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Stand Alone Module
Personal and Professional Development in Mental Health Practice
30 Credits
- Duration:
- One Semester
- Start Dates:
- September and February
- Attendance:
- One day a week on alternate weeks
- Venue:
- West London Mental Health Trust
- Cost:
- Available on request
- Key Contact:
- Peter Sandy
- Tel:
- 01494 522 141
- Email:
- peter.sandy@bucks.ac.uk
Is this course suitable for me?
This module is suitable for anyone working within mental health services that meet the necessary criteria and have the support of their organisation.
Overview
Within the field of mental health care professions are expected to develop an identity characterised by issues of accountability, ethical and legal perspectives and high quality skills of communication, documentation and record keeping as part of the process of providing effective quality care. Hence this module is designed to equip you with a range of reflective and analytical skills and to support you in forming conceptual frameworks for understanding your professional identity and organisational role.
Content
This module will provide the opportunity for you to reflect upon your own sense of personal and interpersonal awareness and an awareness of spheres of competence and how they are able to fulfil your professional identity. This needs to be achieved within the context of public involvement and user/carer led services.
The module will also enable you to develop a critical understanding of professional issues, the process and rationale supporting the need for clinical supervision and continuous professional development. You will explore issues of self development and the development of others; attitudes, values; the principles and practice of teamwork, change management and inter-professional working.
What will I learn?
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
- Communicate a developed conception of the professional practitioner and the organisation in which they work
- Critically debate the theory and principles of professionalism and contrast the values held by a range of other professionals, working practices, clinical documentation, record keeping, accountability and confidentiality.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of supervision, team working and change management.
- Integrate the relationship between an enhanced sense of self awareness and competence and demonstrate how an enhanced sense of self can enhance practice.
- Show an understanding of the need for evidence/research based practice.
Teaching and learning
This will vary from didactic to facilitative approaches; the methods adopted will range from lectures, discussions, videos, and joint project working and seminar presentations by students. Visiting speakers may be invited according to need and expertise. There can also be dialogue via email, video conferencing and phone as mutually agreed. The use of the internet will also be encouraged as a central feature of current information sources as well as the use of Blackboard.
Entry requirements
We’ll be looking for a minimum of six months’ post-registration experience within a relevant area of practice.
For Level 6 (3) study you’ll need 120 credits at Level 5 (2) or equivalent.
How to make an application
Please contact the Enquiries Team on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk
We hope to have a fully on-line application system shortly, but in the meantime, to apply for a course, please download and print these forms, completing them fully and posting back to the address below.
- Application_form (58.1 KB)
- Notes_for_Guidance (51.6 KB)
- Fee_Authoristaion_Form (61.1 KB)
- Clinical_Reference_Form (57.2 KB)
- Academic_Reference_Form (50.6 KB)
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Alternatively, if you call us on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk we can post you a hard copy application pack.
Students funded by the NHS or other employer
If the cost of your course is being funded by your employer, please contact your education lead or manager for guidance as to how they would prefer you to make an application.