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Study Details: 1 year
This part-time interprofessional course is delivered in collaboration with Cheshire Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) Partnership and incorporates AMHP training. The aim of the course is to produce competent, independent mental health practitioners capable of complex decision making and working with high levels of professional responsibility.
Successful candidates will be eligible to be approved as an AMHP by their relevant Local Authority.
Our course structure and content shows a strong commitment to the integration of theory and practice, underpinned by a strong value base. The course will build on your graduate and professional experience by immersing you in the multifaceted and rapidly changing face of mental health practice.
The taught content is delivered by the Cheshire AMHP Partnership. Nationally recognised mental health speakers, specialist mental health practitioners, academics, and service users and carers contribute to the teaching on the course. The AMHP training component also involves undertaking a practice placement within a community mental health setting or equivalent.
Applicants must hold a recognised professional qualification in social work, nursing, occupational therapy or psychology and be either:
(a) a social worker registered with Social Work England or Social Care Wales;
(b) a first level nurse, registered in Sub-Part 1 of the Nurses' Part of the Register maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, with the inclusion of an entry indicating their field of practice is mental health or learning disabilities nursing;
(c) an occupational therapist registered in Part 6 of the Register maintained under article 5 of the Health Professions Order 2001;
(d) or either a psychologist registered in Part 14 of the register maintained by the Health and Care Professions Council; or a chartered psychologist who is listed in the British Psychological Society's Register of Chartered Psychologists and who holds a relevant practising certificate issued by the Society.
Successful candidates will be eligible to be approved as an AMHP by their relevant Local Authority.
Core Modules:
Mental Health Law and Policy (20 Credits)
Critical Perspectives on Mental Health (20 Credits)
Legal Processes in Mental Health Practice (20 Credits)
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