Supervision: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Services PG Cert

UCL (University College London)

This programme is aimed at supporting individuals in their role as Site Supervisors of trainees registered on our other workforce development programmes delivered in collaboration with UCL at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF).About this degreeIn supporting the training needs of students registered on these government funded workforce programmes, there has been a clear need identified for Site Supervisors to be supported and trained to adequately oversee the work of trainees within all these various settings. The UCL Supervisors programme will help to extend the Supervisor's knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice and supervision models within CAMHS, community and school settings.The programme represents a departure from discipline-based supervision to supporting the development of competencies in supervisors to enable the delivery of a range of models in their services aligned to the evidence base for low intensity interventions.Who this course is forThis programme is aimed at students who are employed in sites where trainees are delivering the training programmes referred to above. Supervisors will be required to supervise at least one trainee practitioner on their site to meet requirements for this course. All supervisors will be required to supervise trainees weekly and to run supervision groups of trainees where numbers dictate. Applicants must have two years of clinical experience working within CYP Educational or Mental Health settings.The foundation of your careerOn successful completion of the programme, you will develop the necessary theoretical and practical skills and competencies needed to supervise students delivering the CYP IAPT evidence based interventions.