PGDip Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Children and Young People at Edge Hill University

Programme overview

With a balance of academic and work-based learning, this PGDip Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Children and Young People course has been designed to provide opportunities for you to complete four academic modules, whilst maintaining a clinical role in practice. This approach to study will allow you to identify key issues in practice by applying the theoretical skills learned from the course into practice. You will be equipped with therapeutic knowledge and practice-based skills in both clinical and case management supervision.

What you will study

Year 1 of this senior wellbeing practitioner course focuses on developing your clinical supervision skills. You will also start to reflect on intervention strategies when working with children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties, and the role which mental health services play in this. Modules include Supervision I, Supervision II, Enhanced Practice in Early Intervention, Adapting Low Intensity Practice with Neurodiversity including Autism.

Career pathways

Aligned to the NHS agenda for change, successful completion of this PGDip Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Children and Young People course will enhance your career opportunities. You will be equipped to offer both clinical and case management supervision, specialising in learning disability and autistic spectrum specific delivery, including providing advanced low intensity interventions.

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Application information

Entry requirements

You should have a minimum 2:2 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. You will also be expected to have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a CYP mental health setting post qualification. You must be in suitable employment to be registered on the programme. You must be employed by your sponsoring organisation and as such, all responsibilities for employment are held by the employer. You should have completed either Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children’s and Young Peoples’ Wellbeing Practitioners (CYPs) training and currently be employed in one of these roles. You are required to be an experienced practitioner, as evidenced by 2 or more years working therapeutically, clinically, or consultatively within an educational or community mental health setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties. Applicants with less than two years’ post qualifying experience may be considered depending on previous experience.

Intake: January 2027

Duration: 2 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/

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