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Full time
1 year
SEP-25
Postgraduate Certificate
People With Mental Health Problems: Social Work Self Development
Taught
What makes the Postgraduate Certificate and the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner in Specialist Adult Mental Health at Worcester special?
These Programmes are designed to equip students with the clinical competence to work in specified NHS mental health positions. The programmes will prepare Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs) to work alongside multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. MHWPs will also be enabled to deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.
Through the completion of a programme, MHWPs will be empowered to work collaboratively with carers and families as appropriate to enable connectedness and informal support. The programme will further enable MHWPs to share decision-making and deliver interventions that are underpinned by generic therapeutic competencies within the NICE-recommended interventions for severe mental health problems. These programmes has been co-produced with NHS mental health services and service users across the Midlands and follows a nationally agreed curriculum and assessment strategy set out by Health Education England.
Careers
Students on this course are employed within the NHS at Agenda for Change Band 4 for the duration of the programme, and upon completion are guaranteed a position at Agenda for Change to Band 5 as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner within their employing organisation service.
All graduates of the programme are guaranteed paid employment within the NHS as a Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner, in the service in which they were on placement. Graduates of the programme can develop in these roles further, such as becoming a supervisor, lecturer and team leader. Graduates may also pursue further training in relevant professions such as Clinical Psychology or as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.
This course provides a clear employment route and subsequent progression opportunities into an NHS career. It achieves this through the close relationship it holds with NHS colleagues and modern practice trends through the on-going provision of the work-based learning placement and associated activities.
This is a funded course and applications are limited to people who are offered a position of employment as a Trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner in an associated NHS Trust. This is a full-time, salaried position during which students undertake this course.
To be confirmed
A typical applicant will be able to demonstrate: For PgCert Entry: Achievement of a degree at 2:2 or above in a relevant discipline. Sufficient numeracy and literacy to meet the requirements of the course, for example Maths and English at Grade 4 and above. University of Worcester GCSE Maths and English equivalency tests will be accepted. See Admissions Policy for other acceptable qualifications.
Located in a historic cathedral city in the West Midlands and only 45 minutes from Birmingham, the University of Worcester is home to 10,000 students and 1,000 staff. It offers a broad choice of postgraduate degree courses alongside state-of-the-art research and study facilities. The university is spread across four sites. St John’s, City and Severn campuses are all located within Worcester and are a short walk from each other, meaning...more
Full time | 3 years | JAN
Part time | 2 years | SEP-25