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PGCert Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health

PGCert Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health

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Part time | Edge Hill University | 1 year | SEP-24

Study mode

Part time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Certificate

Subject areas

People With Mental Health Problems: Social Work Self Development

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Join us to study severe mental health problems and examine ways to build relationships with service users and their families and carers to identify needs and collaborate over care decisions.

You’ll prepare for a rewarding career in a new role that forms part of the transformation of mental health services. We’ll teach you all the skills you need as a mental health and wellbeing practitioner (MHWP) to support adults of all ages.

Learn alongside other adult service practitioners and therapists over 12 months. You’ll be part of a local mental health service, playing a core part of an existing team in the community.

During our PGCert Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health course, you’ll discover how to engage and assess adults with severe mental health problems so you can develop effective care plans. Then you’ll collaborate with service users and their carers and families to deliver low-intensity, psychologically-informed interventions and make sure they have appropriate support.

Our combination of online study, in-person clinical skills training and practice-based learning align with the work-based component of Health Education England’s mental health and wellbeing training programme.

Modules

Wellbeing-Focused Psychologically Informed Interventions for Severe Mental Health Problemsenables you to deliver wellbeing-focused and psychologically informed interventions that support connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment (CHIME). You will learn how to set collaborative goals with people with severe mental health problems and deliver seven interventions according to an intervention manual. The interventions will be applied with appropriate flexibility and within the context of a positive collaborative working relationship. The module will also embed the routine use of patient-reported outcome measures to support the collaborative evaluation of progress.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£8,000

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

You should have a degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honours (2:2 or above), as well as at least five GCSEs at Grade C or Grade 4 or above (or equivalent), including GCSE English Language. You will also need to demonstrate the intrapersonal skills and values consistent with providing hopeful, person-centred care and show a commitment to working with people with complex mental health needs. An interview forms part of the selection process.

University information

Edge Hill University has been inspiring minds since 1885 and continues to live up to its ethos of ‘creating opportunity from knowledge’. The university’s commitment to excellence shines through to its cutting-edge research, scholarship opportunities, contemporary facilities and most importantly, its passionate and dedicated teaching staff. Students are empowered to craft their own future, learning in ways that work for them, from expert...more