PGDip Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Training at University of Reading

Programme overview

A two-year postgraduate diploma that gives the theoretical knowledge and clinical experience to work as a supervisor and enhanced practitioner in a mental health service, following the National Curriculum for SWP training. It builds on low intensity CBT skills and trains students to supervise Children's Wellbeing Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners.

What you will study

Year 1 includes Supervision Training to Develop Competence (40 credits) and Enhanced Practice in Early Intervention (40 credits). Content covers enhanced interventions for OCD, self-harm, tics or Tourette's and school anxiety, working with neurodivergent clients and clients with learning disabilities, trauma-informed practice, and Clinical Skills and Case Management Supervision.

Career pathways

Prepares graduates to work as supervisors and enhanced practitioners in community mental health, CYPMH, primary care, local authority, voluntary sector and school settings.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Postgraduate route only: prior graduate or postgraduate level qualification and passed CWP or EMHP training; access to supervisees who are low-intensity practitioners; meet BABCP/BPS requirements for LI Supervisors including at least two years as a Child and Young Person's Mental Health professional. Two years' post-CWP/EMHP experience is highly advisable (one year accepted if the enhanced clinical practice year is completed first). Applicants cannot be studying elsewhere, and those who previously studied the same award elsewhere are not typically accepted.

Domestic applicants: GBP 11,500 for the whole programme. Self-funding or employer-sponsored, for the two years; NHS-funded trainees have fees covered Source

Intake: February

Duration: 2 years full-time

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