This year, Procare Community Services (PCS) have 3 places for secondment on the District Nurse Specialist Practice Qualification (SPQ) course across Guildford and Waverley in Surrey. During the course, students are paid Band 6 AfC, and subject to interview and successful completion of the SPQ, our District Nurses are band 7. The course starts with Surrey University in September 2025 and includes a combination of 50% academic theory and 50% clinical practice placement and will require self-directed study. The course timetable Over the 52 weeks students will have support from a practice assessor from PCS and a University personal tutor. Holiday is allocated within the University timetable. Modules include Introduction to Public Health, Advancing Practice in Long term conditions, Essentials of Specialist Practice and Health assessment, Patient safety, quality and risk, V300 independent prescribing, Research and Leadership. The V300 independent prescribing module is an optional module, if this flow is not undertaken, there will be an optional module to choose alongside Advanced Medicines Management. More details on the course can be found through the University of Surrey website; Primary and Community Care SPQ District Nursing PGDip | University of Surrey.