Children's Wellbeing Practice (January start) Dip(Grad)

This course is for you if you’d like to train to work as a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP). The role is designed to support the Government’s priority of increasing access to and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people.

As a CWP, you’re trained to offer a range of low-intensity interventions based on the cognitive behavioural therapy approach and guided self-help. You’ll have the skills and knowledge to:

• carry out person-centred assessments and thorough risk assessments for children and young people
• follow evidence-informed collaborative decision-making processes
• provide information and evidence-based low-intensity cognitive-behavioural-informed interventions for children and young people with mild-to-moderate mental health difficulties through one-to-one work and group work
• refer children and young people with more complex needs to other services in the wider systems of care for further support, when appropriate, and signpost to other agencies
• adapt your practice to accommodate diversity, and improve access to evidence-based psychological practice with children and young people
• engage with children and young people and their families in participation work such as co-production activities
• run workshops on a range of topics for children and young people, parents/caregivers, health care staff and other staff in contact with children and young people.

This course is offered in partnership between the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, one of the largest psychology units in the UK, and the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Dip(Grad) or PGDip?

If you already have an undergraduate qualification, we also offer this course as a PGDip.