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.
If you have any questions please don鈥檛 hesitate to contact Debbie Buck on debbie.buck@beds.ac.uk
Course Leader - Debbie Buck
I have worked In the Mental Health Care sector for 38 years and have developed my skills in a variety of roles and settings. For the last four years I have been supporting the development of an Advanced Clinical Practitioner strategy and coordinating its roll out and delivery within a mental health trust. Through this I developed a keen interest in the development of nursing skills for myself and others. Leading by example, I qualified as a non-medical prescriber in Mental Health in 2004 and have worked as the Lead for Non-medical prescribing for several years.
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.
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 鈥渨hat knowledge and skills do non mental health professionals require to confidently meet the mental health needs of patients they encounter in their clinical practice?鈥
- 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
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
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International
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