Introduction to Family Interventions in Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder

• Diploma in Higher Education, Undergraduate degree or equivalent (for example nursing registration).
• Working in secondary care or specialist adult mental health services with at least two years’ experience of working with psychosis and/or bipolar disorder.
• Core mental health professional training or equivalent, for example nursing, OT, social work, clinical/counselling psychology, psychiatry, PGCE, peer support training.
• Extensive clinical practice in mental health.
• Able to actively contribute to the delivery of psychologically based interventions with people with psychosis and bipolar disorder.
• Line manager support to work with at least two families during the period of training and to deliver family interventions ongoing after completing the course.
• Line manager support to attend the teaching days and supervision sessions and to attend ongoing supervision and annual CPD to maintain practice.
• Reference from manager and clinical supervisor.
• Currently working in a role, appropriate for family interventions to be incorporated into the job description or job plan during and after training.
• You will be required to have completed statutory training such as information governance, safeguarding of adults and children and have a current DBS check.

For successful completion of the programme all students will need to practice alongside another family worker for the practice component of the course. We recommend that the co-worker should be another student on the course from the same team or trust, so we ask applicants to apply in pairs.