An advanced Level 7 certificate for registered healthcare professionals, covering anatomy, consultation, facial injectable therapies and hyperhidrosis treatment, with internally assessed coursework...
This regulated OTHM qualification is designed for experienced healthcare professionals who need advanced knowledge, clinical skills and safe patient-centred practice in aesthetic injectable therapies.
Ofqual regulated OTHM qualification
RQF Level 7 certificate qualification
4 mandatory units worth 34 credits
Qualification number 603/4261/4
Internally assessed coursework with Pass grading
Guided Learning Hours 120 and Total Qualification Time 340
The OTHM Level 7 Certificate in Clinical Aesthetic Injectable Therapies is designed to enable learners and practitioners to provide the highest standards of patient and client care during all stages of delivering cosmetic and aesthetic injectable therapies.
Designed around safe, patient-centred cosmetic injectable practice
Focuses on consultation, treatment delivery, aftercare and complication management
Reflects CPSA and JCCP standards
Supports evidence-based decision-making and public health principles
Builds advanced knowledge for facial and selected non-facial injectable treatments
Provides a progression route toward the full OTHM Level 7 Diploma
This qualification develops advanced understanding and applied capability across assessment, consultation, treatment planning, injectable delivery, complication management and reflective professional practice.
Evaluate skin structure, facial anatomy, aging and dermatological factors affecting injectable treatments
Assess patients accurately and identify when treatment is or is not appropriate
Communicate effectively and obtain informed consent using patient-centred consultation skills
Select and justify appropriate injectable therapies and alternative treatment options
Deliver facial injectable and hyperhidrosis treatments safely and appropriately
Recognise, minimise and manage complications and adverse events in clinical practice
This course is intended for eligible registered healthcare professionals seeking advanced education and assessed competence in clinical aesthetic injectable therapies.
Doctors
Dentists
Nurse prescribers
Allied health professionals
Independent pharmacist prescribers
Registered healthcare professionals working under appropriate clinical oversight where prescribing rights are required
Entry is restricted to appropriately qualified and registered healthcare professionals who can study at degree level and meet OTHM’s professional and language requirements.
Learners must be aged 21 or above and hold a degree or equivalent, or provide evidence of ability to study at degree level
Learners must be registered healthcare professionals and provide evidence of registration with an appropriate professional body; learners without prescribing rights must evidence suitable clinical oversight, and non-native English speakers must provide English language competency evidence
All units are internally assessed and internally quality assured by the centre, then externally quality assured by OTHM.
Coursework that is internally assessed
Written assignments
Short answer tests
Observation and logbook evidence, including Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)
Successful learners can extend their studies and professional development through further OTHM study and wider progression opportunities recognised by OTHM.
Progress to the OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Clinical Aesthetic Injectable Therapies by completing the remaining mandatory units within 5 years
Strengthen progression in regulated cosmetic and aesthetic injectable practice
Support continuing professional development in advanced aesthetic medicine
Be considered for progression opportunities with UK universities in line with OTHM progression arrangements and university entry requirements
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