PGCert CYP-PT Leadership PGCert at King's College London

This programme is for leaders and managers of CYP-MH Services in health, social care and the third sector who are managing and leading enhanced services or new services employing more junior staff in training posts on programmes provided by CYP Psychological Trainings. This programme covers aspects of professional leadership in the NHS and commissioned third sector, specifically in CAMHS, and specifically in relation to developing new services employing Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners working in Mental Health Support Teams in educational settings. HEE has worked with HEI training providers including at King’s to develop syllabus guidance and the programme follows these.

Faculty: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience  |  Duration: One year  |  Study mode: part-time  |  Intake: January 2027  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The main aims are to help students provide a responsive, evidence-based service as a senior clinical or service lead in a health, voluntary sector or social care organization, by providing them with up to date knowledge about evidence-based practice and service transformation to equip them to respond to the challenges of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in the new commissioning environment, and be able to reflect on their own leadership skills. Specifically, within the framework of supporting transformation and change within children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing services, including developing a new workforce in line with government policy, at the end of the course, students will be able to:

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