Masters Degree Description
The Low Intensity Psychological Interventions GCert/PGCert is a professional training course commissioned by NHS England for staff employed on trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) contracts.
The training programme is provided to staff who are employed on trainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) contracts in NHS or NHS-commissioned services. The course aims to ensure that graduates have reached the required competencies to deliver evidence-based, low-intensity psychological interventions informed by cognitive behavioural principles.
Trainees will be taught and assessed in the following key areas:
- Low intensity psychological assessment of common mental health problems, including risk assessment, treatment pathway suitability and setting clear treatment goals.
- Low intensity psychological interventions for common mental health problems such as depression, generalised anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder.
- Working inclusively in clinical practice, with opportunities to develop the reflective capacity required to examine the role of culture, values and belief systems, and how these are important in the therapeutic process.
Entry Requirements
All applicants (Level 6 and Level 7) will also require:
- evidence of relevant mental health experience, for example working with people with common mental health problems in an employed or formal volunteer capacity
- evidence of a broad understanding of common mental health problems, and the skills required to form effective helping relationships with those suffering in this context
- course-related employment or placement within an NHS Trust or equivalent healthcare setting. This will usually be an NHS-commissioned Talking Therapies service, must be attended three days per week (or less for those on an adapted training route for part-time employees) and include clinical and case management supervision
- confirmation of satisfactory employment-related checks (occupational health and DBS)5.
Please note that NHS England dictates that individuals who have completed other NHSE-funded training in the psychological professions must remain in their role for at least two years before applying for further funded training:
Fees
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