Postgraduate Diploma in Low Intensity Senior Practice
University of NorthamptonWaterside Campus, Northampton
Course overview
Ensuring the supply of staff trained to deliver high quality care for children and young people’s mental health (CYP MH) is critical to delivering the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) commitments. The availability of appropriate CYPMH supervision is emerging as a key limiting factor for any options of expansion of MHSTs and other CYP MH services beyond current plans. It is also becoming increasingly clear that in order to reach the access target of 345,000 by 23/24, and 100% coverage by the end of the LTP period, we will need to equip our workforce to offer a broader range of interventions to children, young people and families from a wider range of backgrounds and in spaces beyond the clinic and educational settings.
This two year programme will provide trainees an opportunity to extend the clinical skillset of their existing roles, enhance their specialisation for community and educational settings respectively, expand supervisory capacity, support workforce retention within the low intensity profession and enable widened participation and social mobility within this workforce.
Key highlights
- Extends the clinical skillset of existing low intensity CYP mental health roles
- Builds specialisation for community and educational settings
- Develops supervisory capacity for children and young people's mental health services
- Prepares practitioners to deliver broader interventions to families from diverse backgrounds
- Aligned with NHS Long Term Plan workforce commitments for CYP mental health
Entry requirements
Qualified WPCYP/EMHP with 1-years post qualification Full CBT training and BABCP accreditable or Previous work as a Supervising/Senior PWP e.g. in Adult IAPT or Significant CBT training within core profession (e.g. Psychologist).
Scholarships
Alumni PGCE Bursary Award
This will be a £500 cash payment that will not have to be repaid and does not affect the payment of a student’s maintenance loans.
Up to £500Chevening Scholarships
Sir John Lowther Scholarship
The Sir John Lowther Scholarship provides financial awards of up to £2,000 to a postgraduate student within the Arts.
Up to £1,000
Careers this course leads to
- Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioner
- Senior Wellbeing Practitioner for Children and Young People
- Clinical Supervisor in CYP Mental Health
- Mental Health Support Team Senior Practitioner
- Senior Low Intensity Practitioner
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Northampton, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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