Postgraduate Diploma in Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practice

Program Overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practice equips students with skills to support children, young people, and families experiencing mental health difficulties. Through modules that emphasize work-based learning, students develop the knowledge and ability to assess, engage, and deliver low-intensity interventions to address common mental health concerns. The program prepares students for employment in CAMHS settings where they will work with young people while studying under the support of academic staff and supervisors.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Postgraduate Diploma in Children and Young People’s Wellbeing Practice is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to support children, young people, and families experiencing common mental health difficulties.

Objectives:

• Equip students with the knowledge and skills to assess and engage children, young people, and families experiencing common mental health difficulties.
• Enable students to deliver effective low-intensity interventions informed by contemporary research and evidence in child and adolescent mental health.
• Foster effective collaboration with children, young people, and families, as well as other professionals in a multi-agency service context.
• Develop and enhance students' ability to reflect on their clinical practice through various methods, including reflective models, supervision, and observational feedback.

Outline:

Course Content:

• The program emphasizes the development of key skills through learning, teaching, and assessment strategies.
• Modules are structured to support students in developing existing skills and advancing their expertise in chosen areas.
• The program focuses on developing transferable skills, including critical evaluation, synthesis, and application of research and theory in practical organizational contexts.
• Students are encouraged to examine the tensions between theory and practice and to develop flexibility and creativity in applying research and theory to real-world contexts.
• The program emphasizes work-based learning, with students developing and assessing knowledge and skills in workshops, individual and online learning contexts, supported by academic staff and supervisors in learning sets in their places of work.

Course Details:

• The diploma consists of two, 30-credit modules assessed at Level 6.
• The modules shown relate to the academic year 24/25.

Teaching:

• The program utilizes a variety of teaching methods, including workshops, individual and online learning, and learning sets in the workplace.
• Students are supported by academic staff and supervisors.

Other:

• The program is a "Recruit to Train" program, meaning students will work in a relevant CAMHS setting in the voluntary sector, NHS, or a local authority setting while they study.
• The program is not open to international or self-funded applicants.
• Students will be required to hold a small clinical caseload of children with mild to moderate anxiety, behavioral difficulties, low mood, or self-harm, and work with their parents/carers and other professionals.
• Students will be required to run therapeutic groups, have access to wider community organizations, receive regular clinical supervision, video record sessions for supervision and assessment, and use approved CYP IAPT Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs).
• Students must complete and submit an Employer Declaration form signed by their manager with their online application.
• The course is fully funded by Health Education England (HEE), and students' participation is with the full support of their employer.