Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Children and Young People PGDip

Work in practice whilst enhancing your knowledge of interventions in learning disability and autistic spectrum disorder. You’ll graduate as a qualified practitioner, playing a key part in improving access and quality of mental health support for children and young people.

You should have a minimum 2:2 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent. You will also be expected to have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a CYP mental health setting post qualification.

You must be in suitable employment to be registered on the programme. You must be employed by your sponsoring organisation and as such, all responsibilities for employment are held by the employer.

You should have completed either Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children’s and Young Peoples’ Wellbeing Practitioners (CYPs) training and currently be employed in one of these roles.

You are required to be an experienced practitioner, as evidenced by 2 or more years working therapeutically, clinically, or consultatively within an educational or community mental health setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties. Applicants with less than two years’ post qualifying experience may be considered depending on previous experience.

Relevant qualifications for entry could include:-

Children and Young People’s Mental Health CYP/CYWP

PGDip Education Mental Health Practitioner

Applications will also be welcomed from those who have completed the PGCert Supervision: Children and Young People’s Mental Health & Wellbeing or the PGDip Education Mental Health Practitioner for Children and Young People supervisor programmes at Edge Hill University, whereby credits can be transferred towards the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner qualification through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

This programme is only available to students who reside and work in England due to the need for employment based in a local NHS trust or third sector organisation.

An interview will form part of the selection process.

A supporting statement from your manager will also be required as part of the application process.

International students require IELTS 6.5, with a score no lower than 6.0 in each individual component, or an equivalent English language qualification.

If your current level of English is half a band, one band, or one-and-a-half bands lower, either overall or in one or two elements, you may want to consider our Pre-Sessional English course.