Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Children and Young People

Edge Hill University
Postgraduate PgDip (Initial Qualification) Part-time 2 Years MedicineCounselling, psychotherapy, and occupational therapy

About this course

With a balance of academic and work-based learning, this PGDip Senior Wellbeing Practitioner: Children and Young People course has been designed to provide opportunities for you to complete four academic modules, whilst maintaining a clinical role in practice.

This approach to study will allow you to identify key issues in practice by applying the theoretical skills learned from the course into practice.

You will be equipped with therapeutic knowledge and practice-based skills in both clinical and case management supervision. This will focus on developing your communication skills, leadership management and knowledge of interventions in learning disability and autistic spectrum disorder practice.

This course has been developed as a direct response to the Government’s mandate which seeks to improve access and quality of mental health support for children and young people. As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, you will add to this core team, as well as providing development opportunities for graduates of the PGDip Education Mental Health Practitioner for Children and Young People programme.

Throughout the course, you will be exposed to research informed, evidence based teaching, and a wealth of support from writing to wellbeing.

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

1172 Social services managers and directors
3219 Health associate professionals
2229 Therapy professionals
1231 Health care practice managers
3214 Complementary health associate professionals
3229 Welfare and housing associate professionals

Course Details

Qualification
PgDip (Initial Qualification)
Study Mode
Part-time
Duration
2 Years
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Ormskirk
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Medicine, Counselling, psychotherapy, and occupational therapy