Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health

Join us to study severe mental health problems and examine ways to build relationships with service users and their families and carers to identify needs and collaborate over care decisions.

You'll prepare for a rewarding career in a new role that forms part of the transformation of mental health services. We'll teach you all the skills you need as a mental health and wellbeing practitioner (MHWP) to support adults of all ages.

Learn alongside other adult service practitioners and therapists over 12 months. You'll be part of a local mental health service, playing a core part of an existing team in the community.

During our PGCert Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health course, you'll discover how to engage and assess adults with severe mental health problems so you can develop effective care plans. Then you'll collaborate with service users and their carers and families to deliver low-intensity, psychologically-informed interventions and make sure they have appropriate support.

Our combination of online study, in-person clinical skills training and practice-based learning align with the work-based component of Health Education England's mental health and wellbeing training programme.

Please note, this course is also available as an undergraduate University Advanced Certificate for which different entry criteria apply.

Across three modules, you'll gain deep insights into the specialist field of community-based adult mental health. From this, you'll develop the knowledge and expertise needed to positively impact community mental health as the area grows and evolves.

Developing the skills to locate and deploy resources in the community will be key. You'll support service users and their carers and families to access services from psychological therapies to self-harm and substance abuse support. At the same time, you'll learn how to protect your mental wellbeing, make risk assessments and work in a multi-disciplinary team as a wellbeing practitioner.

You'll learn how to deliver wellbeing-focused, psychologically informed interventions based on the best evidence available. These interventions will address common difficulties experienced by people with severe mental health problems by supporting connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment.

There are three ways you can apply:

1. Apply online:

If you are a prospective student and want to study a taught master’s degree, masters by research degree, postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma, you will usually need to apply directly online to Edge Hill University.

Please visit www.edgehill.ac.uk/study/apply/ which is categorised by academic department, the links will take you to the relevant application information for all of those programmes where you need to apply directly to Edge Hill University.

If you want to join a PGCE or PGDE at Edge Hill University, you will need to apply through the apply for teacher training service on GOV.UK.

Please note, applications to undergraduate initial teacher training programmes are made through UCAS and not GOV.UK. 

2. Via one of our agents or partners:

Our agent or partner will support you in making your application to Edge Hill University. Our agents and partners have had lots of experience helping people to apply to us and they will be able to guide you and make sure that you have included all the documents that we will need. Once you have submitted the application form and all the supporting documentation to our agent or partner they will send them to us.

To find your nearest representative please visit the “Find your country” (change link) page.

3. Apply direct:

If you have difficulty accessing apply online then please contact the admissions office for guidance.

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