Short Course in Mental Health Skills for Healthcar

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98% of our Nursing graduates are in graduate-level employment (Guardian, 2024)

100% of Health graduates went into highly skilled employment or further education (HESA, 2023)

£5,000 a year available with the NHS bursary.

About the course

This course will cover a wide range of topics including risk assessment: monitoring for self-harm, suicide, relapse and deterioration in mental health, impact of mental health on families, friends and social network. Inter-professional working and collaboration with mental health and social services, use of screening tools such as Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and trauma screening questionnaire as well as how to manage your own anxieties. In addition, we also explore some elements of mental capacity and decision making as common medications used and their side effects.

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What will you study?

Mental Health Skills For Healthcare Practitioners

The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) and the NHS: People Plan for 20/21 highlight the need for healthcare professionals to advance their skills and knowledge surrounding mental health.

Mental health conditions and psychological distress often co-exist with physical illness and impact negatively upon quality of life/work and health outcomes.

This unit will equip practitioners with the core mental health skills to support themselves, staff/colleagues and patients or their carers with their mental health needs. No prior knowledge of mental health is required.

This unit adheres to The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (HEE, 2017).

Pillar 1: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6,1.8 and 1.9

Pillar 2: 2.6, 2.7 and 2.9.

How will you be assessed?

This course requires you to demonstrate the clinical Leadership and Management skills, attitudes and practices utilising two assessment methods:

Formative Assessment:

A 10 minute discussion focussing on a Mental Health assessment tool, looking at advantages and disadvantages of its use.

Summative Assessment:

Critical review (3000 words).
Complete a critical review of a National Policy that is driving mental health care changes linked to your area of expertise.

Careers

Equip practitioners with the to support patients or their carers mental health needs while treating their physical conditions
Prepare you to seek to answer the question “what knowledge and skills do non mental health professionals require to confidently meet the mental health needs of patients they encounter in their clinical practice?”
Develop strategies to assess risk and monitoring signs for self-harm, suicide, relapse and deterioration in mental health
Develop practices and roles that are appropriate to patient and service need underpinning key policy drivers on mental health, physical health, mental capacity and decision making

Entry Requirements

Registration with either The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Entry Requirements

Registration with either The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)Registration with either The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)