Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health University Advanced Certificate

Edge Hill University

United Kingdom, Aberdeen

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Edge Hill University

United Kingdom , Aberdeen

Key Facts

Program Level

Certificate

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Edge Hill University

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2026

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Duration 1 year(s)

Next Intake September-2026

Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health University Advanced Certificate

About

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 University Advanced Certificate 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 NHS England’s mental health and wellbeing training programme.

Please note, this course is also available as a Postgraduate Certificate for which different entry criteria apply.

How should we support adults experiencing severe and enduring mental ill-health? Train as a mental health and wellbeing practitioner and learn how to deliver psychologically informed, low-intensity interventions as part of an innovative programme to transform mental health services.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Typical offer 104-112 UCAS Tariff points, for which no specific subjects are required, as well as at least five GCSEs at Grade C or Grade 4 or above (or equivalent), including GCSE English Language. We will also consider equivalent professional experience, or recognition of prior learning, and assess this on an individual basis.

You will also need to demonstrate the intrapersonal skills and values consistent with providing hopeful, person-centred care and show a commitment to working with people with complex mental health needs.

An interview forms part of the selection process.

If you accept a formal offer from Edge Hill University you will be required to apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure indicating that you meet the mandatory criteria of ‘Clearance to Work with Children and/or Vulnerable Adults’. This will be requested and checked by your NHS trust employer rather than the University.

Please note, the above examples may differ from actual offers made. A combination of A Level and BTEC awards may also be accepted.

If you have a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent), there is no maximum number of qualifications that we will accept UCAS points from. This includes additional qualifications such as Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), AS Levels that haven't been continued to A Level, and General Studies AS or A Level awards.

For further information on how you can meet the entry requirements

Career

Your future career

As a graduate with a University Advanced Certificate Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health, you’ll leave us with the skills to work as a Band 5 professional with options for career progression.

The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) set out a commitment to new and integrated primary and community mental health care models. You’ll have experience of intensive practice-based sessions and working across agencies. This means you’ll meet the mental health and wellbeing practitioner requirements that emerged in response to the plan.

This new community-based position will promote access to:

psychological therapies
improved physical health care
employment support
personalised and trauma-informed care
medicines management
support for self-harm and coexisting substance use

You’ll be ready for a career that includes maintaining and developing new services for people who have the most complex needs and offers the chance to undertake proactive work to address racial disparities.