Publish date: 23 November 2023
The PgCert teaching team are delighted to announce that applications are open again for Cohort 5 of the PgCert in Applied Psychological Interventions. The course starts on 25 January, the programme runs on Thursday mornings and the course concludes in December 2024.
Candidates who have already been interviewed and offered a place will shortly receive additional information from the Course Director.
If you wish to apply for a place our eligibility criteria is as follows:
- Candidates are registered practitioners with a minimum of 12 months post qualification clinical experience
- Candidates are employed by Mersey Care in the Mental Health Care Division and work directly with service users
- Candidates have the support of their line manager and will have completed all mandatory training.
Applications are screened by the selection panel and interviews take place via Microsoft Teams (more details are available in our FAQ sheet).
The programme is currently taught face to face at Hartley Hospital, Southport and is academically accredited by the University of Cumbria (Masters level 7).
If you do not have an undergraduate degree, please do not let that get in the way of your clinical development, we are passionate about enhancing academic potential and provide extensive academic tutorial support.
We are proud to share that we have a 100% first time pass rate for the practice assessment (OSCE). This tells us that our programme does exactly what it is designed to do, and we know that our graduates are equipped with the skills to provide collaborative psychologically informed care and treatment in their routine day-to-day practice. This is brilliant because the delivery of best practice evidence-based interventions is where the magic happens!
Cohort 4 Student Feedback
‘Couldn’t recommend this course more. Probably should be mandatory training! Provides essential knowledge and skills in working in a psychologically informed manner. Great course and great teaching too. The support was invaluable’.
Russell Grugel - Community Mental Health Nurse
‘I have enhanced my skills as a nurse practitioner within EIT through this course, having used the knowledge and skills gained to be able to conduct level 1 formulation and implement psychotherapeutic work with my service users. The course and skills acquired then inspired me to apply for the trainee CBT Therapist role within EIT and I was awarded the position’.
Karen Vernon - Trainee CBT Therapist EIT
‘I have enjoyed the PG Cert in Psychological Interventions greatly- it really sparked immense enthusiasm and it has enriched my practice as an older adult CMHN greatly. My practice is enhanced and I feel confident in terms of safe delivery of psychological approaches that have and continue to provide positive outcomes for the patients that I work with. I highly recommend the course and Julie is absolute fantastic and I cannot thank her and my clinical supervisor enough for providing me with this wonderful experience that is very relevant to my practice within Complex Care’.
Victoria Wareing, Community Mental Health Nurse
‘I really enjoyed the course, although I found it hard at times, I feel that I have learnt so many skills to enhance my work with patient’s experiencing difficulties with their mental health. I was feeling frustrated that I was limited on the interventions I could offer but now I have the skills to offer a more holistic approach. I’m really glad that I completed the course.’
Aimee Rumbelow – Occupational Therapist
‘I’ve learnt so many important skills from this course that has really enhanced my assessment style and 1:1 work for the mums I support. It is really eye opening and I’m so happy I had a chance to complete it’.
Sally Morgan-Wynne - Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner* (Inpatient services at start of programme)
‘Being a part of this course has enabled me to acquire essential new learning in which I have always felt fully supported in all aspects; to succeed and achieve alongside amazing colleagues from different teams and backgrounds. Both personally and professionally this journey has been life changing and I feel incredibly privileged to have had this opportunity’.
Jane Hargreaves – Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner* (CMHT practitioner at start of programme)
‘I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and found it challenging but very rewarding. I feel more confident as an EIT practitioner and have improved my skills in Level one formulation. I have seen improvement in the outcomes with some of my service users who are now able formulate themselves and have learned new coping strategies because of the additional skills I now have. I would highly recommend this course if you wanted to improve your service user outcomes and upskill your assessment, formulation, and intervention skills’.
Lynn Irving – Early Interventions
If the above feedback has ignited your interest and you are keen to develop your psychological intervention skills to achieve better outcomes for service users then please contact the course director Dr Julie Owen, julie