Our short professional programmes offer eCPD meeting with GDC requirements. Our programmes are designed to create inclusive teams with dental-specific professional development for the entire team, irrespective of whether they are a GDC registrant.
The GBPP Professional site offers a growing range of eCPD for GDC registered practice managers as well as a rich range of quality CPD for their non-registered colleagues. In particular covering GDC category B criteria “Effective Management of self, and effective management of others or effective working with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients always providing constructive leadership where appropriate.”
We provide focused and relevant professional development for the non-clinical members of the dental team as well as their clinical colleagues. Our programmes focus on the Standards for the dental team, coving all of the skills and measures required to enable dental teams to provide caring and comfortable dental experiences for all of their patients.
The content of the GBPP Professional site will be automatically available to our students enrolled on to any course on the GBPP Academic site, and this benefit will last for the duration of their academic course.
Students not studying on one of our academic courses will be welcome to enrol onto the Professional site for their CPD and will be able to benefit from being able to access a wide range of resources and documents for practice managers Please see our Professional Course list and web pages
Glenys Bridges and Partners Academic Courses
As a company, specialising in the development of supervisory and senior management skills within dental teams, we encourage managers to develop the leadership skills within their team and so provide training for whole team professionalism. Our programmes equip members of the dental team for challenging and fulfilling work. We offer bespoke one to one tuition, training and support to enable teams to develop. Please see our Academic course list and web pages
All of our courses and qualifications were designed with you in mind, and we will continue to develop the qualifications you need to provide your patients with outstanding care and treatment.
About you
At a time of increasing opportunities for dental professionals, it makes sense to invest in training and development to extend your skills sets.
We recognise how demanding it can be to study for a professional qualification whilst balancing work and home responsibilities; so we have designed a range of flexible training programmes to enable students to maintain a work-life balance, whilst developing academic, professional and personal management skills.
This is how our courses work:
Teaching
All of our programmes are tutor led. Each student is guided by a personal tutor; distance learning students benefit from the ability to choose when and where they study with the support of a mentor/tutor. In addition, we have a growing number of training partners, some of whom offer our courses in workshop formats. Details are available on request.
Each programme teaches a range of recognised legal and ethical codes which dental professionals must observe. This enables students to embed GDC and Quality of Care regulations into their professional development.
Online aspects
Learning materials and a range of reference materials are provided online. Students work is uploaded directly onto our online Student Pathway where tutors access your work to provide feedback and guidance.
Our learning materials are set entirely within the dental practice workplace so that students can contextualise the learning for their own practice.
Courses consist of subject units each of which has Learning Activities to develop knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, Course Notes and Assignment Briefs to guide the content of assignments for assessment.
Course Fees
Course fees can be staged (and paid by instalment if requested). On booking, you will pay a booking deposit. The remainder of your course fee will be paid on the invoice; payments can be spread over nine instalments on request. An additional examination fee will be charged for qualification courses only.
Assessment fees for our quality endorsed programmes are included in the course fee. Our Programmes are Quality Endorsed by the Open College Network West Midlands – an Ofqual regulated awarding organisation.
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